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Bo E. H. Saxberg, MD, PhD attended the University of Washington, receiving Summa Cum Laude an Honors B.S. degree in Mathematics and an Honors B.S. degree in Chemistry. He then attended Cambridge University in England, earning an Honours B.A./M.A. Cantab. in Physics. Returning to the U.S., he received an MD degree from Harvard and his PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Dr. Saxberg was a National Institutes of Health Fellow at MIT from 1989 to 1991, prior to joining Eli Lilly in Indianapolis as a Senior Research Scientist, continuing his prior research interests in QSAR/genomics/proteomics/physiomics. In 1993, Dr. Saxberg was named Director of Information Sciences at Eli Lilly. This group subsequently led a number of industry pioneering efforts at Lilly, including the first Internet home page for a pharmaceutical company, as well as leading efforts in developing interactive health economic models evolving to disease management, point of care prescribing, and the development of information resources to support product portfolio decision making. This group also helped to develop Lilly's corporate strategy with respect to opportunities for information technology in healthcare and the pursuit of related business opportunities.Dr. Saxberg joined Johnson & Johnson in 1995 as Vice President, Corporate Staff, Advanced Communications, leading Johnson & Johnson's efforts in Medical Informatics, focusing on new business opportunities related to information technology in healthcare delivery and product development. As part of these efforts, working with both internal and external venture capital resources, the Advanced Communications Group provided J&J creation or investment positions in companies leading a fundamental restructuring of health care, ranging from defined contribution employer-employee models to real-time auto-adjudication networks at the point of care supporting cost-quality decisions between doctor and patient. Working with the J&J international pharmaceutical group, leading competencies were created in the development of iterative customer relationships based on clinical information, permitting demonstration of product customer value. Dr. Saxberg and members of the Advanced Communications Group also led the development and implementation of Johnson & Johnson's global policies and procedures for the Internet, including privacy policies, to construct a policy platform to enable future business needs.Dr. Saxberg continued as Vice President, New Business Development and Advanced Communications, in eJNJ, LLC, founded in 2000 to focus on Internet opportunities.As of April 2002, Dr. Saxberg has left Johnson & Johnson to pursue new opportunities. He is continuing his prior work in consulting, venture formation and business development with companies seeking to take leading advantage of change driven by new technologies and information access in health care, with application to product research & development, product and service marketing, financial services innovation, and clinical service innovation. | 