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Medtronic CEO to Speak

Art Collins, chair and CEO of Medtronic

Medtronic Chairman and CEO Art Collins will give the final Whiting-Turner lecture of the spring semester on May 3.

Collins’s talk, "How Advances in Medical Technology Will Provide Greater Value to Patients and the Health Care System," will take place at 5 p.m. in the Kim Engineering Building lecture hall.

The lecture will also serve as the culmination of the 1st Annual Fischell Festival on May 3, also in the Kim Engineering Building. The lecture will be preceded by a reception at 4:30 p.m. outside of the lecture hall.

For more information about Collins and the lecture series, please visit the lecture series web site. The video for the semester's other lecture, by AOL’s Ted Leonsis, is also available.

April 17, 2007