Abbott diagnostics management
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Joseph Nemmers will lead the firm's worldwide diagnostics business following his appointment as senior VP-diagnostic operations Sept. 15. Formerly VP-global diagnostic commercial operations, Nemmers will report to Richard Gonzales, Medical Products Group president and COO. Nemmers, 48, replaces Thomas Brown, who retired last year after a failed FDA follow-up inspection of the company's Lake County, Ill. diagnostic manufacturing operations under a 1999 consent decree. In the interim, the unit has been headed by a senior management team (1"The Gray Sheet" June 17, 2002, p. 25)...