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Best CEOs: Richard Gergasko left legacy of innovation, philanthropy at Texas Mutual
Richard Gergasko is the 2023 Legacy Award winner in the Best CEO Awards. Read about the change he brought to this huge provider of workers’ compensation provider, which writes more than $1 billion in premiums per year, and get his reflections on a long career.
‘Luck and timing’: Serial entrepreneur Dr. Neal Walker on what it takes to successfully launch a life sciences company
Dr. Neal Walker has been been involved in the creation of about a dozen life sciences companies over the past 25-plus years, including successful exits from companies that have raised almost $1 billion. At the Pennsylvania Life Sciences conference, he shared some of his tips. Here are the takeaways.
Some Birmingham leaders think it’s time to pursue big pharma as the industry slowly migrates to the Southeast
As the industry slowly migrates to the Southeast, Birmingham's robust health care activity has the potential to attract major pharmaceutical companies.
Best CEOs: Rich Gergasko left legacy of innovation, philanthropy at Texas Mutual
Richard Gergasko is the 2023 Legacy Award winner in the Best CEO Awards. Read about the change he brought to this huge provider of workers’ compensation provider, which writes more than $1 billion in premiums per year, and get his reflections on a long career.
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences selects dean
A local graduate school jointly operated by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the UTHealth Science Center at Houston has selected its next dean after a search began over a year ago. Click through to learn more about the school and its new leader.
What Fearless Fund means to Atlanta’s businesswomen of color
They fear a lawsuit may halt the work of a fund that provides so much more than access to capital.
Striking Kaiser Permanente workers on why they are on the picket line
Nearly 75,000 workers have walked off the job across the country, including 4,000 in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
Q&A: U.S. Bank exec Joe Persichetti leads company’s new health care business
U.S. Bancorp is making a sizable investment in the fast-growing small and mid-sized health care practices market. To run the business, it hired Joe Persichetti, who has been in health care banking for nearly three decades.
UChicago spinout Flow Medical brings in startup vet Jennifer Fried as CEO
Flow Medical has brought in a new CEO to help it move to commercialization and step outside the University of Chicago's ecosystem.
Acquisition will help OP company target burgeoning health care need: opioid addiction
The company's acquisition addresses a dire need in the U.S. — treatment of opioid addiction — and adds 80 employees. The now combined companies also can benefit from each other's expertise and software capabilities.