| Richard Klasco, MD
Dr. Klasco is the Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs/Editor-in-Chief, Healthcare Business of Thomson Reuters, parent company of the business divisions of PDR, Micromedex, MedStat, CenterWatch, Physician's World, and Gardiner-Caldwell. Dr. Klasco joined Thomson in 1996 and has served as Vice President of Medical Affair, Thomson Micromedex, Chief Medical Officer, Thompson Micromedex and then Thomson Healthcare before assuming his current position in which he is the principal spokesperson on medical matters for the business.
Dr. Klasco is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and in emergency medicine at Denver General Hospital where he was Chief Resident. He continues to practice emergency medicine in Denver, where in 1999, he cared for the critically injured victims of the Columbine High School shootings.
Dr. Klasco is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine. His interests include medication safety, adverse drug effects, and drug development. He has lectured extensively at academic medical centers and testified before Congress. In 2004 Colorado's Governor Bill Owens appointed him to the Colorado Poison Control Oversight Board.
Prior to becoming a physician, Dr. Klasco was a studio musician in Los Angeles, performing on television shows such as The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
