Getting Personal With Edwards’ Mike Mussallem: Hard Work, Giving Back And Changing The Practice Of Medicine
‘Let’s be givers, let's give back to the communities more than we ever take. Let's have the communities that we live and work in say, boy, I'm glad Edwards is here. They make us stronger.’
In this new series titled Getting Personal, we talk to new and veteran senior executives about their journeys to corporate leadership, their motivations, passions, and the peaks and valleys of running a medtech company. Medtech Insight sat down with Mike Mussallem, CEO of Edwards Lifesciences, the leading seller of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) devices, at the company’s Irvine, CA-based headquarters.
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