Dr. Santosh T. Varghese, M.D. has been Chief Medical Officer at VIVUS Inc. since January 2016. Dr. Varghese served as Vice President of Medical & Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance and QA at VIVUS Inc. since October 2013 to December 2015. He served as Head of Medical Affairs & Pharmacovigilance and Vice President of VIVUS Inc. until July 20, 2015. He served as Vice President of Medical Affairs at VIVUS Inc., since March 2012. At VIVUS, he establishes the medical affairs group for Qnexa and provides scientific and medical brand strategy to the commercial team and he also supervises and provides direction to field based teams and assume responsibility for safety and interaction with the FDA. Previously, Dr. Varghese served as Elan Corporation, where he was responsible for the global and U.S. medical affairs bio-neurology therapeutic group for Tysabri. Prior to Elan, he built and led medical affairs teams responsible for large brands, such as Allegra and Nasacort at Aventis/Sanofi-Aventis; Clarinex/Claritin, Nasonex, Integrilin, Zetia, Vytorin and other compounds within Schering-Plough/Merck.