La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co. announced that Lakhmir S. Chawla, M.D., will be joining the company as Chief Medical Officer, effective July 1, 2015. Dr. Chawla is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University, where he has dual appointments in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and in the Department of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension.

Dr. Chawla is also currently the Chief of the Division of Intensive Care Medicine at the Washington D.C. Veterans Affairs Medical Center.