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The Top 10 Executive Health Programs

Most executives have trouble just finding the time for an annual physica, much less knowing where to go. So Worth scoured the country to identify medical centers that specialize in the health issues of busy executives. The following 10 programs, listed alphabetically, offer the best in executive health.

01 CALIFORNIA HEALTH & LONGEVITY INSTITUTE

Using both Western and Asian medicine, CHLI has one of the most extensive executive health programs available. The institute offers nutrition counseling and a cooking class with a registered dietician-chef who teaches executives—too many of whom rely on take out or packaged foods—how to prepare fresh yet fast meals. To make the examination process more pleasant, patients can get their blood drawn in their suite at the Four Seasons at Westlake Village outside Los Angeles, where the center is located.

Contact

Shelby Taylor Cuban, 818.575.3099, chli.com

02 CENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP MEDICINE

With a strictly clinical approach, this facility steers clear of the spa atmosphere of some programs. Located at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, it is one of the few executive health programs with same-day access to any medical specialty or advanced technology. Accepting just six patients a day, the center offers a pre-visit physician consultation. A year of follow-up nutrition and exercise coaching is included.

Contact

Nancy Dalaska, 312.926.8657, centerforpartnershipmedicine.com

03 CLEVELAND CLINIC AT CANYON RANCH

Featuring practitioners who focus on executive care, the Cleveland Clinic at Canyon Ranch offers a combination of medical attention and lifestyle management. Ranked No. 1 for cardiac care in the U.S. and as one of the top three hospitals overall by U.S. News and World Report, this program includes preventive medicine facilities in Cleveland; Tucson, Ariz.; Toronto; Lenox, Mass.; and Weston, Fla.

Contact

Scott Heasley, 216.444.8853, executivehealthprogram.com

04 COOPER CORPORATE SOLUTIONS

Executives undergo a physical including cardiovascular screenings, gastroenterology services, imaging, skin cancer tests and a nutrition and exercise consultation in less than a day. Calling its approach Fit to Lead, Cooper offers wellness training that links professional performance with health. Located in Dallas, the center has its own line of vitamins and minerals as well as a full spa.

Contact

972.560.3246, cooperaeorbics.com

05 DUKE EXECUTIVE HEALTH CENTER

Located in Durham, N.C., Duke physicians tailor each physical around a patient’s health history using lab assessments, exercise tolerance tests, stress management evaluations, body composition assessment and genetic testing and counseling. Using an electronic medical record, physicians follow up with patients at one-, four-, and seven-month intervals.

Contact

Ann Taylor, 919.660.6606, dukeexechealth.org

06 ELITE-HEALTH

This program, based in Miami, was created by cardiologists and specializes in the beginnings of heart disease. Elite-Health also offers “health portal software” that allows patients to communicate with their physicians at any time. The program is developing an app so patients can have a video consultation with their physician on the new iPhone.

Contact

Irina Brodskaya, 305.672.9989, elitehealth.com

07 JOHNS HOPKINS EXECUTIVE HEALTH PROGRAM

The Johns Hopkins program, located in Baltimore, boasts the top prostate cancer specialists in the country as well as leading internal medicine physicians. The Executive Health Program focuses on nutrition, exercise and cardiovascular health in an intimate, exclusive setting.

Contact

Carolyn Jones, 410.955.9819, hopkinsmedicine.org

08 MAYO CLINIC EXECUTIVE HEALTH PROGRAM

The renowned Mayo Clinic provides an executive physical but eschews scans and other tests that expose patients to radiation unless they are deemed necessary. The centers, located in Jacksonville, Fla.; Scottsdale, Ariz.; and Rochester, Minn., are planning a redesign to create“ offices of the future” with a look to match Mayo’s sophisticated technology.

Contact

Andrea Knapp, 480.301.4864, mayoclinic.org

09 SCRIPPS CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE HEALTH

The Scripps Center in San Diego features the latest technology in artery scans. Its Whole Person Examination targets internal medicine, cardiovascular health, dermatology, gastroenterology and “life quality.” Its newest addition is a genetic risk analysis to personalize each patient’s prevention strategies according to genealogy. The center also offers clinical psychology to address stress and anxiety, and provides massage therapy as part of the exam.

Contact

James Tuck, 858.626.4460, scripps.org

10 STANFORD LIFELONG HEALTH

This highly personalized program in Palo Alto customizes a one-day physical using diagnostic equipment to focus on cardiovascular medicine, neuroscience, sleep enhancement, sports medicine and wellness research. The Human Performance Center targets orthopedics for athletes and also offers a four-hour golf swing analysis. The center is building a new facility that will feature teleconferencing in each room and spa-like changing areas and suites.

Contact

Kathy Lee, 650.723.1639, stanfordhospital.org

Metrics: Facebook

Despite growing concerns over privacy, Facebook has surged to some 500 million members. With an IPO expected before long, the company is poised to cash in on that popularity. But what's Facebook really worth? Worth crunches the numbers.

Ever since then-Harvard student Mark Zucker berg cofounded Face book in 2004, its popularity has grown exponentially. The site’s average user spends an hour a day on the site to connect with friends and family and read posts from fellow users; only Google gets more visits.

From the start, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company was attractive to investors. Four months after Facebook launched, competing site Friendster proposed a $10million investment. More such offers would follow, and in late 2007 Microsoft paid $240 million for a 1.6 percents take in the company. Facebook has also fended off acquisition offers from Viacom ($750 million) and Yahoo ($1 billion) while striking deals with private investors for some $700 million in financing.

Facebook has hit some rough spots. While the information users share on the site is catnip to advertisers, the company’s Byzantine privacy tools have sparked anger among users and attracted Washington’s attention.

