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Guest: Meet Dr. Phillip Frost: Billionaire CEO and the Healthcare Pioneer Behind OPKO Health $OPK

Website: https://www.opko.com/

Ticker: $OPK

His Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Frost

Bio:

Dr. Frost has been the CEO and Chairman of OPKO since March 2007. Previously, Dr. Frost served at Teva Pharmaceutical industries, Limited (“TEVA”) as both Chairman of the Board and Vice Chairman. Dr. Frost served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of IVAX Corporation from 1987 until its acquisition by Teva in January 2006. He also served as Chairman for Key Pharmaceuticals, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services was a director of Continucare Corporation and Castle Brands, Inc. He was also a Governor and Co-Vice-Chairman of the American Stock Exchange.

Dr. Frost is a past chairman and currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami, the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies in China, and as a Trustee of the Miami Jewish Home for the Aged and the Mount Sinai Medical Center. He also serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. He is a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Scripps Research Institute, the Board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Skolkovo Foundation Scientific Advisory Council in Russia.

Dr. Frost is a director of Cocrystal Pharma Inc, a publicly traded biotechnology company developing new treatments for viral diseases.