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Reshma Kewalramani’s Book Picks

Curated by Reshma Kewalramani

About the Curator

Reshma has dedicated her career to improving the lives of patients, including the last 15+ years through the development of new medicines. She joined Vertex in 2017 and, in collaboration with the executive committee, board of directors and everyone at Vertex, she leads and executes the company’s strategy and ambitious mission of transforming the lives of people with serious diseases. Prior to taking on her role as CEO and President, she was the Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Global Medicines Development and Medical Affairs.

About the Folio

Reshma Kewalramani is known for her passion for developing and supporting the next generation of scientists, most recently in her role as the CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, but she’s also a passionate reader. She shared her top three book recommendations with us.

Book selections

Reshma Kewalramani book recommendations - Fable

Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe

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Empire of Pain

By Patrick Radden Keefe

Selected by Reshma KewalramaniA grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, “Empire of Pain” is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.