• William Young has been appointed vice president of quality assurance and reliability for the Cardiac Rhythm Management group of Boston Scientific (Natick, Massachusetts). He will be based at the company’s St. Paul, Minnesota, facility. Prior to joining Boston Scientific, Young served as vice president of quality assurance and regulatory affairs for Smiths Medical in London. He is a member of the FDA’s Industrial Sterilization Training Cadre, co-chair of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Sterilization Standards Committee and chairman of the International Standards Organization Sterilization Standards Committee.

• Cambridge Heart (Bedford, Massachusetts) has hired Mark Florence as vice president, sales and marketing. Most recently Florence was vice president of sales at CardioDynamics. Robert LaRoche, former vice president, sales and marketing, has left the company to pursue other interests. Cambridge Heart dev-elops products for the noninvasive diagnosis of cardiac disease.

• Alan Totah has joined MicroMed Cardiovascular (Houston) as senior vice president, regulatory affairs and quality systems. Totah previously served as vice president of regulatory affairs and quality systems for Cyberonics. MicroMed makes heart failure products, including the DeBakey VAD (ventricular-assist device) for the treatment of advanced heart failure.