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...multinational drug firm is a high-wire act. When you aren't struggling to satisfy investors, you're justifying the high cost of your products to consumers. Daniel Vasella, CEO of the Swiss company Novartis, seems to pull off the act effortlessly. Urbane, understated and uncommonly charming, Vasella--a physician by training--speaks three languages fluently and flits easily among the varied social and commercial cultures in which his company operates. He's Swiss and proud of it, but his business sense is quintessentially American...
Vasella has not practiced medicine since he started his business career at age 34, but he brings a physician's sensibility to his job. Still, he doesn't run a philanthropy. Thanks to aggressive marketing in the U.S., Novartis' sales surged 19% last year to nearly $25 billion, as it became the world's fifth largest drug company and the fastest growing of the industry's giant firms. --By Unmesh Kher
...first female director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she helms an agency that is the nation's front line of defense against invasions from the world of microbes both natural and, with the threat of bioterrorism, increasingly man-made. A careful, soft-spoken physician, Gerberding first drew attention for her honest, concise handling of the anthrax attacks in 2001. Since getting the top CDC post a year later, she has spearheaded the creation of the Emergency Response Center, a high-tech war room that allows the CDC to link to and share information with scientists from...
...never had a grand sense of mission to "save the world," as he puts it. Instead, he was motivated by a fascination with population-size health problems--infectious diseases that claim not handfuls of victims but tens of thousands if left untreated. What lured this Korean-born physician from working with leprosy patients in Hawaii to heading up the immunization program at the World Health Organization (WHO) and led to his being appointed the agency's top executive last year was the notion that as devastating as these diseases could be, they could also be stopped. "What I learned from...
...health, too many outside activities, complicated worries or half a dozen other causes. He is sent to a physician of body or of mind to be straightened out. On the other hand, if a man who tests low receives top marks in his examinations, the test and the course are scrutinized with equal care...