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  John Abele - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John E. Abele (born 1941) is an American businessman who made his fortune in selling medical devices.
Abele's net worth recently increase due to an increased stock value of Boston Scientific, based on a recent innovation which is doing well in Europe but has yet to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States.
Abele lives in Concord, Massachusetts with his wife and three children.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Abele   (138 words)

  
 JS Online: An angel helps arts scene take flight
Abele, the hottest young philanthropist and arts advocate to hit town in ages, is a descendant of the founder of the religious order the Sisters of Charity, Elizabeth Ann Seton.
Abele said his intent is to position the well-funded Argosy Foundation as "a liberal balance" to the predominantly conservative foundations that dominate Milwaukee's cultural and social giving.
Abele said he chose Lawrence mainly because of its "quirky" relationship with Harvard - the late Nathan Marsh Pusey went from being president of Lawrence to the same post at Harvard - and because it was a well-rated school with a solid conservatory of music.
www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/dec02/103051.asp?format=print   (1546 words)

  
 Yolo County Biographies - A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Abner Abele, a farmer of Yolo County, is a son of Joseph and Francisca (Yeager) Abele, natives of Germany.
John Anderson, who was born in Virginia shortly after the immigration of the family, became a builder and there still stand in the Old Dominion many fine old buildings that are monument to his skill in construction.
John T. Archer's brother, Edward H.Archer, is serving efficiently as surveyor general of the port of San Francisco, to which office he was appointed by President Taft and is known as a man of honor and high principles.
www.cagenweb.com /yolo/yol_bio/yolbios-a.htm   (5568 words)

  
 Angioplasty / PTCA Interview - Abele, Part 4
Abele began his involvement with the field of minimally invasive medicine over three decades ago.
Abele: In my own mind the most significant thing he said was "I want to do the least necessary to help the patient heal themselves".
Abele: When Gruentzig came over to the U.S. and did his first case with Dick Myler, which was really an experimentation in a surgery, Dick and Andreas and I talked about the idea of creating a registry to measure all this data, but instead of controlling all the variables, let them change, just document them.
www.ptca.org /archive/interviews/970703int.html   (1263 words)

  
 TEDMED3
John E. Abele, a co-founder of Boston Scientific Corp., has been a Director since 1979 and Founder Chairman since 1995.
Abele held the position of Treasurer from 1979 to 1992, Co-Chairman from 1979 to 1995 and Vice Chairman and Founder, Office of the Chairman from February 1995 to March 1996.
Abele is the Chairman of the Board of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Foundation and is also a member of numerous not-for-profit boards.
www.tedmed.com /abele.html   (145 words)

  
 Expert to address catheter-based medical technology: 10/29   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Abele, who is the founder chairman of Boston Scientific, has been driving the advancement of catheter-based medical technology for more than 30 years.
Abele was one of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), a society that challenged doctors, engineers and manufacturers to develop standards, improve communication and organize biomedical education.
Abele is the owner of 17 patents and the author of many publications and articles on medical technology devices.
www.musc.edu /catalyst/archive/1999/co10-29expert.htm   (325 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: John Abele
Abele serves on the board of directors of Color Kinetics, is the Chairman of the Board of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Foundation and is also a member of numerous not-for-profit boards.
John Abele, the co-founder and chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation, and co-founder of the SIR Foundation.
Abele agrees, saying that he was drawn to Wisconsin on several different levels, including Lawrence University ties with Harvard and the state's political history.
www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=1502488   (1459 words)

  
 Duke University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John F. Kilgo became president in 1894 and greatly increased the interest of the Duke family in Trinity.
In 1903, in what is known as the "Bassett Affair," popular professor John Spencer Bassett inserted a sentence praising the life of Booker T. Washington and ranking him second in comparison to Robert E. Lee of Southerners born in a hundred years.
The residential quadrangles are of an early and somewhat unadorned design, while the buildings in the academic quadrangles show influences of the more elaborate late French and Italian styles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_University   (4506 words)

  
 Executive Briefing: Redefining Device Innovation--An Interview with John Abele
Abele’s phrase for this is “educational marketing,” where a device company lets physicians, particularly early adopters, essentially market a product through their use of that device.
Abele was also a driving force behind Boston Scientific’s innovative approach to the development of medical technology.
Abele sees biological imaging as another attractive emerging trend in that space, a technique that will ultimately allow the physician to see the biological response to their intervention and titrate their treatment to the optimum result.
www.windhover.com /contents/monthly/exex/e_2004800130.htm   (585 words)

  
 Babson Insight: Entrepreneurial Leader Interview: John Abele of Boston Scientific Speaks About Creating New Markets, ...
Abele also discusses how BSCI maintains its entrepreneurial spirit, how it adds new businesses and takes a look at the trends shaping the future of the medical device industry and patient care.
John Abele and his BSCI colleagues used a classic approach: First, win over early adopters who would serve to influence others, then create ways to help spread their influence.
Our interview with John Abele has covered just a small part of his thoughts on the success of Boston Scientific and the future of the medical device industry.
www.babsoninsight.com /contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/823   (5067 words)

