Making big decisions without all the facts: Stanton Rowe at TEDxOrangeCoast

"We rarely have all the facts, how can you make BIG decisions without them. Finding and clinging to our core values makes seeing through the fog possible." says Stanton Rowe in explaining what makes our life and decisions relevant.

Stanton Rowe is the son of a rocket engineer and a teacher. Raised in Alabama, he studied Biologyand became fascinated with medicine, working in pharmaceuticals at first, then medical devices.
He has developed products for critical care medicine, interventional cardiology, and cardiac surgery. He values his time working with key physicians from around the world, their partnership in development being so important to making new products that save lives, and improve others.
Stanton's most favorite activity is traveling with his family to interesting places like Galapagos, Greek Isles, Alaska, and Japan and the ancient cities of Jerusalem, Rome, Venice and Paris.
Stanton also enjoys supporting students in biomedical engineering and science studies. He is involved with several leading universities departments of biomedical engineering, and recently joined the Board of the Discovery Science Center.
Stanton is Chief Scientific Officer and Corporate Vice President at Edwards Lifesciences, and is thrilled to still be developing life saving products for patients in need.

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