Bone densitometry vendor CompuMed has hired John G. (Jerry) McLaughlin as CEO, effective May 15. The Los Angeles firm also announced the appointment of company founder Robert Stuckelman as chairman of the board, and of Dr. Stuart Silverman as medical director.
McLaughlin will replace outgoing president and CEO Herbert S. Lightstone, who will leave CompuMed May 15 with the expiration of his employment contract. Stuckelman will replace Robert B. Goldberg, who resigned from the board on April 30.
McLaughlin has 30 years of experience in the medical products industry, most recently as president of the Great Circle Consulting Group, where he advised firms in the international medical device, diagnostic, and biotech markets. Prior to that, he was president of Biometric Imaging, which was subsequently acquired by Becton Dickinson in 1999.
CompuMed founder Stuckelman served as the company's president from 1973 until 1982. After several years in the consulting arena, he rejoined the firm in 1989 as president and CEO until 1994. He has remained on the firm's board of directors since its inception in 1973.
Silverman has served on CompuMed's board since 1999. He is medical director of the Osteoporosis Medical Center in Beverly Hills, and also a clinical professor of medicine and rheumatology at the UCLA School of Medicine and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to CompuMed.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
May 13, 2002
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