John Abele is the Founder Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation, a 19,000 employee, $8 billion world wide company that is a pioneer and leader in the field of "Less Invasive Medicine."
Abele holds numerous patents and has published and lectured extensively on the technology of various medical devices and on the technical, social, economic, and political trends and issues affecting healthcare.
His major interests are science literacy for children, education, and the process by which new technology is invented, developed, and introduced to society. Current activities include chair of the FIRST Foundation which works with high school kids to make being science-literate cool and fun and development of The Kingbridge Centre and Institute, a conferencing institution whose mission is to research, develop, and teach improved methods for interactive conferencing: problem solving, conflict resolution, strategic planning and new methods for learning.
John Abele is a graduate of Amherst College.
The other side of that coin if you look at you know, kind of the entrepreneurial world of the capitalistic system, we go out, we try to identify needs that aren't being met that if we fulfill them, would satisfy a significant number of people and the medical world, it seems to me, is just exploding ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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