BIOCOM’s September breakfast program, The Search for Sustainable, Predictable Growth, will take place on September 20th, 2006 from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. at the La Jolla Marriott in La Jolla, CA. Ron Dollens, Retired President and CEO, Guidant Corporation, will speak, describing his experiences in creating strategic alliances and address the following medical industry challenges:

* Why growth needs to be predictable as well as sustainable
* Why are some sources of growth rewarded more aggressively
* Gross Margin growth provides insight to value creation
* Impact of Health Policy on Industry consolidation
* Health Policy is more important than science in determining therapy innovation.