Pete O’Heeron is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of FibroBiologics, a Houston-based regenerative medicine company that was the first to begin working in a unique niche, using fibroblasts to treat chronic disease. A prolific biopharma inventor with over 300 patents, prior to FibroBiologics Pete was CEO of NeoSurg Technologies, which developed surgical access systems for use in minimally invasive surgery. Pete holds a Masters in Healthcare Administration from University of Houston-Clear Lake and a Bachelors in Healthcare Administration from Texas State University.
While it may appear that hospital administrators and biotech CEOs have quite dissimilar jobs because they face different challenges daily, this article attempts to conveys the value of some of the underlying principles that one can develop in the field of hospital administration, that may have some value in other healthcare fields and in other executive positions.