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Paradigm Announces Three Additions to Its Board of Directors
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CONCORD, CA--(Marketwire - April 17, 2008) - Paradigm
Management Services, LLC, the nation's leader in providing catastrophic
and complex medical management
services, today announced three new members to its Board of Directors.
Roger Jenkins, Ph.D. has joined the Board and the Compensation
Committee. Dr. Jenkins is the Dean of the Farmer School of Business at
Miami University of Ohio and previously held the F.M. Kirby Chair in
Business Excellence at Wake Forest University. He has held positions as
President & CEO of a Knoxville, TN based management and marketing
consulting firm and from 1993-95 he served as director, president and chief
operating officer of Goody's Family Clothing, a national retail operation.
He has been published in the Harvard Business Review, the Journal of
Marketing and the Journal of Marketing Research.
Jay Himmelstein, M.D. recently joined the Board and is the chair of the
Medical Outcomes and Quality Assurance Committee. Dr. Himmelstein is
Assistant Chancellor for Health Policy at the University of Massachusetts
Medical School. Dr. Himmelstein is a board certified physician in Internal
Medicine and Occupational Health/Preventive Medicine. He was selected to be
a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow and became a member of the
health staff for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee where he
worked on issues of national health reform and integration of workers'
compensation with other health and disability benefit systems. He is
currently the Director of The Robert Wood Johnson Workers' Compensation
Health Initiative. Dr. Himmelstein continues to maintain his health policy
research interests including Medicaid policy and workers' compensation
medical care.
Frederick M. Hudson has joined the Board of Paradigm and has been named
chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. Hudson retired from KPMG where he was
partner in charge of KPMG's health care audit practice in the
Washington-Baltimore business unit. This practice unit was KPMG's largest
health care audit practice in the US. During his 37 year career, he has
held a number of leadership positions in KPMG including Partner in charge
of the private business advisory services practice and Venture capital
liaison partner. His experience spans that of fast-growing emerging
technology businesses to initial public offerings to acquisition-oriented
Fortune 500 companies.
"These highly respected professionals bring marketing, strategy, medical
policy and quality, financial audit and advisory skill sets to the company
during a time in which we are building and investing in these critically
important areas," said Robert Fahlman, Chief
Executive Officer of Paradigm. "Roger, Jay and Fred offer our organization
proven capabilities and strategic thinking that cover a broad range of
healthcare experience and deep knowledge in both the public and private
sectors as well as academia."
About Paradigm Management Services, LLC
Paradigm Management Services, LLC is the nation's leader in providing catastrophic and complex medical
management services. Over the past two decades, Paradigm has
specialized in the management of injured people who have sustained complex
brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, severe or complex burns, multiple
trauma or chronic pain. Paradigm provides the nation's most effective
solution for managing individuals with catastrophic and complex injuries,
by committing to and achieving optimal clinical and functional outcomes,
facilitating proactive medical interventions and delivering the best return
to work rate in the industry. For additional information about the
organization, please visit the web at www.paradigmcorp.com.