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Diversinet Appoints Dr. Richard Eidinger to Board of Directors
Diversinet Appoints Dr. Richard Eidinger to Board of Directors
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n Sep. 8, 2010 (Canada NewsWire Group) -- \n\n \n \n \nTR.cnwUnderlinedCell TD {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid\n}\nTR.cnwDoubleUnderlinedCell TD {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 3px double\n}\nTR.cnwBoldUnderlinedCell TD {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 3px solid\n}\nTD.cnwUnderlinedCell {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 1px solid\n}\nTD.cnwDoubleUnderlinedCell {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 3px double\n}\nTD.cnwBoldUnderlinedCell {\n BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 3px solid\n}\n\nAddition of Physician Executive with Broad Healthcare Industry Experience Adds to Diversinet's Mobile Healthcare Expertise\n\nTORONTO, Sept. 8 /CNW/ - Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCBB: DVNTF), a leading innovator of secure mobile healthcare applications, has appointed to its board of directors Dr. Richard Eidinger, a physician executive with diverse healthcare industry experience.\n"Dr. Eidinger's extensive healthcare industry experience and expertise expand our knowledge base and will provide valuable guidance as we continue to develop our leadership position in the growing market for mobile-healthcare applications," said Albert Wahbe, Diversinet chairman and CEO.\nLicensed to practice medicine in Canada and the United States, Dr. Eidinger brings to Diversinet a background spanning the healthcare provider and payer market segments, both of which Diversinet serves with its secure mobile platform and applications. Eidinger has held executive positions with Aetna Health Plans and FHP (now United Healthcare) and currently is a Partner in the Life Sciences Practice of Heidrick & Struggles in the U.S.A., one of the world's premier executive-search and leadership-consulting firms.\nEidinger graduated from the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine. He completed training in Internal Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. He was a Fellow in Gastroenterology at the UCLA School of Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, where he was awarded a Venture Capital Fellowship.\nThe Diversinet board appointment follows other moves to advance the company's strategy of using its patented technology to meet increasing needs for connected and secure mobile healthcare-information management. Diversinet recently named healthcare-IT veteran Mark Trigst...