The responsibility of calming public anxiety falls on the shoulders of Facebook’s26-year-old chief executive. Zucker berg says that the company is in no rush to go public, although investors hope for an IPO in 2011.The company reported positive cash flow last year for the first time, and Zucker berg has described reports that the company would approach $1 billion in revenue this year as “not so far off.”

HERE’S HOW MUCH THE NOTORIOUSLY TIGHT-LIPPED COMPANY HAS RAISED, WHAT IT HAS BOUGHT AND WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE EARNING.

FUNDS RAISED

$50,000

In June 2004 Peter Thiel, cofounder and former CEO of PayPal, became Facebook’s first investor, pumping half a million dollars into the fledgling business. He’s been on the company’s board of directors ever since. A year later, Facebook received VC funding of $12.7millionfrom Accel Partners and $27.5 million from Greylock Partners.

$240 MILLION

The amount Microsoft invested in the company in October 2007 for a 1.6 percent equity stake, enough to edge out a Google bid and valuing the company at an impressive $15 billion. In return, Microsoft received preferred stock, with priority in getting paid before common stockholders should the company be sold, and became Facebook’s exclusive advertising provider.

REVENUES

$550 MILLION

Revenue generated in 2009, according to the blog Business Insider, including $125 million from brand ads, $200 million from self-service ads, $150 million from the Microsoft ad partnership and $75 million from virtual goods. The 2009 total—some reports put the number closer to $800 million—is an increase from $300 million in 2008.

$500+ MILLION

Facebook-associated revenue in 2009. This figure includes monies from transactions inside some half a million Facebook applications, according to Justin Smith of Inside Facebook, a resource for the Facebook developer community. The most popular Facebook games generated about $3 million each in monthly sales last year. These apps also sold $200 million in advertising, since they host ads promoting other apps; their creators get paid about 50 cents each time a user clicks on an ad. Facebook gets a cut of these revenues.

$1 BILLION

Estimated 2010 revenue, give or take $100 million.

$200 MILLION

The preferred-stock investment of Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Internet holding company and investment group, made in May 2009 at a $10 billion valuation for a 3.5 percent stake. DST also bought about $100 million in shares from Facebook employees at $14.77 a share, allowing Facebook to keep its shareholder-base low and avoid having to disclose additional financial information to the SEC.

$210 MILLION

The amount venture capital firm Elevation Partners has invested in Facebook stock purchased from private shareholders. Elevation’s latest buy, in June, valued Facebook at $23 billion.

EXPENDITURES

$47.5 MILLION

Facebook acquired Friend Feed, a real-time news aggregator start-up, in August 2009. Since then, the company has acquired contact-importing start-up Octazen Solutions and photo-sharing service Divvy shot for undisclosed amounts. It also attempted to buy Twitter in a $500 million stock deal, but failed. Since then, Facebook has offered its own version of short-form messaging and status-update tools.

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Q&A: Dave Stewart

You may remember him as the quiet half of the rock band Eurythmics, but Dave Stewart has a knack—and a message—for business.

With his tattooed wrists, omnipresent sunglasses and skull-and-bones jewelry, 57-year-old Dave Stewart still looks like the rock star he once was. What he doesn’t look like: a businessman who, since Eurythmics broke up 20 years ago, started his own record label, Anxious Records; founded a production company, Weapons of Mass Entertainment; and served as a consultant to companies such as Nokia and Visa. Now, with collaborator Mark Simmons, Stewart has written The Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide (Prentice Hall), due out in July.

Most people probably don’t think of you as a businessman.

For the past few years, I’ve been consulting with a number of companies, including Visa, and giving lectures on creativity. I’m working with Nokia on a project to change the way people receive creative content on cell phones and to make the artist’s payment much more transparent. I can’t give details, but I can tell you that it’ll be revolutionary.

The Business Playground isn’t your typical business book.

The Business Playground resembles a children’s book, with cartoon-like characters and games as a metaphor for the way we want to make you think about business. Whether you’re writing a melody or creating a brand, you need to let go and think creatively.

What’s your business philosophy?

Think like a child and be willing to constantly reinvent yourself.

What’s the difference between working with artists and working with corporations?

They’re not as different as most people think. Artists and more traditional businesses can both be exciting, invigorating and very stubborn. They’re also both very protective of their brands.

Yet the music industry isn’t known for its business acumen.

People tend not to see music as a business, but once you work with a musician like Mick Jagger, you immediately see how aware he is of his brand—both the Mick Jagger brand and the Rolling Stones brand. Art is a business. The difference is that artists are willing to run with their most zany off-the-wall ideas in a way that businesses really should emulate. Businesses often get so caught up trying to protect their brands they shy away from doing anything new.

And that’s where you come in?

I think now, more than ever before, the companies that succeed are the ones willing to do things a little bit off-kilter. Just look at Pinkberry—they’re not just about yogurt, they’re about crazy plastic chairs, which are a brilliant touch.

What else are you up to?

A lot. I just met with Stephen Davis, the president of Hasbro, about Wacky Doo, a world I’ve created for children that will have a TV show, toys and branded products focused on a group of animals who’ve been kicked out of the zoo because they’re not scary enough. I’ve also created a show based on Business Playground, which I’m presenting at the Cannes TV festival. It will have entertainers meet with corporate heads to step into their shoes and give them ideas—I’ll have Lady Gaga meeting with the leaders of General Motors.

Strange combination.

It’s like you’re watching cards in Las Vegas, and you see that guy at the roulette table come from nowhere. That’s me.

Dave Stewart can be reached at info@weaponsofme.com.