Global Social Entrepreneur: Robert Dintruff, Director of Commercial Development for Abbott Laboratories

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Global Social Entrepreneur: Robert Dintriff, Director of Commercial Development for Abbott Laboratories Robert Dintruff, a director for Abbott's Global Care Initiatives, has worked with Abbott Laboratories since completing his graduate work at the University of Michigan. His assignments have included production, sales, business development and marketing management positions in both the Diagnostics Division and the International Division. In recent years Rob has worked to develop Abbott's Step Forward program, an initiative that assists children orphaned by HIV and AIDS in developing nations. He currently oversees the Abbott Access and Determine HIV Testing Donation programs along with a new initiative related to treatment for malaria. Abbott Access provides two of that company's widely used antiretroviral drugs, Kaletra and Norvir--at no profit to Abbott--to healthcare providers in Africa and other resource-poor regions of the world. The Determine HIV Donation Program provides Abbott's rapid HIV antibody test free of charge to programs in Africa and elsewhere that use the test to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Rob travels frequently to the 69 nations where these programs are offered. Dintruff is a 1977 graduate of Juniata College and went on to earn a master's degree in business administration in 1979 from the University of Michigan. He started his business career in 1979 as a production planning specialist. His career spans a series of management positions, including marketing manager for the Far East Area, located in Hong Kong and his current role as commercial development director at a major healthcare firm. Networking Reception after.