ADVISORY/Congresswoman Eshoo to Discuss Healthcare, High-Tech Issues At Bay Area Biomedical Research Forum.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K ADVISORY...for Monday (April 24) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Anna Georges Eshoo (born December 13, 1942) is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 14th District of California, the heart of Silicon Valley (see map). will discuss policies important to the future of California's biotech and medical device companies, and other high-tech industries, at the California Healthcare Institute (CHI) Policy Perspective luncheon April 24 at Guidant Corp. in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. . CHI Chairman, Ginger Graham, group chairman of Guidant Corp. will speak at the luncheon as well as Paul Yock yock Slang intr.v. yocked, yock·ing, yocks To laugh or joke, especially boisterously. n. A loud laugh or joke. [Imitative.] , M.D., director, Medical Device Network; co-director, Institute for Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering An interdisciplinary field in which the principles, laws, and techniques of engineering, physics, chemistry, and other physical sciences are applied to facilitate progress in medicine, biology, and other life sciences. , Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . Rep. Eshoo's talk will be followed by an open roundtable forum with leaders from the Bay Area's biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. industry including ALZA, Chiron, Roche Bioscience, Elan Pharmaceuticals and Genentech. CHI Policy Perspective is a nonpartisan forum for policy makers and biomedical industry leaders to discuss today's policies affecting biomedical research and healthcare. The CHI Policy Perspective series is sponsored by Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol .
WHAT: Congresswoman Anna Eshoo to Address Bay Area Biomedical
Innovators
WHO: Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, member, House Commerce Committee
Ginger Graham, group chairman, Guidant Corporation Paul
Yock, M.D., director, Medical Device Network; co-director,
Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Stanford University
David Gollaher, Ph.D., president and CEO, California
Healthcare Institute Bay Area biomedical industry leaders
including ALZA, Chiron, Genentech, Roche Bioscience and Elan
Pharmaceuticals Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP
WHEN: Monday, April 24, 2000
Luncheon -- Noon
WHERE: Guidant Corp.
3200 Lakeside Drive, Santa Clara
TICKETS: $35 for CHI Members; $45 for guests
Press need to register in advance by calling Renaldo Juanso at Guidant 408/845-3185. |
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