Allied Healthcare Appoints Playford Advisor
June 03 2010 - 7:00AM
RNS Non-Regulatory
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Allied Healthcare International Inc
03 June 2010
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Allied Healthcare International Inc. Appoints Professor Raymond J.
Playford as Medical Advisor to the Board
Appointment Strengthens Clinical Governance
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKETWIRE) -- 06/03/10 -- Allied Healthcare
International Inc. (NASDAQ: AHCI) (AIM: AHI) ("Allied"), a leading
provider of flexible healthcare staffing services in the United
Kingdom, today announced that Professor Raymond J. Playford, PhD,
CertMng, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, FRSA, DSc, has been appointed to the
new post of Medical Advisor to the Board.
"We are delighted to welcome Professor Playford to our team,"
commented Dr. Jeff Peris, Chairman of Allied Healthcare. "His wealth
of clinical, healthcare and NHS expertise will both support our
commitment to providing our customers with one of the highest levels
of quality care in our industry and to enhancing the leadership of
Allied Healthcare. I very much look forward to working with him."
Prof. Playford has more than 25 years of experience in the medical
field, specialising in clinical research. He is currently Deputy
Warden and Professor of Medicine at Barts and the London School of
Medicine and Dentistry, as well as Vice Principal (NHS Liaison),
Queen Mary, University of London. Prof. Playford is also a
non-Executive Director of Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust
and has also been an advisor to both the UK Government and the
healthcare industry.
Prof. Playford received a Medical degree (M.B., B.S.) in 1978 from
St. Bartholomew's Medical School and his PhD in 1992 from the Royal
Postgraduate Medical School at Imperial College, London. He is a
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and the Royal College
of Pathologists (UK) and was Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical
School and Massachusetts General Hospital in 2002. He has published
over 100 original scientific and clinical papers and received several
awards for research including the British Society of Gastroenterology
(BSG) Sir Francis Avery Jones Research Medal in 1995 and Canadian
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research in 2004. He was made
a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Scientists in 2002 and, as a
result of his contribution to public education on health matters,
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2000.
ABOUT ALLIED HEALTHCARE INTERNATIONAL INC.
Allied Healthcare International Inc. is a leading provider of
flexible healthcare staffing services in the United Kingdom. Allied
operates a community-based network of over 110 branches with the
capacity to provide carers (known as home health aides in the U.S.),
nurses, and specialized medical personnel to locations covering
approximately 90% of the U.K. population. Allied meets the needs of
private patients, community care, nursing and care homes, and
hospitals. For more news and information please visit:
www.alliedhealthcare.com.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements contained in this news release may be
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are
based on current expectations and projections about future events.
Actual results could differ materially from those discussed in, or
implied by, these forward-looking statements. Factors that could
cause actual results to differ from those implied by the
forward-looking statements include: general economic and market
conditions; Allied's ability to continue to recruit and retain
flexible healthcare staff; Allied's ability to enter into contracts
with local government social services departments, NHS Trusts,
hospitals, other healthcare facility clients and private clients on
terms attractive to Allied; the general level of demand for
healthcare and social care; dependence on the proper functioning of
Allied's information systems; the effect of existing or future
government regulation of the healthcare and social care industry, and
Allied's ability to comply with these regulations; the impact of
medical malpractice and other claims asserted against Allied; the
effect of regulatory change that may apply to Allied and that may
increase costs and reduce revenues and profitability; Allied's
ability to use net operating loss carry forwards to offset net
income; the effect that fluctuations in foreign currency exchange
rates may have on our dollar-denominated results of operations; and
the impairment of goodwill, of which Allied has a substantial amount
on the balance sheet, may have the effect of decreasing earnings or
increasing losses. Other factors that could cause actual results to
differ from those implied by the forward-looking statements in this
press release include those described in Allied's most recently filed
SEC documents, such as its most recent annual report on Form 10-K,
all quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and any current reports on Form
8-K filed since the date of the last Form 10-K. Allied undertakes no
obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise.
CONTACT
Allied Healthcare International Inc.
Sandy Young
Chief Executive Officer
Paul Weston
Chief Financial Officer
+44 1785 810600
Or
Piper Jaffray Ltd. (Nominated Advisor)
Matthew Flower
Rupert Winckler
+44 20 3142 8700
Or
ICR Inc.
Sherry Bertner
Managing Director
+1 646 277 1200
Sherry.Bertner@icrinc.com
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