• Digirad (Poway, California) has named veteran healthcare executives Steven Mendell and Lloyd Malchow to its board of directors, effective immediately. Mendell most recently was president/CEO of LMA North America. Since 1999, Malchow has been president/CEO SenoRx. Digirad makes diagnostic imaging products.

• PPD (Wilmington, North Carolina) said that its board has promoted Fredric Eshelman, vice chairman and CEO of PPD, to the newly created position of executive chairman of the board. PPD also announced that Brig. Gen. David Grange (retired), a member of PPD's board of directors since 2003, has been named PPD's new CEO. These appointments will be effective July 1, 2009. Grange comes to PPD after a decade of service to the McCormick Foundation, first as executive VP/COO, and as president/CEO since 2005. PPD is a contract research organization.