1. Melinda Gates, cochair and trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Nimbly throwing the foundation's bucks behind both big-picture, tech-oriented, long-term solutions and modest, immediate action plans, Melinda Gates is a formidable force in the fight for health care in developing nations.
2. Anthony Atala, director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine The first doctor to bioengineer a human bladder and successfully implant it in a human, Anthony Atala and his staff are now busy growing 22 different tissues--from heart valves to fingers--planting them at the forefront of this (ahem) growing field.
3. Jay Parkinson, founder, Hello Health Mixing non-conventional payment structure (monthly subscription fee, PayPal but no insurance) and eyebrow-raising communications (e-mail, instant messaging, even house visits), Jay Parkinson's Hello Health offers a wildly popular alternative to the current model of high insurance costs and eight-minute office visits.
4. James Heywood, cofounder and chairman, PatientsLikeMe Following his brother's diagnosis with Als, Heywood launched PatientsLikeMe--think of...
2. Anthony Atala, director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine The first doctor to bioengineer a human bladder and successfully implant it in a human, Anthony Atala and his staff are now busy growing 22 different tissues--from heart valves to fingers--planting them at the forefront of this (ahem) growing field.
3. Jay Parkinson, founder, Hello Health Mixing non-conventional payment structure (monthly subscription fee, PayPal but no insurance) and eyebrow-raising communications (e-mail, instant messaging, even house visits), Jay Parkinson's Hello Health offers a wildly popular alternative to the current model of high insurance costs and eight-minute office visits.
4. James Heywood, cofounder and chairman, PatientsLikeMe Following his brother's diagnosis with Als, Heywood launched PatientsLikeMe--think of...
- 6/15/2009
- by Kate Rockwood
- Fast Company
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