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Leadership in the Life Science Industry with Peter Farrell

$20-$40

"Leadership in the Life Science Industry" with Peter Farrell, founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO, ResMed

Hit the glass ceiling? It is not always easy to see the barriers in your career. Wouldn’t it be good to hear from your CEO what he really wants? Or understand how another CEO builds his management team?

Peter Farrell of ResMed illuminates these questions for us:

• What are you looking for in a leader for your team?
• What are the skills necessary to be a leader?
• How do you create your company culture?
• How do you find a mentor? How can one be a mentor?
• When mission, vision, and leadership are not aligned, how do you get them back on track?
• What is the development plan of a CEO?

Peter Farrell, Ph.D., has been ResMed’s Chairman of the Board and company director since 1989. He served as CEO from 1989-2008. From ResMed’s inception until 2004, Farrell was also ResMed’s president. From 1984-1989, Farrell served as vice president of research and development at subsidiaries of Baxter International and as managing director of the Baxter Centerfor Medical Research Pty Ltd. from 1985- 1989.

Farrell was named 1998 San Diego Entrepreneur of the Year for Health Sciences, Australian Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001 and US National Entrepreneur of the Year for 2005 in Health Sciences. In August 2000, he was named vice chairman of the executive council of the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine and will become Chairman in June 2010. Farrell is also a director of NuVasive, Inc. and the non-executive chair of QRxPharma.

A light dinner, beer, wine and soft drinks will be provided.

$35 with pre-registration, $20 student; $40 onsite, $25 student

http://www.pgc200.org/2010/01/peterfarrell-resmed/