Former President George W. Bush will address the annual conference of the country’s largest medical device industry council, in a meeting of two parties that probably wish it was still 2004.
The Advanced Medical Technology Assn. said today that the 43rd POTUS has accepted its invitation to provide the keynote address at AdvaMed 2011, the council’s annual fall gathering. He’ll join Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush as former presidents who have addressed the conference.
CBS news anchor Katie Couric had the honor at last year’s event, which drew about 1,700 attendees, according to planners.
Since leaving office in 2009, the former president has written a memoir and worked with the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Texas, which will house his presidential library, museum and an institute bearing his name.
Bush should be greeted warmly by the conferences attendees, as his presidency coincided with a robust time of growth for the medical device industry.
