SUSTAINABILITY
Kathryn Unger is VP of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) at Boston Scientific. [Photo courtesy of Boston Scientific]
“The patient is and must be at the center of everything we do. We’re constantly trying to ensure that we have the absolute best patient outcome, from a risk-to-the-patient perspective, period. That has to be our guiding principle, right? However, that’s not an excuse to not improve the design of our medical devices. … There has to be product stewardship that starts before you get to the manufacturing piece. And that design needs to be circular and consider the full life cycle,” she said, later continuing, “It’s not having to convince investors or having to convince our leadership. It’s our customers pulling and us trying to keep up.”
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