OUR FOUNDER: DON MARGOLIS

Don founded the company in 2003. After it was organized, he retired. In 2005, he became the patient ombudsman talking to every patient treated, first by phone, then meeting them in Bangkok, then calling to check up on them after they went back home. He was away from Bangkok for half of 2006; however, when in town, he still tries to meet every patient that comes to town (fourteen hour days are the norm for him in 2007). To read his heartfelt message to seriously-ill heart patients, click here: The Founder’s Message

Lee Jong Wok, Director General of the World Health Organization, and Don Margolis	Michael O. Leavitt, the USA Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Don Margolis
Julie Gerberding, MD is Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Don Margolis.	Don, Dr. Suphachai Chaithiraphan, Dr. Thein Htut, and Dr. Kit V. Arom

Lee Jong Wok was Director General of the World Health Organization when this was taken in Oct. 2006. Established in 1948 by the United Nations, WHO strives to attain the highest level of health for the world’s peoples.

Michael O. Leavitt, since Jan. 2005 has been the USA Secretary of Health and Human Services. Leading 67,000 employees, he is responsible for one out of four federal dollars spent at health and human services.

Julie Gerberding, MD is Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She was only 46 when she took over CDC and her academic achievements are legend.

From left, Don, Dr. Suphachai Chaithiraphan, Thailand’s leading cardiologist and attending cardiologist to about 40% of TheraVitae’s patients, Dr. Thein Htut, Medical Director, TheraVitae, and Dr. Kit V. Arom, co-founder of the Minneapolis Heart Institute and now President of Thailand’s thoracic surgeons society. Dr. Kit has personally injected VesCell™ autologous stem cells directly into the heart muscle of almost 100 patients.