Rich heads Global Field Medical at Amgen, encompassing medical science liaisons across all therapeutic areas as well as Global Field Medical Excellence.  He has 20+ years of Biotech and Pharma experience ranging from discovery research to product launches and has spent most of his career building and evolving MSL teams.  He has also led US Medical Capabilities responsible for the US Med Info call center, REMS communications and US medical events.
Rich has been at Amgen since 2003 and prior to that worked for Organon Sanofi-Synthelabo LLC and as a staff scientist in discovery research for Icogen.

He holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and completed an NIH post-doctoral fellowship in Hemoglobinopathies at the University of Washington, where he was a senior fellow in the division of Medical Genetics.