Whit Tingley, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Tingley joined Tenaya as chief medical officer in December 2018. Previously, he served at Cytokinetics as vice president of clinical development, cardiology, and at Genentech as therapeutic area lead for cardiovascular and metabolism research and early development. Between 2009 and 2017, he held medical director and group medical director roles with increasing responsibility at Genentech and Roche. Whit formerly was adjunct associate professor of medicine in the cardiology division at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and cared for patients as an attending cardiologist in the UCSF Cardiology Faculty Practice.

Dr. Tingley earned an B.A. degree from Brown University and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed internship and residency programs at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, a cardiology fellowship at UCSF and post-doctoral research at the Gladstone Institutes.