SALT LAKE CITY, April 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Varex Imaging
Corporation (Nasdaq: VREX) today announced that Jocelyn D. Chertoff, MD, has been appointed to
the company's Board of Directors, effective today April 3, 2017.
Dr. Chertoff is Chair of the Department of Radiology and
Professor of Radiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Dartmouth
Hitchcock Medical Center. She is also Vice President of the
Regional Radiology Service Line, Director of Gastrointestinal
Radiology, and Assistant Medical Director for Medical Staff
Affairs.
"I am very pleased to have Jocelyn
Chertoff join the Varex Board of Directors," said
Ruediger Naumann-Etienne, Chairman
of the Board of Directors of Varex Imaging Corporation. "She is not
only a highly accomplished physician and educator, but also brings
her vast experience in radiology from an end user perspective that
will help us with product development and in our relationships with
existing and prospective X-ray imaging system manufacturers," added
Mr. Naumann-Etienne.
Dr. Chertoff will serve on the Compensation and Management and
Development Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance
Committee. In connection with this appointment, the Varex Board
increased its size to seven directors.
Dr. Chertoff graduated from Brown
University, then from University of
Vermont College of Medicine. Following a Transitional
Internship at Hartford Hospital, a Pediatric Internship at
University of Connecticut Health
Sciences Center, and two years in a physician shortage area, and
after serving as the Medical Director for Vermont EMS, she
completed a Residency in Radiology and a Fellowship in
Cross-Sectional Imaging at the Medical Center of Vermont. She was a 2003-2004 Fellow of the
Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program, and she
received a Master's degree from the Center for the Evaluative
Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth College
in 2005, and a Master's of Health Care Delivery Science from the
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
College and The Dartmouth Institute.
Dr. Chertoff serves on multiple institutional and national
committees, and is Past Chair of the Association of American
Medical Colleges Group on Women in Medicine and Science, as well as
the Hitchcock Foundation Board of Directors. She is Past President
of the Alliance of Clinician-Educators in Radiology, the
Association of Program Directors in Radiology, the Association of
University Radiologists and the New Hampshire Radiological
Society.
About Varex Imaging
Varex Imaging Corporation is a leading innovator, designer and
manufacturer of X-ray imaging components, which include tubes,
digital flat panel detectors and other image processing solutions,
which are key components of X-ray imaging systems. Varex's
components are used in medical imaging as well as in industrial and
security imaging applications. With a 65+ year history of
successful innovation, global OEM manufacturers of X-ray imaging
system use the company's X-ray sources, digital detectors,
connecting devices and imaging software as components in their
systems to detect, diagnose and protect. Varex employs
approximately 1,400 people located at manufacturing and service
center sites in North America,
Europe, and Asia. For more
information about Varex, visit www.vareximaging.com.
For Information Contact:
Howard Goldman
Director of Investor & Public Relations
Varex Imaging Corporation
801.978.5274 | howard.goldman@vareximaging.com
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