AdvaMed CEO pursues innovation in advocacy, meetings, creating value
- March 31, 2017 |
- LORI SHARN BRYANT
Whitaker looks for alliances and data to help advance industry's goals; annual conference gets new name to draw nonmembers Scott Whitaker only has to glance at his iPhone to reaffirm he's in the right job. Whitaker, CEO of the Advanced Medical Technology Association since April 2016, has a teen daughter with Type 1 diabetes. When Eva was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease seven years ago, at age 8, Whitaker said she required six or more shots of insulin each day and frequent finger pricks to measure her blood sugar level. Today, she wears an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor that sends information to her phone and her parents' phones. "That's medical… Read More