Health Care Access Requires Innovation

My spouse Dr. Christine Copple has invested a lifetime in improving human health care. She trained in England and at Cold Spring Harbor in New York on Long Island. She has worked along side multiple Nobel Laureates. Her work in herpes, the basis of her PhD thesis will perhaps earn her the prize. She however does not rest on her laurels.When she finished her medical training in England and her PhD work at Cold Spring Harbor she realized that working at the bench would confine her talents to one health issue at a time. She decided at the urging of Dr. Barbara McClintock to enter the business side of health care. Thus her journey began first in scientific publishing, followed by work in the private sector on medical devices and stem cell medical applications. She took a detour for a three year period from the private sector working for Dr. Rita Colwell as the University of Maryland Bio Technology Liason.She made this choice to help pay back the country that gave her opportunities to work in fields not readily available to her in the U.K. She later returned to the private sector as the President of ASMR a for profit division of the American Society for Microbiology. It is a limited scope venture fund where she learned the venture business. Currently she is assisting new biotechnology companies develop new drugs, new devices to detect counterfeit drugs and nano-technology.

In these trying economic times she believes that our best technology development times are ahead. More about her work in my next post.