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Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts) reported that Keith Dawkins, MD, and Takahiro Uchida, MD, will be joining the company’s clinical sciences organization.

Dawkins will serve as senior VP and associate chief medical officer, sitting on both the clinical leadership team and the company’s operating committee. Dawkins is an internationally known senior interventional cardiologist at Southampton University Hospital (Southampton, England), and a former president of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Uchida, who will serve as a director in clinical research and as international medical director. After training with the Japanese pharmaceuticals and medical devices agency (PMDA), Uchida became a research fellow in the division of clinical biometrics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard Clinical Research Institute (both Boston). Most recently, Uchida has served as a medical officer in the interventional cardiovascular device branch of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the FDA.