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Medtech 100: For Edwards Lifesciences' Mike Mussallem, Inspiring People Has Been A Way Of Life

Whatever the new technology, for Mike Mussallem, it always had to start and end with the patient

 
• By Ashley Yeo and Marion Webb

Edwards Lifesciences CEO Mike Mussallem has a unique and long-standing perspective of what the medtech industry should be and do. In over two decades, he has built the structural heart disease and critical care monitoring company into one of the global medtech industry’s most effective innovators. That legacy is sure to last after his retirement as CEO in spring 2023.  

Michael Mussallem, Edwards Lifesciences CEO
• Source: Edwards Lifesciences (BEN CAMACHO)

Mike Mussallem has a long memory and a hold on detail from history as if it were yesterday. He recalls the personal dilemmas he had on deciding whether or not to close research programs – some of the “smaller” decisions a CEO must make – just as readily as how he felt during the milestone moments of Edwards Lifesciences Corp.’ evolution.

Those started in 2000, when Edwards Lifesciences Corp. was spun out from Baxter Healthcare Corp.. That was a ground-breaking moment for a company with “big dreams of building something...

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