UltraSPECT appoints new director of sales

UltraSPECT Inc. has named John W. Schaumburg as its director of sales, North America. Schaumburg has over 25 years of diagnostic imaging and nuclear cardiology sales, management and business development experience. Schaumburg is responsible for the sales and overall business development for UltraSPECT within the US and Canada.

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