WellPoint CEO Leonard Schaeffer to Receive First Leadership in Innovation" Award
ABL Organization to Honor Healthcares Innovators at Sixth Annual Awards and Event
The first-ever Leadership in Innovation" Award will be presented to Leonard Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO of WellPoint, by the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization, on June 16th in Newport Beach, California, as ABL hosts its 6th Annual Innovations in HealthcareSM Awards and Event. This event showcases California companies and products that were selected by ABLs Technology Advisory Board from an array of organizations nominated for their innovative medical products, systems, processes and services designed to improve healthcare outcomes, while reducing the cost of providing quality care. Three of these honorees will be selected at the June 16th event to receive Platinum, Gold and Silver Abby" Awards.
Orange, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2004 -- The first-ever Leadership in Innovation" Award will be presented to Leonard Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO of WellPoint, by the Adaptive Business Leaders (ABL) Organization, on June 16th in Newport Beach, California, as ABL hosts its 6th Annual Innovations in HealthcareSM Awards and Event.
Selected by BusinessWeek magazine as one of the "Top 25 Managers of the Year" and by Worth magazine as one of the "50 Best CEOs in America," Schaeffer will headline the ABL event that honors Californias innovators who are dramatically improving the way healthcare is delivered. Since taking over Blue Cross of California 18 years ago, Schaeffer and his team have unleashed a steady stream of payer innovations that have been embraced in the marketplace, providing millions with access to quality, cost-effective healthcare.
ABLs Innovations in Healthcare showcases companies and products that were selected by ABLs Technology Advisory Board from an array of organizations nominated for their innovative medical products, systems, processes and services designed to improve healthcare outcomes, while reducing the cost of providing quality care. Three of these honorees will be selected at the June 16th event to receive Abby Awards. This years nominees are:
- Aperio Technologies, Inc., Dirk Soenksen, CEO -- Vista, CA
- Applied Molecular Evolution, William Huse, M.D., Ph.D., CEO -- San Diego, CA
- CardioDynamics, Michael Perry, CEO -- San Diego, CA
- DestinationRx, Michael Cho, CEO -- Los Angeles, CA
- Los Angeles Free Clinic, Abbe Land, CEO -- Los Angeles, CA
- RelayHealth Corporation, Giovanni Colella, M.D., CEO -- Emeryville, CA
- Resolution Health, Harry Soza, Founder -- San Jose, CA
- Silverado Senior Living, Loren Shook, CEO -- San Juan Capistrano, CA, teamed with InTouch Health, Yulun Wang, Ph.D., CEO -- Goleta, CA
- WorkWell Systems, George Carpenter, CEO -- Aliso Viejo, CA
ABL Organization is a membership organization for CEOs and Presidents of healthcare and technology firms. Attendance at Innovations in Healthcare is open to ABL Members, as well as senior executives of therapeutic, diagnostic, medical device and healthcare information and services firms. At the events conclusion, attendees will vote for who will take home Platinum, Gold and Silver Abby" Awards.
For more information about this event, the nominees, and/or the ABL Organization, please contact Mimi Grant, President of ABL Organization, at (714) 245-1425.
About the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization:
For over 20 years, the ABL Organization has facilitated forums and leveraged connections enabling the continuing development of healthcare and technology chief executives. Through focused, confidential, monthly Round Tables and regularly-scheduled Conferences, Members help each other capitalize on market trends and generally assure they are well positioned for corporate and personal success.
About Leonard Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO of WellPoint:
Leonard helms the nation's second largest publicly traded healthcare company, with $21.2 billion in revenue, serving 15.4 million medical members, 46 million specialty members, and employing more than 20,000 associates in over 90 offices nationwide. Under Leonards leadership, WellPoint has been selected by FORTUNE magazine as America's "Most Admired Health Care Company;" named to BusinessWeeks BW50" ranking of top performing public companies in the S&P 500 ( #3 in 2004); named by Forbes magazine as America's best large health insurance company and one of America's Top Public Companies for Executive Women. Leonard was selected by BusinessWeek magazine as one of the "Top 25 Managers of the Year" and by Worth magazine as one of the "50 Best CEOs in America."
For more information about this event and/or ABL Organization, contact:
Mimi Grant, President
ABL Organization
(714) 245-1425
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