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Dori Pap: dori.pap@ile.gatech.edu
Summary Sentence: IMPACT Speaker Series presents Mike Mussallem, CEO and Chairman, Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
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MussalemMichael A. Mussallem has been chairman and chief executive officer since 2000 when the company spun-off from Baxter International. Prior to his current position, Mussallem held a variety of positions at Baxter from 1979 until 2000 with increasing responsibility in engineering, product development and general management. Currently, Mussallem serves on the boards and executive committees of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) and the Healthcare Leadership Council. He is an advisory board member for the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics at the University of Southern California and a trustee of the University of California, Irvine Foundation. Mussallem is the former chairman of the board of directors of both AdvaMed and the California Healthcare Institute (CHI). Mussallem received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and also an honorary doctorate degree from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Mussalem will speak at Georgia Tech's IMPACT Speaker Series on Monday, March 28, 2016.
About the Impact Speaker Series:
Since 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from "building a venture around intellectual capital" to "successful entrepreneurship in large organizations" and "socially responsible leadership". The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and the Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit leaders. The lecture series is sponsored by the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Scheller College of Business, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.
The series is free and open to the public, reservations are not required.
