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Russ Pagano, Ph.D. joined the Company effective May 23, 2007 in the position of vice president of regulatory and clinical affairs. Dr. Pagano received his Ph.D. from Duke University and joined the US Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") as a scientific reviewer in the Office of Device Evaluation in 1994. He served as FDA chief of the Restorative Devices Branch, which included a portion of the organization's orthopedic products from 1997 to 2000 and FDA chief of the Pacing, Defibrillators and Leads Branch from October 2000 to May 2001. Since that time, he has been executive vice president and regulatory advisor at M Squared Associates, a consulting firm in Washington D.C. In that capacity, Dr. Pagano served as a regulatory consultant to BioMimetic and numerous other companies. | 