Getting Personal With Boston Scientific's Global CMO Ken Stein: Taking The Long View To Innovate, Serve Patients
‘My advice for other people in making that kind of transition into a chief medical officer type role is you're never going to know more business than the CEO, but you’re going to know more medicine than her or him.’
Executive Summary
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 talked with Ken Stein, Boston Scientific’s global chief medical officer about his own diagnosis with atrial fibrillation and advice for others living with the disease, innovative technologies in development at Boston Scientific, and some of his proudest and more challenging times on the job, as well as his advice for other physicians who are contemplating a move into the corporate world.