SonoSite Announces Vice President Appointments in Product Development
June 16 2006 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
Jim Gilmore returns to SonoSite Lee Dunbar promoted SonoSite, Inc.
(Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader in hand-carried ultrasound, today
announced the appointment of James M. Gilmore as Vice President,
Advanced Development and Ultrasound Engineering and the promotion
of Lee D. Dunbar to Vice President, Premium Products Engineering.
Mr. Gilmore was one of the original engineers at SonoSite when the
company was spun off from ATL Ultrasound in 1998. He served as
Director, Transducer Engineering for six years and played a key
role in the development of the SonoSite 180(TM), iLook(R) and
TITAN(R) systems. In 2004, Mr. Gilmore joined GE Healthcare and
served as Global Engineering Manager for Global Ultrasound Probes
until his recent decision to rejoin SonoSite. At GE he managed a
staff of over 60 engineers located in the US, China, Japan,
Austria, France, Norway and India and was responsible for all
aspects of product definition, design, development and
manufacturing engineering support of diagnostic ultrasound
transducers. Mr. Gilmore's career in the ultrasound industry
includes engineering management positions at ATL Ultrasound from
1991 through 1998 and at Diasonics from 1989 to 1991 as an
acoustics engineer. He was honored as an ATL Technical Fellow for
innovation and technical leadership in advanced phased array and
multidimensional array projects and is named as an inventor on
three patents for transducer technology. Mr. Gilmore received both
his BS in electrical engineering and his MS in biomedical
engineering from Drexel University. Mr. Dunbar's career in
ultrasound technology spans more than 20 years. He joined SonoSite
in 1999 as a member of the company's technical team and helped
develop the SonoSite 180, the company's and industry's first
hand-carried ultrasound product. He has been a key technical
contributor in all of the company's subsequent products and prior
to this promotion served as Director, Software Engineering. From
1992 to 1996 Mr. Dunbar held engineering management positions at
ATL Ultrasound, now part of Philips Medical Systems, and from 1985
to 1992 worked at Quantum Medical Systems, acquired by Siemens AG
in 1990. He is named as an inventor on a patent issued in 1995 for
color flow imaging algorithms and was honored as an ATL Technical
Fellow for leading the software architecture of ATL's highly
successful HDI(R) 3000 product line. Mr. Dunbar received both his
BS and MS degrees in computer science from Washington State
University. "I am pleased to welcome Jim Gilmore back to SonoSite
and congratulate Lee Dunbar on his well deserved promotion," said
Bradley G. Garrett, SonoSite Chief Operating Officer. "Their
dedication and strong records of successful innovation in
ultrasound technology will make important contributions as we
introduce future products that promise to transform medical
practice by changing the role of ultrasound in medicine." About
SonoSite SonoSite, Inc. (www.sonosite.com) is the innovator and
world leader in hand-carried ultrasound, with an installed base of
more than 25,000 systems. The company, headquartered near Seattle,
is represented by eight subsidiaries and a global distribution
network in over 75 countries. SonoSite's small, lightweight systems
are expanding the use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by
cost-effectively bringing high performance ultrasound to the point
of patient care. The company employs approximately 500 people
worldwide.
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