• Karon Morell is joining Artes Medical (San Diego) as its new vice president, regulatory and quality affairs. The company makes non-resorbable injectable dermal filler for the correction of nasolabial folds.

• Barry Wilson has been elected to serve as independent director and chairman of the board of Heartscape Technologies (Columbia, Maryland), which makes an FDA-approved device that diagnoses heart attacks and ischemia.

• Scot Dube has been named vice president of sales at InterCure (New York), manufacturer of the Resperate hypertension treatment device.

• John Goodacre has been appointed executive vice president and general counsel of Quintiles Transnational (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina). Quintiles provides a broad range of professional services in drug development, financial partnering and commercialization for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries.

• Smith & Nephew’s (Memphis) Orthopaedic Trauma & Clinical Therapies Global Business Unit has named Dwayne Montgomery vice president and general manager of trauma fixation and promoted Bill Shopoff to senior vice president of international business.

• Rafael Espinal has been appointed VP of manufacturing at Vyteris (Fair Lawn, New Jersey), manufacturer of LidoSite, a transdermal patch for pain associated with blood draws, IV cannulations and laser ablation of superficial skin lesions.