<Graphic> Beneath the Drapes
R Wayne Fritzsche has been appointed as a non-executive director for Bone Medical Limited.
Optum Health Limited chairman Peter Jermyn will assume the role of company secretary following the resignation of Kenneth Sharp.
Recently-listed lead drug developer, Phylogica, has announced the appointment of Greg Pullen as a non-executive director. He has previously held senior executive positions in the Australian biotech and pharmaceutical sector.
Medfin CEO and co founder Barney Gordon will be leaving to purse personal interests previously put on hold upon his return last year. After 15 years, Barney will be succeeded by skilled finance industry expert Rob Bransby, who brings more than 25 years of banking and finance experience. Also at the company, Denis Curran has been appointed chief operating officer.
At SJOG, Dr Michael Levitt has become the part time medical services director. He also heads the department of general surgey at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital.
Clinical Cell Culture founders Fiona Wood and Maria Stoner – inventors of C3's cell suspension technologies – have won the 2005 Clunies Ross Award for their contributions to medical science in Australia.
Seamus McGeever is the new regional business director for Johnson & Johnson Medical WA. He was formerly national sales manager at Roche Products and has replaced Martin Baker in the new position.
Visiomed Diagnostics has appointed Bill Dolphin as new CEO, while CFO Colin McDonald has left. Bill is from the United States and has been heading a technology company in New Zealand for the past two years. Visomed has shed its Microderm product back to the original German developers, is marketing the FunHaler (developed in Perth) and is setting up distributors in the US.
UWA associate professor Philip Thompson was honoured for his achievements in respiratory medicine research at the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand national conference in Perth last month, presented with The Wunderly Oration – one of the society's highest awards.