Peter G. Traber

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Dr. Peter G. Traber is the current President and Chief Executive Officer of Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). BCM is no longer associated with the Baylor University.

Traber succeeded Ralph Feigin to become the fourth president of BCM in March of 2003. He was previously employed as Senior Vice President for Clinical Development & Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at GlaxoSmithKline. He received his M.D. from Wayne State Medical School in Michigan in 1981, and he subsquently trained as a gastroenterologist, after completing an internal medicine residency at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago.

In 2003, Traber was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Peter Traber has a brother, Jim Traber, who formerly played for the Baltimore Orioles, and a sister, Theresa Traber, Esq., who works as a civil rights attorney in California.

[edit] College President's pay

According to the New York Times article on November 20, 2006, Dr. Traber is one of the highest paid college president's with an annual pay of over 1.3 million dollars.[1]