Martine RothblattChairperson & CEO at United TherapeuticsSpeaker
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Martine Rothblatt: Global Health & Wellness Summit Keynote
Martine Rothblatt is Chairperson & CEO of United Therapeutics, a company she started to save the life of one of her daughters. The company offers FDA approved medicines for pulmonary hypertension and neuroblastoma and is working on manufacturing an unlimited supply of transplantable organs.
Dr. Rothblatt previously created and led Sirius XM as its Chairman & CEO and launched other satellite systems for navigation and international television broadcasting. In the field of aviation her Sirius XM satellite system enhances safety with real-time digital weather information to pilots in flight nationwide. She also designed the world’s first electric helicopter and piloted it to a Guinness world record for speed, altitude and flight duration.
Dr. Rothblatt is passionate about green construction, and she led the effort to build the world’s largest site zero carbon building (over 150,000 square feet), called the Unisphere, in Silver Spring, MD. She has also built zero carbon footprint laboratories, office buildings and residences.
She has Bachelor’s (Communications Studies, Summa Cum Laude), JD (Order of the Coif) and MBA degrees from UCLA, which in 2018 awarded her its highest recognition, the UCLA Medal, as well as a Ph.D. in Medical Ethics from the Royal London School of Medicine & Dentistry. Her patented inventions cover aspects of satellite communication, medicinal biochemistry, cognitive software and electric aviation.
Dr. Rothblatt’s most popular books are on organ transplantation (Your Life or Mine), gender freedom (The Apartheid of Sex) and cyberethics (Virtually Human). She occasionally posts on Instagram @transbinary and Twitter @skybiome.