Industry News: September 2005

Wheeled Coach, Inc., announced that Tim Hutchens has joined the company as VP of sales. Wheeled Coach, a wholly owned subsidiary of Collins Industries, Inc., is the world’s largest manufacturer of ambulances. Hutchens will be responsible for all aspects of the organization, including national account sales, the authorized representative network and the national direct sales organization. He will report directly to President Robert Collins. Hutchens holds a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Texas in Arlington, TX. For more, go to www.collinsind.com.

SAM Medical Products, creator and manufacturer of innovative medical products for emergency and hospital care, has announced that two of its products were honored among the best consumer products of 2005 by the International Design Magazine.. A leading publication covering the art and culture of design, I.D. Magazine chose SAM’s Soft Shell Splint and Blist-0-Ban skin bandage for recognition out of approximately 2,000 products in its Annual Design Review, America’s most prestigious juried design competition. A third product, the SAM Splint, was selected for exhibit by the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Founded by Sam Scheinberg, MD, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, and his wife Cherrie, the Newport and Portland, OR-based company has quietly become the market leader in emergency splinting products. A previous winner of the Governors Exporter of the Year Award and the Small Business Exporter of the Year award, SAM Medical Products has successfully operated under the radar following its belief that “the simplest design solution is usually the most elegant.”

National Paramedic Institute, Inc. announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Medtronic, Inc., (NYSE: MDT), the global leader in medical technology, to distribute the institute’s annual video subscription series, the Medic Monthly. This physician-directed continuing education series offers innovative case-based learning for first responders, EMTs and paramedics on VHS, DVD and online streaming video. Videotaped using actual medics in the field dealing with medical situations, it is the only program written and hosted by a physician. Each issue meets National Registry requirements and the series is approved by the Continuing Education Coordinating Board for Emergency Medical Services (CECBEMS) for 12 CE hours per year.

Raytheon JPS Communications, an innovator in key communications interoperability technologies for local, regional, statewide and wide area applications, has appointed Sandy Waters as VP of sales and marketing. Waters will be responsible for the company’s global sales and marketing strategy and its execution in the company’s federal, state, public safety, military, commercial and international markets. In his more than 30 years experience in high-tech markets, strategic and business planning, and product and business development, Waters has been a manager and senior contributor at Digital Equipment Corporation, Nortel, Allied Bunker-Ramo and Perkin-Elmer; consultant or chief marketing officer to a number of start-up companies; and a member of the Senior Executive Service corps at the Department of Commerce for the National Technological Information Service (NTIS). Visit www.jps.com for more.