Allied Healthcare Appoints Playford Advisor


 

TIDMAHI 
 
 
Allied Healthcare International Inc 
03 June 2010 
 
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Allied Healthcare International Inc. Appoints Professor Raymond J. 
Playford as Medical Advisor to the Board 
 
Appointment Strengthens Clinical Governance 
 
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKETWIRE) -- 06/03/10 --   Allied Healthcare 
International Inc. (NASDAQ: AHCI) (AIM: AHI) ("Allied"), a leading 
provider of flexible healthcare staffing services in the United 
Kingdom, today announced that Professor Raymond J. Playford, PhD, 
CertMng, FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci, FRSA, DSc, has been appointed to the 
new post of Medical Advisor to the Board. 
 
"We are delighted to welcome Professor Playford to our team," 
commented Dr. Jeff Peris, Chairman of Allied Healthcare. "His wealth 
of clinical, healthcare and NHS expertise will both support our 
commitment to providing our customers with one of the highest levels 
of quality care in our industry and to enhancing the leadership of 
Allied Healthcare. I very much look forward to working with him." 
 
Prof. Playford has more than 25 years of experience in the medical 
field, specialising in clinical research. He is currently Deputy 
Warden and Professor of Medicine at Barts and the London School of 
Medicine and Dentistry, as well as Vice Principal (NHS Liaison), 
Queen Mary, University of London. Prof. Playford is also a 
non-Executive Director of Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust 
and has also been an advisor to both the UK Government and the 
healthcare industry. 
 
Prof. Playford received a Medical degree (M.B., B.S.) in 1978 from 
St. Bartholomew's Medical School and his PhD in 1992 from the Royal 
Postgraduate Medical School at Imperial College, London. He is a 
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) and the Royal College 
of Pathologists (UK) and was Visiting Professor, Harvard Medical 
School and Massachusetts General Hospital in 2002. He has published 
over 100 original scientific and clinical papers and received several 
awards for research including the British Society of Gastroenterology 
(BSG) Sir Francis Avery Jones Research Medal in 1995 and Canadian 
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research in 2004. He was made 
a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Scientists in 2002 and, as a 
result of his contribution to public education on health matters, 
became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2000. 
 
ABOUT ALLIED HEALTHCARE INTERNATIONAL INC. 
 
Allied Healthcare International Inc. is a leading provider of 
flexible healthcare staffing services in the United Kingdom. Allied 
operates a community-based network of over 110 branches with the 
capacity to provide carers (known as home health aides in the U.S.), 
nurses, and specialized medical personnel to locations covering 
approximately 90% of the U.K. population. Allied meets the needs of 
private patients, community care, nursing and care homes, and 
hospitals. For more news and information please visit: 
www.alliedhealthcare.com. 
 
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS 
 
Certain statements contained in this news release may be 
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are 
based on current expectations and projections about future events. 
Actual results could differ materially from those discussed in, or 
implied by, these forward-looking statements. Factors that could 
cause actual results to differ from those implied by the 
forward-looking statements include: general economic and market 
conditions; Allied's ability to continue to recruit and retain 
flexible healthcare staff; Allied's ability to enter into contracts 
with local government social services departments, NHS Trusts, 
hospitals, other healthcare facility clients and private clients on 
terms attractive to Allied; the general level of demand for 
healthcare and social care; dependence on the proper functioning of 
Allied's information systems; the effect of existing or future 
government regulation of the healthcare and social care industry, and 
Allied's ability to comply with these regulations; the impact of 
medical malpractice and other claims asserted against Allied; the 
effect of regulatory change that may apply to Allied and that may 
increase costs and reduce revenues and profitability; Allied's 
ability to use net operating loss carry forwards to offset net 
income; the effect that fluctuations in foreign currency exchange 
rates may have on our dollar-denominated results of operations; and 
the impairment of goodwill, of which Allied has a substantial amount 
on the balance sheet, may have the effect of decreasing earnings or 
increasing losses. Other factors that could cause actual results to 
differ from those implied by the forward-looking statements in this 
press release include those described in Allied's most recently filed 
SEC documents, such as its most recent annual report on Form 10-K, 
all quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and any current reports on Form 
8-K filed since the date of the last Form 10-K. Allied undertakes no 
obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking 
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or 
otherwise. 
 
CONTACT 
 
Allied Healthcare International Inc. 
Sandy Young 
Chief Executive Officer 
Paul Weston 
Chief Financial Officer 
+44 1785 810600 
 
Or 
 
Piper Jaffray Ltd. (Nominated Advisor) 
Matthew Flower 
Rupert Winckler 
+44 20 3142 8700 
 
Or 
 
ICR Inc. 
Sherry Bertner 
Managing Director 
+1 646 277 1200 
Sherry.Bertner@icrinc.com 
 
 
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