STAT Plus: A Q&A with Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann

Sue Desmond-Hellmann has some experience when it comes to health care.

She began her career as an oncologist in San Francisco, and later worked in Kampala, Uganda, treating patients with AIDS-related cancer. She later was appointed president of Genentech, before serving as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. For the past 5 1/2 years, she has served as CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. At age 62, she will step down from that post at the end of this month.

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