7.14.2007

Confessions Of A Serial Entrepreneur: A Conversation With Alfred E. Mann -- Coye 25 (3): w104 -- Health Affairs

Confessions Of A Serial Entrepreneur: A Conversation With Alfred E. Mann -- Coye 25 (3): w104 -- Health Affairs: "INTERVIEW
Confessions Of A Serial Entrepreneur: A Conversation With Alfred E. Mann
Molly Joel Coye

In this wide-ranging interview, Alfred Mann describes the activities of several medical technology enterprises with which he is engaged. Several of them are companies that he formed; one is a nonprofit foundation, the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering, founded to establish research-oriented institutes on a dozen university campuses and support their work in developing marketable innovations. Mann discusses the need to consider the cost implications of technology, in the context of U.S. health system reform, and describes several important innovations that have emerged from his companies over the years."