Phillip Frost

Dr. Phillip Frost earned a medical degree despite never having practiced medicine before teaching dermatology to aspiring doctors. He went on to start Ivax, a pharmaceutical company that was sold for $7.8 billion. Frost joined the Teva Pharmaceuticals Board of Directors after the sale. He now has a net worth of roughly $2.2 billion as a result of the sale of his company and his collaboration with Teva Pharmaceuticals.

For the past six years, he has been a dermatology professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He represented numerous organizations in the military and ensured that they met their objectives. This long-term health care investor, entrepreneur, and pioneer currently runs Opko Health, a diagnostics company.

Net Worth: $2.2B