Pierre R. Theodore is Vice President, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Enterprise-wide Research & Development. In this role, he is responsible to help accelerate innovation, advance the standard of care within early stage science and elevate existing and adjacent medical technologies. Additionally, Dr. Theodore is a Health Sciences Associate Professor of Surgery at The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.

After obtaining an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Princeton University, Pierre received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Virginia. He completed general surgical and cardiothoracic surgical training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Hôpital Universitaire Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris. Pierre completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital Transplant Biology Research Center, Harvard Medical School.