Paradigm Announces Three Additions to Its Board of Directors

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Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:00am EDT

  CONCORD, CA, Apr 17 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
 Paradigm Management Services, LLC, the nation's leader in providing
catastrophic and complex
medical management services, today announced three new members to its Board of
Directors.

    Roger Jenkins, Ph.D. has joined the Board and the Compensation Committee.
Dr. Jenkins
is the Dean of the Farmer School of Business at Miami University of Ohio and
previously held the F.M. Kirby Chair in Business Excellence at Wake Forest
University.  He has held positions as President & CEO of a Knoxville, TN
based management and marketing consulting firm and from 1993-95 he served as
director, president and chief operating officer of Goody's Family Clothing, a
national retail operation. He has been published in the Harvard Business Review,
the
Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Marketing Research.

    Jay Himmelstein, M.D. recently joined the Board and is the chair of the
Medical Outcomes and Quality Assurance Committee.  Dr. Himmelstein is
Assistant Chancellor for Health Policy at the University of Massachusetts
Medical
School. Dr. Himmelstein is a board certified physician in Internal Medicine and
Occupational Health/Preventive Medicine. He was selected to be a Robert Wood
Johnson Health Policy Fellow and became a member of the health staff for the
Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee where he worked on issues of
national health reform and integration of workers' compensation with other
health
and disability benefit systems. He is currently the Director of The Robert
Wood Johnson Workers' Compensation Health Initiative. Dr. Himmelstein continues
to
maintain his health policy research interests including Medicaid policy and
workers' compensation medical care.

    Frederick M. Hudson has joined the Board of Paradigm and has been named
chair
of the Audit Committee. Mr. Hudson retired from KPMG where he was partner in
charge of KPMG's health care audit practice in the Washington-Baltimore
business unit. This practice unit was KPMG's largest health care audit practice
in the US. During his 37 year career, he has held a number of leadership
positions in KPMG including Partner in charge of the private business advisory
services practice and Venture capital liaison partner. His experience spans that
of fast-growing emerging technology businesses to initial public offerings to
acquisition-orientedFortune 500 companies.

    "These highly respected professionals bring marketing, strategy, medical
policy
and quality, financial audit and advisory skill sets to the company during a
time
in which we are building and investing in these critically important areas,"
said
Robert Fahlman, Chief Executive Officer of Paradigm. "Roger, Jay and Fred offer
our organization proven capabilities and strategic thinking that cover a broad
range of
healthcare experience and deep knowledge in both the public and private sectors
as well as academia."

    About Paradigm Management Services, LLC

    Paradigm Management Services, LLC is the nation's leader in providing
catastrophic and complex medical management services.  Over the past two
decades,
Paradigm has specialized in the management of injured people who have
sustained complex brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, severe or complex burns,
multipletrauma or chronic pain.  Paradigm provides the nation's most effective
solution for
managing individuals with catastrophic and complex injuries, by committing to
and
achieving optimal clinical and functional outcomes, facilitating proactive
medical
interventions and delivering the best return to work rate in the industry.  For
additional information about the organization, please visit the web at
www.paradigmcorp.com.

    

Paradigm Management Services, LLC Press/Media Inquiries
Daniel Bussius
Director, Marketing & Communications
1001 Galaxy Way Suite 300
Concord, CA 94520
Direct: (925) 677-4748

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