• Robert Jablonski was named regional manager of Pacific Northwest for Beacon Partners (Weymouth, Massachusetts). Most recently, Jablonski operated a healthcare consulting practice in Seattle for more than eight years. Beacon Partners is a healthcare consulting company.

• Cook Medical (Bloomington, Indiana) reported the development of a new business entity and promotions for long-time employees Neal Fearnot, Matt Waninger and Bill Gibbons, effective June 1. Fearnot will become chairman of the board for MED Institute after serving for 26 years as founding president and will continue as a VP of Cook Group. Waninger, VP of engineering at Cook Inc., will take Fearnot's place as president of MED Institute. Gibbon, currently president of Cook Endoscopy, will be the new VP of engineering at Cook Inc.

• Jon Tremmel was named to the board of EnteroMedics (St. Paul, Minnesota). Tremmel has almost 30 years of leadership experience as an executive at Medtronic. EnteroMedics is a development stage medical device company focused on the design and development of devices that use neuroblocking technology to treat obesity and other gastrointestinal disorders.

• Chris Lundgren was named VP of sales for Healthcare Data Solutions (Foothill Ranch, California). Lundgren most recently was involved in business development consulting as a founding member of Advantage Insight. Healthcare Data Solutions is an original source data compilation company focused on building and distributing physician, pharmacy and dentist databases. HDS provides healthcare data, data processing, web services and new customer acquisition programs for leading healthcare marketing firms.