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When executives step into Dr. Robert Gleeson's exam room, they get a whole lot more than a standard blood pressure reading and a slight tap to the knee.

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Gleeson, a physician at Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa and a guest speaker at the 2012 BizTimes Milwaukee Fittest Execs program, specializes in executive health, preventive health care, adult health maintenance and prevention, and lipid and preventive cardiology.

As a member of the medical team for the past four years, Gleeson directs the Executive Health Program and also spearheads the preventive cardiology and lipid management under the medical center's cardiology unit.

In overseeing the Executive Health Program, he evaluates the health of corporate management teams both members who are in shape and others who are struggling and anyone interested in his extensive physical exam and consultation services. For each patient, Gleeson offers individualized advice on lifestyle changes to promote fitness and nutrition. To him, lifestyle makes all the difference in the world.

Most of Gleeson's patients are men, each of whom he meets with face-to-face for 75 to 90 minutes.

"I go into a lot of detail," Gleeson said. "Companies that really understand how much money they have invested in their key executives understand the value of finding and preventing disease."

Preventive health care is particularly important in today's market, when many companies have trimmed their staffs so that the management teams vital to their success consist of as few executives as possible, Gleeson said. These executives need to maintain their health in order to continue contributing to their companies' progress.

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