In late January 2020, I attended the American Society for Microbiology annual biothreats conference. The plenary session with Dr. Anthony Fauci turned out to be his first public remarks on the novel coronavirus (nCoV2019), soon known as COVID-19. Most people in the room, some of us veterans of the war on HIV, understood there was a brutal […]

“Develop a small network of trusted informal advisors and mentors to be an independent sounding board as you address the challenges of this new role.” –Pete Mariani, CFO, Axogen Like many of his finance leader peers, Pete Mariani credits a senior operational role with helping him to plant both feet on the path to CFO […]

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a major shift in medical education. Since students were not classified as critical employees of hospitals, it became difficult for them to gain clinical hours with patients. With soaring demand for medical professionals to address the pandemic and students without access to hands-on training in hospitals, a new technique rose to prominence: […]