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| Speaker's Profile |
| Name: |
Robert Dintruff |
| Title: |
Director for Abbott's Global Care Initiatives |
| Company: |
Abbott |
| Industry: |
Biotech/Pharmaceutical |
| Profile |
Rob Dintruff is a Director for Abbott's Global Care Initiatives. He has worked with Abbott Laboratories over the past 24 years since completing his graduate work at the University of Michigan. His assignments have included various production, sales, business development and marketing management positions in both the Diagnostics Division and the International Division.
In recent years, Rob has worked to develop Abbott's Step Forward program, an initiative that assists children orphaned by HIV and AIDS in developing nations. He currently oversees the Abbott Access and DetermineŽ HIV Testing Donation Programs along with a new initiative being developed for the treatment of malaria.
Abbott Access is a program that provides the antiretroviral drugs, Kaletra and Norvir and DetermineŽ HIV, a rapid test for HIV antibodies, at no profit to Abbott in Africa and the Least Developed Countries as defined by the U.N.
The DetermineŽ HIV Donation Program provides Abbott's rapid HIV antibody test free of charge to programs in that same geography where the product is used for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Rob, and others in his organization, travel frequently to the 68 nations where these programs are offered. Their efforts provide access to critical products from Abbott where the need is greatest.
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