The New England College Of Optometry Gets New President

The New England College Of Optometry Gets New President

Elizabeth Chen was earlier, a CEO of two biotech companies in Massachusetts. She has presently been elected as the 6th president of The New England College of Optometry (NECO). Frank DiMella who is the chair of the Board of Trustees has announced this.

Chen is the second non-optometrist and the first woman to head the New England College of Optometry, which was founded in 1894. For the past 20 years, Chen has held a number of positions of leadership both in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. She was the founding CEO of Marathon Biopharmaceuticals in Hopkinton, MA. She was also the head of Circe Biomedical in Lexington, MA.

In January 1971, a 7-year-old Elizabeth Chen from Taiwan she got off a plane at Boston. Now at forty three she is the president of the New England College of Optometry. This is despite having no experience in optometry or even day-to-day academic administration.

Chen herself has made a career of taking chances but will not find it difficult to find her way through a maze that might baffle others. When she was young Elizabeth involved herself in studies at the Quincy School, later she chose Yale and did an MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.

In the mid-1990s, she joined as vice president of business development at Seragen Inc., a biotech company. With many other leadership positions she has is now mapping an ambitious agenda for the New England College of Optometry. . Today, as its president, Elizabeth Chen is overall in charge of eye-care services provided by the college's New England Eye Institute. These are provides at an array of community health centers.

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