Simon Pimstone

Dr Pimstone is founder and CEO of XYON Health Inc., a privately held Canadian Company delivering innovative healthcare solutions for men and women with hair loss.

He has also held various management, board, and advisory roles at companies including Xenon Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: XENE), Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals (TSX: EPRX), Alpha9 Oncology and Kokua Pharmaceuticals.

In addition to these roles, Dr. Pimstone has served on the boards of several industry and healthcare associations. He was former chair of LifeSciences BC and the Providence Healthcare Research Trust, as well as being former vice-chair of BIOTECanada. He has also previously chaired the Canadian federal government State of Nation Report.

Dr. Pimstone received his MD from the University of Cape Town (MBChB, 1991) and is an internal medicine specialist (FRCPC, UBC, 2001). Prior to his specialization, he trained as a clinical research fellow with the Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia and obtained his PhD in cardiovascular genetics through the University of Amsterdam (1998).

Dr. Pimstone also serves as a consultant physician at the UBC Medical and Cardiology Clinic at UBC Hospital in Vancouver.

Dr. Pimstone has received a number of awards and is widely published.