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April 3, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Julie Rosen, Executive Director
617-724-1778

Healthcare Technology Executive Olivia Ho Cheng Appointed to Kenneth B. Schwartz Center Board

Boston, MA – The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers, has appointed Olivia Ho Cheng to its board of directors.

Cheng, of Andover, MA, is president and CEO of Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc., as well as a member of the company’s board of directors. Aurora developed and manufactures the Aurora® 1.5T Dedicated Breast MRI System.  The Aurora System is the only Food and Drug Administration-cleared MRI system specifically designed for breast imaging. 

“Getting Olivia on our board is a tremendous coup for us,” said Julie Rosen, executive director of the Schwartz Center, which is housed at Massachusetts General Hospital. “She brings passion, intelligence and an impressive background in finance and the health care industry to the Schwartz Center and we are so pleased to welcome her.”

“As a developer of leading-edge medical technology, we share the same goal with physicians and other caregivers: to achieve the best possible clinical results for patients, which includes physical curing of the disease and wellness of the soul,” said Cheng. “I greatly admire the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center’s efforts in educating and promoting the importance of the human touch of kindness and love to patients in their time of great need. It is a distinct honor to be named to the board of the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, and I look forward to being part of this group of outstanding and care giving professionals to further the mission.”

Cheng has enjoyed a long career serving in top management at leading medical technology companies in the United States and Taiwan.  She also spent more than a decade in the commercial banking industry as a corporate banker. She graduated from National Chengchi University in Taiwan and has a Master’s Degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

About the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center

Shortly before his death from lung cancer in September 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz established a Center dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers.  The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center is an autonomous, nonprofit organization with a mission to support and advance compassionate health care in which caregivers, patients and their families relate to one another in a way that provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and sustenance to the healing process.  The Center’s most successful and fastest growing program, the Schwartz Center Rounds, operates at 108 sites in 26 states.