MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medtronic, Inc., (NYSE: MDT), today announced William A. Hawkins, chairman and CEO, recently received the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Distinguished Achievement Award. As part of the award, the plenary lecture he delivered to the organization was published in the March 2010 edition of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. The Distinguished Achievement Award is given to a company, charitable foundation, or nonacademic institution that has made great contributions to the field of biomedical engineering/bioengineering.
