Mission-driven healthcare
From a two-bed clinical trials unit in 2000 to seeing nearly 30,000 cancer patients a year, Johns Hopkins Singapore, helmed by CEO Lawrence Patrick, now seeks a wider role beyond oncology in Singapore healthcare.
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Nisha Ramchandani
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LAWRENCE Patrick, the chief executive of Johns Hopkins Singapore (JHS), could have become an actuary. But his first class at graduate school - econometrics - stopped him dead in his tracks, leaving him convinced that a master's degree in economics wasn't for him after all. He had completed his undergraduate degree in the subject, but eventually decided against pursuing the same route in graduate school.
"I didn't understand anything the professor said on the first day, and that was just a general orientation about the curriculum," he quips. "I understood nothing!"
Banking wasn't a particularly attractive avenue for him either, because then "instead of touching people's lives, I'd be touching their bank accounts", he jokes, adding that he needed to do something with more human touchpoints.
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