Healthcare Professionals

Committed to helping you meet the evolving challenges and opportunities in patient care.

Healthcare Professionals
  • Primary Care

    Supporting every aspect of your clinical practice, including physical exam, diagnostic cardiology, vitals monitoring and vision screening

  • Hospital Care

    Advancing products and technologies designed to speed patient recovery and streamline clinical workflows

  • Surgical Care

    Delivering innovations that enable reduced operating times, faster patient recovery and improved outcomes

  • Kidney Care

    Pioneering care in hemodialysis (HD), peritoneal dialysis (PD) and digital health to support better outcomes for your patients

  • Nutritional Care

    Personalizing nutritional care designed to improve patients’ health in the hospital, the ICU and at home

  • Respiratory Care

    Helping your patients with respiratory therapies designed to simplify delivery and improve mobility

  • Our Products & Services

    Our portfolio of acute, nutritional, renal, hospital and surgical care products helps advance healthcare around the world.

Perspectives

For nearly a century, we have worked at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives.

Perspectives

Our Story

Our 90-year heritage gives us distinct perspective on the needs of patients and caregivers. We lead today by putting those insights to work to deliver new, better healthcare solutions and access to care in the communities where we live and work.

Our Story
  • Our Leadership

    Our forward-looking leadership team is a driving force in ensuring we meet the needs of all our stakeholders – every day and everywhere.

  • Our Governance

    We are proud of our strong commitment to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance.

  • Fueling Collaborative Innovation

    Nurturing a culture of innovation is critical to delivering on our mission to save and sustain lives. We partner with the healthcare community to continually find more efficient, smarter ways to help solve the world's most pressing healthcare challenges.

  • Corporate Responsibility

    We strive to create lasting value by empowering our patients, protecting our planet and championing our people and communities.

  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

    We are committed to attracting, motivating and retaining an inclusive and diverse workforce.

  • Our History

    For nearly a century, we’ve been focused on saving and sustaining lives and elevating patient care.

Patients

Helping you reach a healthy life, full of possibility.

Patients
  • General Healthcare

    Whether you are receiving care in the hospital, at your doctor’s office or at home, we are here to support every step of your journey.

  • Nutritional Care

    When medical conditions prevent you from adequately feeding yourself, we provide life-saving clinical nutrition options to help you regain your nutritional status.

  • Kidney Care

    Kidney disease is an ongoing journey for you and your family. While every journey is unique, Baxter is committed to supporting access to care options to meet your medical and lifestyle needs.

  • Respiratory Care

    We are committed to helping you with innovative products that deliver effective, proven respiratory therapy in the hospital and at home.

Our Leadership

Our Leadership

Our forward-looking leadership team is made up of dedicated, focused and experienced executives.  Working with each other and with our employees worldwide, their knowledge and experience come together to make a difference for all our stakeholders – patients, healthcare providers, employees, investors and communities around the globe.

Board

Meet Our Board of Directors

​José (Joe) E. Almeida

​Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

William A. Ampofo II

Chair, Supply Chain Operations Council and Vice President, Parts & Distribution Services and Supply Chain, Boeing Global Services

Jeffrey (Jay) A. Craig

Former Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Meritor Corporation

Patricia B. Morrison

Former Executive Vice President, Customer Support Services and Chief Information Officer, Cardinal Health Inc.

​Stephen N. Oesterle, M.D.

​Healthcare industry consultant, former Senior Vice President, Medicine & Technology, Medtronic

Stephen H. Rusckowski

Former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

Nancy M. Schlichting

Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Ford Health System

Brent Shafer

Lead Independent Director and Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cerner Corporation

​Cathy R. Smith

​Chief Financial Officer, Nordstrom

Amy A. Wendell

Former Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development and Licensing, Covidien

David S. Wilkes, M.D.

Dean Emeritus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine

Peter M. Wilver

Former Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

Leadership

Meet Our Leadership Team

​José (Joe) E. Almeida

​Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

James Borzi

Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer

​Stacey Eisen

​Senior Vice President, Chief Communications Officer and Corporate Marketing, and President, Baxter International Foundation

Joel Grade

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Gerard (Jerry) Greco, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer

Tobi Karchmer, M.D., M.S.

Senior Vice President and Chief Medical & Scientific Officer

Heather Knight

Executive Vice President and Group President, Medical Products & Therapies

​Jeanne Mason, Ph.D.

​Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer

Piero Novello

Senior Vice President and President, Growth & Emerging Markets

Charles (Rusty) Patel

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Reazur (​Reaz) Rasul

Executive Vice President and Group President, Healthcare Systems & Technologies

David S. Rosenbloom

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Alok Sonig

Executive Vice President and Group President, Pharmaceuticals

Chris Toth

Executive Vice President and Group President, Kidney Care