Singapore, Oct 19, 2009: The Charlottesville based Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, which has a mission is to develop new applications for, and to accelerate the worldwide adoption of Focused Ultrasound, has announced the election of Mr Steve Rusckowski to its Board of Directors.

 

Mr. Rusckowski became the Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer of Philips Healthcare in November, 2006, and has been a member of the Philips Board of Management since April 2007. He was previously the CEO of the Imaging Systems business group of Philips Healthcare.

 

Before joining Philips, Mr. Rusckowski held numerous management positions with the healthcare division of Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies. He was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Healthcare Solutions Group when Philips acquired this business in 2001.

 

Mr. Rusckowski was born in 1957 in the United States and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Masters in management science from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management.

 

The other members of the Foundation Board of Directors are Dorothy Batten; Dr S. Morry Blumenfeld, Founding Partner of Meditech Advisors Management; Eugene V. Fife, Chairman of Eclipsys Corporation; best-selling author John Grisham; David Heller, Chairman of Advisory Research Inc.; Dan Jordan, former President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation; Dr Neal F. Kassell, Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia; and Dr Kobi Vortman, CEO of InSightec.

 

The Foundation's activities include: funding translational and clinical research, providing fellowships for training physicians and scientists, hosting symposia and workshops, maintaining online informational resources, and establishing new centers of excellence.