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Personalized Healthcare Transforming Healthcare

With Mara G. Aspinall, President and CEO, Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. Global Head of Roche Tissue Diagnostics

FRIDAY, MARCH 9 T H 2012
ORO VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB

SOUTHERN ARIZONA WELCOMES MARA G . ASPINALL

Mara Aspinall, new to Tucson, is an expert in personalized medicine, with extensive industry and public policy experience.
See her full Bio (attached).

Schedule of Events 7:00 am Registration and Networking 7:30 am Breakfast 8:00 am Speaker Tickets Advanced Registration: $25.00 Registration after 3/7/2012: $30.00 Cash, Credit, or Check payable to BIO-SA Please RSVP to lesburtn@gmail.com by Wednesday, March 7th 2012 Address & Directions to Oro Valley Country Club 300 W. Greenock Drive, OV 85737 Heading North on Oracle Road, go 4 miles past Ina Road, turn left on El Conquistador Way. Turn right on Valle del Oro, then right on Greenock. OVCC is on the NW corner of Valle del Oro and Greenock.

Questions?

Please contact Leslie Burton: lesburtn@gmail.com

Personalized Healthcare Transforming Healthcare

With Mara G. Aspinall, President and CEO, Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. Global Head of Roche Tissue Diagnostics

FRIDAY, MARCH 9 T H 2012
ORO VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB

SOUTHERN ARIZONA WELCOMES MARA G . ASPINALL

Mara G. Aspinall
Mara joined Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. as President and CEO in September, 2011. Previously, Mara spent twelve years with Genzyme Corporation where she held senior leadership roles including President of Genzyme Genetics and President of Pharmaceuticals. While at Genzyme, her considerable international experience spanned operations, R&D, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships, product and market positioning and expansion, as well as financial planning and performance. A frequent biotech industry speaker, Mara has spearheaded industry-wide outreach initiatives to better educate the health care community and policymakers about diagnostics, genomics, and personalized medicine. Most recently she founded Diagnostic Insights, a non-profit organization dedicated to non-partisan education on the importance of diagnostics in improving patient care. She is passionate about the fight against cancer and spent 15 years on the Board of Dana Farber Cancer Institute, chairing the Science Committee. She was a member of the Secretary of Health and Human Services' former Advisory Council on Genetics in the Obama and Bush Administrations. She is also a Co-Founder of the European Personalized Medicine Association. Mara co-authored Realizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine in Harvard Business Review, and has written several articles, case studies and editorials on healthcare topics. In 2010 she was named one of the 100 Most Inspiring People in Life Sciences by PharmaVOICE magazine. Mara holds an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor's of Arts in International Relations from Tufts University.

Questions?

Please contact Leslie Burton: lesburtn@gmail.com