Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> May 3, 2004

Gary Shangold – Novadel Pharma Inc (nvdl)

GARY A. SHANGOLD is the President and Chief Executive Officer of NovaDel Pharma Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company which has a proprietary technology for delivering drugs via lingual spray for rapid absorption from the oral mucosal membranes. Dr. Shangold received a BA cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in his major field of Social Behavior. He graduated from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons with a Doctor of Medicine degree. He then completed his residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Miami (Jackson Memorial Hospital) and a fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles County Medical Center). He is board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and subspecialty-boarded in Reproductive Endocrinology. Following the completion of his training, Dr. Shangold held the positions of Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. In 1991, he moved from academia into the pharmaceutical industry as the Medical Director for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Infertility at Serono Laboratories. He subsequently moved to Johnson & Johnson as Senior Director of Gynecologic and Reproductive Clinical Research, and then becoming the Contraception Global Product Team Leader, at the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute. Later he was promoted to the position of Vice President and Regulatory Head of Drug Development at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC. From 1991 through 2003, Dr. Shangold was affiliated with the Harvard University School of Medicine as Associate Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology and as a Clinical Associate in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Profile
TWST: Can you start us off with and introduction to the business and the

group at NovaDel. What is NovaDel Pharma?

Dr. Shangold: NovaDel Pharma is a drug delivery company that has a

technology