Senior vice president, Office of the President, medical director, Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center, Norna S. Sarofim Chair in Clinical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
On rare occasion, an innovator makes such a profound impact on the world that people thereafter cannot imagine what life was like before that transformation. Paradoxically, for those not witness to such an achievement, this phenomenon may have, in terms of legacy, a blunting effect.