Exec Chat: XMed 2019: Intuitive Foundation's President Catherine Mohr's Team Jackets Read 'Plan For 100 Years'

“If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children." - Confucius

At this week's Exponential Medicine conference, Medtech Insight sat down with the Intuitive Foundation's president, Catherine Mohr, to learn about her ambitions for the foundation and continued innovation at Intuitive Surgical.

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Catherine Mohr, who recently made the transition from Intuitive Surgical Inc.'s VP of strategy to president of the Intuitive Foundation, invoked Confucius in describing the foundation's long-term efforts – to build a global, data-based network to train the future surgeons needed to care for millions of new patients accessing health care in Asia and Africa. (Also see "Rising Procedure Volumes Push Intuitive Surgical Third-Quarter Earnings Above Forecast " - Medtech Insight, 21 October, 2019.)

During her presentation on 11 November at the Exponential Medicine conference in San Diego, Mohr said 88% of the next billion entrants into the global middle-class by 2029 will be...

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