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Director of Research and Prevention, PORTLAND CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE
Chairman of board of directors, LEGACY HEART INSTITUTE
Why you're in this business: Heart disease is the number one cause of death for American men and women. The honor and responsibility of impacting the quality of life for so many makes health care and cardiology one of the best "businesses" in the world. We health care providers don't usually think of ourselves as classic businesspeople.
Smartest career move: Perhaps moving back home to Portland, but also joining with Dr Brad Titus in 1995 to develop a model of cardiovascular medicine across the entire continuum of excellence. We merged our primary cardiology practice at Portland Adventist Hospital with the tertiary-highly specialized care available at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital. This model allowed us to grow with our vision of...