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Home » Practice Fusion announces first VP of product management | Personnel Moves

Practice Fusion announces first VP of product management | Personnel Moves

June 16, 2011 By MassDevice staff

MassDevice.com Personnel Moves

Here’s the latest personnel changes from medical device, diagnostics and life science companies around the nation. For more recent hirings and firings, check out MassDevice’s compilation of the latest personnel moves.

  • Practice Fusion announces first VP of product management
    Electronic medical record company Practice Fusion appointed former athenahealth executive Edwin Miller as its first VP of product management. Practice Fusion is the fastest growing EMR community in the U.S., according to company officials.

    The company’s HR department has had a busy year with the announcement of a new CFO in March and a new VP of marketing in April.

    Read our interview with Practice Fusion founder and CEO Ryan Howard from June, 2010.

    This latest announcement comes on the heels of the San Francisco-based company’s recent achievement of full federal certification as a complete EHR provider by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT.
    Read more

  • ViaCyte appoints former Edwards manager to VP of device research and development
    ViaCyte Inc. named Michael Scott VP of device research and development today, where he will oversee all development and manufacturing activities including design, engineering, and testing while contributing to regulatory matters. Scott comes to the San Diego-based diabetes-focused cell therapy company from Edwards Lifesciences, where his most recent role was as senior director of engineering for heart valve therapies.
    Read more
  • Allegro assigns new president & CEO
    Allegro Diagnostics appointed Michael Webb as president & CEO and added him to the company’s board of directors. Webb brings more than 25 years of leadership experiences in the biomedical industry to the Maynard, Mass.-based diagnostics company.
    Read more
  • HeartSine names new president
    HeartSine Technologies Inc. announced that William McChesney will take over as president for the personal and public defibrillator company, succeeding Gregory Cash who served as president for four years. McChesney is a 30-year veteran of financial, manufacturing and service in industries including healthcare and telecommunications in Europe, the U.S., Asia and Australia.
    Read more
  • Freeland Systems adds a new VIP of sales, marketing and business development
    Freeland Systems announced the appointment of Michael Kingcaid as VP of sales, marketing and business development. Kingcaid brings 30 years of experience in complex medical hardware and software sales to the Venice, Fla.-based imaging technology company.
    Read more
  • RepRegen chairman resigns
    Dr. Stephan Rietiker resigned as chairman of Switzerland-based RepRegen, citing "significant and competing workload and responsibilities" as the reason for his departure.
    Read more
  • Hotspur names its first board chairman
    Mountainview, Calif.-based Hotspur Technologies announced the appointment of Fred Khosravi as chairman of the board for the catheter-based technologies company. Khosravi is a Hotspur cofounder and served on the board prior to being appointed to the newly created chairman position.
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  • Cleveland Clinic’s medical director for cardiac intensive care shifts to Summa Cardiovascular
    Dr. Marc Penn resigned as medical director of cardiac intensive care to serve as director of research at Summa Cardiovascular Institute and professor of medicine and integrative medical sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical University.
    Read more
  • Generex appoints CEO for post-spinout Antigen Express
    Generex Biotechnology Corp. (OTC:GNBT) announced the appointment of Jos van der Woert as CEO of its wholly-owned subsidiary Antigen Express Inc. following its spinout as a stand-alone public company. van der Woert brings extensive experience in the oncology arena to the Worcester, Mass.-based cancer vaccine platform technology maker.
    Read more

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, News Well Tagged With: Allegro Diagnostics, Cleveland Clinic, Freeland Systems, Generex Biotechnology Corp., HeartSine Technologies Inc., Hotspur Technologies Inc., Personnel Moves, Practice Fusion, RepRegen, Summa Cardiovascular Institute, ViaCyte Inc.

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