That's pretty cool....

Don Hindman's birthday is today - Happy Birthday Don! - and his friends are donating to the Haitian relief effort in his name. That's a cool way to use facebook and participate in the world community!

Congrats to John Sory

Congrats to John on his new job, too bad the relaxed John pictured on his FB site will have to go into hibernation for a while! Good luck from the Class of '83!

ERT Appoints Senior Executive for Health Care Market and Acquisition Opportunities

PHILADELPHIA, 7 January 2010 – ERT, a leading provider of centralized services to the biopharmaceutical, medical device and related industries, announced the appointment of John Sory to the newly created role of Senior Vice President of Health Care Solutions. This strategic appointment will enable ERT to leverage its core expertise into the larger health care market. Mr. Sory will be responsible for developing this growth area as well as exploring merger and acquisition opportunities in clinical research. He will report to the President and CEO of ERT, Dr Michael McKelvey.

The health care industry increasingly requires technical connectivity across the health system, remote clinical review and data services to augment and support the process of care delivery and robust analytics to evaluate the improvement in patient health. ERT is highly experienced in developing similar comprehensive, efficient, centralized solutions for the clinical trials industry. This new appointment demonstrates the Company’s desire to leverage and expand its established expertise and core capabilities, with the ultimate goal of building diversified revenue streams to complement our clinical trial business.

Mr. Sory joins ERT following 16 years of experience working for Pfizer, Inc. He spent the last seven years as Vice President and General Manager of Pfizer Health Solutions, Inc, Pfizer’s health technology and services subsidiary. John brings extensive business development experience working on partnerships, joint ventures, and mergers, as well as operations experience having managed innovative health care initiatives in the U.S. and Europe. A high level industry executive, Mr. Sory has demonstrated his ability to successfully leverage a company’s resources, talent and intellectual property across many divergent sectors of the health care system.

Dr Michael McKelvey, President and CEO of ERT, comments, “With his wealth of new business development and managerial experience and capabilities, we are confident that John will establish ERT’s presence in the broader health care market. His appointment marks the next stage of ERT’s continued investment to growing our business into adjacent and complementary markets.”

John Sory adds, “ERT’s industry-leading technology and solutions, which have driven its success in the cardiac safety area of clinical trials, can be leveraged in unique ways for the health care market and in other areas of clinical trials. I am delighted to lead the path toward this goal. In this time of intensive health reform, we have an opportunity to bring established competencies to the market in exciting new ways. We look forward to developing our strategy, that will allow us to build, partner, pilot and launch a number of meaningful and innovative products and services.”

For further information on ERT and its technology and services, please email info@ERT.com, call +1 215 972 0420 or visit http://www.ert.com/.

About ERT
Based in Philadelphia, PA ERT (eResearchTechnology, Inc.) (www.ERT.com) is a global provider of technology and services to the biopharmaceutical, medical device, and related industries. The Company is the market leader in providing centralized core-diagnostic electrocardiographic (ECG) technology and services to evaluate cardiac safety in clinical development. The Company also provides technology and services to streamline the clinical trials process by enabling its customers to automate the collection, analysis, and distribution of clinical data in all phases of clinical development.

A Comment! Yippee!

Thanks Jeff Spadafora for posting the first comment on the blog (re the Class Notes Matter post). It only took two years!

:: DAnet News ::for the NYC classmates - Mr. Moorehead exhibit

:: DAnet News ::

January 15, 2010 Robert Moorhead's paintings are currently on exhibit at the Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller (LTMH) Gallery in New York City. The paintings--eight, total--are part of a group exhibit titled "PEACE", which runs January 8-29, 2010.
You can view some of Mr. Moorhead's paintings and learn more about the gallery, here.
The LTMH Gallery is located at 39 East 78th Street (3rd floor), New York, NY 10075.

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Why Class Notes Matter

If you caught the email version of the redesigned "Deerfield Today" alumni newsletter you may have already seen the piece on Jeff Silverman's company. Of course, it was old news to those who have watched (or better yet subscribed) to this blog. But the good thing is that rather than 65 people knowing about Jeff's talent it's more like 9,000. We all have talents or tidbits and classnotes shows that they are relevant to more than just a few of us. Please keep them coming and encourage your classmates to subscribe to this blog.

Adam Feiges read the newsletter and commented that the new Ashley Award will be for "young alumni", which is defined as the less than 20 years since graduation. That fact makes Adam feel increeeeeeedibly old!!!!

January Surprise(s)!

Eduardo Blohm and son Daniel stopped by the office today - after Daniel's interview with JJ Briones '82 in the Deerfield Admission Office - and before their afternoon visit to NMH. Daniel is touring a number of schools, but more importantly, is nearly as tall as his father! Always great to see Eduardo, and remember, we all have a friend in Venezuela!

Also, Happy Birthday to Adam Weinberg on Tuesday, January 12!