Dr. White, 70, became a director of the Company in July 1993. He is the former Master of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and currently the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology since July 1978; and Orthopedic Surgeon-in-Chief, Emeritus, at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston since 1990. From 1992 to 1994, he served as the Chief of Spine Surgery at Beth Israel and is Director of the Daniel E. Hogan Spine Fellowship Program. He is a graduate of Brown University, the Stanford University Medical School, holds a Ph.D. from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and graduated from the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. Dr. White is a recipient of the Bronze Star, which he earned while stationed as a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Vietnam. Dr. White is currently a director of Zimmer Holdings, Inc., a publicly held designer, marketer and manufacturer of orthopedic products. |