Congratulations to executives from IABCN member companies and former honorees named to the Philadelphia Business Journals’s Power 100: The top influencers impacting Greater Philadelphia’s future.

Gerry Cuddy, CEO of Beneficial Bank
Beneficial Bank, 2017 Ambassador Award Honoree and IABCN Ambassador Club members

Mike George, President & CEO of QVC
QVC, 2015 Ambassador Award Honoree

Madeline Bell, President & CEO of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
CHOP, 2014 Ambassador Award Honoree

Tim Buckley, incoming CEO of The Vanguard Group
Vanguard, 2010 Ambassador Award Honoree

Daniel Hilferty, President & CEO of Independence Blue Cross
2012 Taoiseach Award Honoree

Bill Sasso, Chairman of Stradley Ronon
IABCN Corporate Member

Eric J. Foss, Chairman, President & CEO of Aramark
IABCN Ambassador Club Member

Jeffrey Marrazzo, CEO of Spark Therapeutics
IABCN Corporate Member

 

ICON and the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement unveil the world’s first global patient outcomes benchmarking platform

Dublin, Ireland, 27 October 2017 – ICON plc, (NASDAQ: ICLR) a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, and the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), a non-profit organization with the mission of driving value based health care, shared the findings of a global patient outcomes benchmarking platform at this week’s ICHOM’s annual conference in Washington DC. The platform aims to catalyse physician driven learning and improvement of the outcomes that matter most to patients.

ICON and ICHOM first partnered to advance value-based healthcare through the launch of a global healthcare outcomes benchmarking pilot program called GLOBE in March 2016.

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EY Awards: CLS head Evelyn O’Toole named industry entrepreneur of the year
The Irish Times

Evelyn O’Toole, founder and chief executive of Co Galway-based Complete Laboratory Solutions (CLS), the largest privately owned contract laboratory in the country, has been named EY Industry Entrepreneur of the Year.

The Clifden native set up the company in the village of Ros Muc in the heart of Connemara in 1994 just a week after being made redundant when the laboratory she was working in burnt down.

“To win is fantastic. Obviously, it is a huge personal accolade but it is also great for the team who have helped make CLS an ongoing success,” said Ms O’Toole.

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