  
 JS Online: Argosy worth a lot, but not that much
Abele, who's been throwing so much cash around that some think he's trying to buy his adopted hometown, said he's clueless about where these different figures come from.
Abele's father, John, was a co-founder of Boston Scientific, a medical supplies manufacturer.
Abele also drops some of his own change around town, estimating that he gives about $1 million annually to various entities, including the mayor and the governor.
www.jsonline.com /news/metro/jun04/234569.asp?format=print   (931 words)

  
 Color Kinetics : Corporate Info : News : Press Releases :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Abele was an early and instrumental advocate for less-invasive medicine, and his efforts fundamentally redefined the relationship between the device industry and medical community.
Abele's achievements included testimony before the Senate about medical devices and the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).
Abele is a physics and philosophy graduate of Amherst College.
www.colorkinetics.com /corp/news/pr/releases/2005-04-26-abele_print.htm   (613 words)

  
 Angioplasty / PTCA Interview - Abele, Part 3
Abele: He made no claims that this was going to be a panacea.
Abele: I’d be guessing here, but I know when my wife and I visited him in Zurich in ‘75, he lived in a very Spartan way, and appeared to feel strongly that this was an appropriate way to live.
Abele: You have to say, "Now what is the difference to the patient between the way in which [Gruentzig] was treating them and the way in which they would have been treated before?" Now let’s say the treatment before is an operation.
www.ptca.org /archive/interviews/970526int.html   (1116 words)

  
 John E. Abele
Abele is the Founder Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX on NYSE), a 14,000 employee, $3.4 billion world wide company that is a leader in the field of "Less Invasive Medicine," offering a broad range of products used to treat diseases or injuries of the heart, brain, digestive tract, urinary system, lungs and vascular system.
A physics and philosophy graduate of Amherst College, he started in the medical device business in 1960 with a small company that developed and marketed several laboratory instruments (flame photometer, osmometer) and distributed the first implantable pacemaker.
Abele is one of the pioneers of less invasive medicine.
www.usfirst.org /about/bio_Abele.htm   (337 words)

  
 COMMUNITY | industry
Abele is the Founder Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation in Natick, MA, a pioneer and leader in the field of "Less Invasive Medicine", offering a broad range of products for cardiology, gastroenterology, radiology, urology and surgery.
Abele graduated from Amherst College with a degree in Physics and Philosophy.
John Larkin Thompson is Of Counsel at Nutter, McClennen and Fish in Boston, MA.
www.cimit.org /comindustry.html   (1716 words)

  
 Boston.com / Business / No bubble billionaires
The Abele stake is worth about $5.2 billion, and Nicholas accounts for another $4.6 billion, including interests in family trusts and other entities.
Abele was a science-minded thinker who studied physics and philosophy at Amherst College.
Abele operates the Kingbridge Centre near Toronto, which a Boston Scientific spokesman described as a "corporate leadership training center," and serves as chairman of the First Organization, a New Hampshire nonprofit founded by Dean Kamen.
www.boston.com /business/globe/articles/2004/02/05/no_bubble_billionaires?mode=PF   (596 words)

  
 The power of the purse
Abele, who considers himself more conservative on financial matters than his liberal-cause persona, says he has learned to accept and even take advantage of the media attention.
Abele admires big thinkers with an "RFK attitude," of looking at possibilities and deciding "why not." He also takes quality people over quality ideas.
Flunking Abele’s "sensitive Geiger counter" in the fund-raising arena include individuals who use his friends to get close to him and those who don’t do their strategic homework.
www.gmtoday.com /content/CLS/2003/November/44.asp   (1259 words)

  
 Philanthropy Magazine @ The Philanthropy Roundtable   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
His publication is funded almost entirely by small foundations and individual donors, the most important of them being John Abele, founder and chairman of the Boston Scientific Corporation.
Abele has been giving to the Review for close to a decade, but his most recent grant was especially important—$120,000 for salaries for Fitzhugh and an assistant.
Abele stresses the “fantastic quality” of the high school students’ work—quality that is readily apparent to readers.
www.philanthropyroundtable.org /magazines/2001/august/greatgrants.html   (519 words)

  
 Olin College | President's Council: John E. Abele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Abele is the Founder/Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX on NYSE), a 13,000 employee, $2.7 billion worldwide company pioneering the field of "Less Invasive Medicine." Boston Scientific Corporation offers a broad range of products used to treat diseases or injuries of the heart, brain, digestive tract, urinary system, lungs and vascular system.
Abele helped pioneer the development of the "steerable" catheter.
He holds numerous patents and has published and lectured extensively on the technology of various medical devices as well as the technical, social, economic and political trends and issues affecting healthcare.
www.olin.edu /text/about_olin/council_bios/john_abele.htm   (139 words)

  
 Stanford University Biodesign Course   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Abele, Chairman, Boston Scientific, has been driving the advancement of catheter-based medical technology for more than 30 years.
Abele's vision, experience and passion for improving the delivery of health care have helped lead Boston Scientific to the forefront of less invasive medicine.
John Simpson, Inventor and Partner, Denovo Ventures is internationally recognized as a pioneer, innovator, and authority on interventional cardiology.
scpd.stanford.edu /scpd/courses/ProEd/bioDesign/speakers.htm   (1740 words)

  
 Founding Precepts
Abele is known world wide as a pioneer in the field of less invasive medicine.
Abele is a physics and philosophy graduate of Amherst College who is interested in science literacy for children, education and the process by which new technology is invented, developed and introduced to society.
Abele's remarks the audience was eager to ask questions.
www.olin.edu /about_olin/docs/abele_bc.asp   (3581 words)

  
 Robotics Education Project - FIRST Nationals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John introduced you to the larger tetras, and now the smaller ones will play an important role in this year's game.
I think again John Abele said it best when he said we are about building communities, not robots, when he said it's about the Chairman's Award, the Founder'S Award, the criteria for winning that never changes.
You have heard Paul and Dean and John talk about the vision of FIRST and how the robot is just the vehicle we use to get the point across of what we are trying to do.
www.robotics.nasa.gov /first/2005/caption.htm   (8598 words)

  
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Daughter of Anthony (Anton) and Cresenthia Nancy (Bulsinger) ABELE, was born Jul 1854 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA, and married 1875, (10) Joseph Heitzman who was born 1855.
Son of Anthony (Anton) and Cresenthia Nancy (Bulsinger) ABELE, was born 1861 in PA, and married (15) Minnie.
Son of Joseph J. and Emma Mary (Haubert) ABELE, was born 18 Jul 1892 in Ironton, Lawrence Co, OH.
www.lawrencecountyohio.com /families/a_e/abele.htm   (703 words)

  
 June 11 - 15
Carlyle Edwin Abele was born June 23, 1919, in Garner, the son of Arthur and Ada (Blank) Abele.
He is survived by his wife, Zana Abele; four children, Robert Abele, Beverly Kester and her husband, Ronald, Dean Abele, and Caryl Putzstuck; four step-children, Don Lange, Jr.
John Vernon Austin was born on March 9, 1928, in Tipton, son of Edward V. and Bessie V. (Austin) Austin.
www.pafways.org /obituaries/mcgg/2000/jun3.htm   (5155 words)

  
 Fifty Lessons | People Finder
John Abele is the industry leader whose foresight has earned him a well-deserved reputation as a pioneer in less invasive medicine.
Sir John Egan’s spent his life driving the British automotive industry forward, and he’s never taken a back seat when it comes to strong, dynamic leadership.
John Whybrow’s distinguished career in the constantly changing world of electronics is built on solid corporate foundations and principles, with a long-held belief in the importance of listening to employees and customers.
www.50lessons.com /peoplefinder.asp?l=$   (2333 words)

  
 Babson Insight: John Abele of Boston Scientific on Creating New Markets, Entrepreneurial Cultures and the Trends ...
Despite the many obvious benefits we see in hindsight, this transformation faced powerful resistance that could only be overcome with a missionary zeal focused on educating and redefining relationships with healthcare providers.
Starting with a small pioneering catheter maker, John Abele took on the evangelist role of converting doctors and building this new market.
Abele about how the company created its market, the way its early culture contributed to success, maintaining entrepreneurial spirit and the trends shaping the future of patient care.
www.babsoninsight.com /contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/795   (3890 words)

  
 GHCBios
Abele was developing, manufacturing and marketing medical technology that reduced risk, trauma, cost and recovery time.
While this was counterintuitive and strongly resisted by the surgical establishment, over the next two decades this concept transformed the practice of medicine.
Abele holds numerous patents and has published and lectured extensively on the technology of various medical devices and on the technical, social, economic and political trends and issues affecting healthcare.
www.bu.edu /ghi/media/GHCBios.htm   (3495 words)

  
 The Jergens Family of Dayton, Ohio
Charles Heckler, enumerated as a boarder in the Jergens household in the 1900 and 1910 censuses, was born in August of 1879.
John Abel, age 43, his wife Barbara, 41, and his family were enumerated in the 6th ward of the city of Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio on August 5, 1870.
John Abele was buried on the 28th of September 1880 in Section 14, Lot 83, Grave 1SE, the same grave in which his wife was laid to rest.
home.comcast.net /~schenot/jergens.html   (11004 words)

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