Dr. Nancy Auer, CMO of Swedish Medical Center, Joins FiatLux Imaging Advisory Board

Nationally Recognized CMO Lends More Than 25 years of Expertise to FiatLux Imaging

KIRKLAND, WA—July 6, 2007—FiatLux Imaging, a medical imaging software company, announced that Nancy Auer, M.D. will be joining their advisory board. Dr. Auer is an emergency medical physician who currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer of Swedish Health Center.

Dr. Auer currently oversees the management of medical education, medical staff services, the medical directors, physician relationship building, clinical research, coordinated care and discharge planning, international patient and physician services, Swedish's Institutional Review Board and the medical center's adult hospitalist program. Dr. Auer has been at Swedish for 25 years, serving in various key positions, including chief of staff, medical director of Emergency Services and vice president of medical affairs. As a member of the FiatLux Imaging advisory board she will directly impact next generation medical imaging software and its application in improving healthcare.

"Dr. Auer's wealth of knowledge will enable us to develop software that is truly useful to the widest range of physicians," said John Pella, FiatLux Imaging's Chief Software Architect. Recognized as one of the top emergency-medicine physicians in the country, Dr. Auer was the first woman president of the American College of Emergency Physicians. In October 2001, she received ACEP's annual John G. Wiegenstein Leadership Award for being an inspirational, innovative leader with excellent management and decision-making skills. She was also elected an honorary member of ACEP for her outstanding service to the medical profession and to the college. She has served as president of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine and is past chair of the Emergency Medicine Foundation. She has also served as the medical director of the Seattle/King County Disaster Team since 1990 and is a past president of the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA) and chair of WSMA's Executive Committee. Currently, she serves as a Board member for the Washington Health Foundation. Dr. Auer was recently appointed volunteer medical director of bioterrorism planning for the state. Board-certified in emergency medicine, Dr. Auer lectures often and has been published numerous times. Just a few examples include her testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the growing crisis of drug abuse among children, her chapter on emergency treatment of head injuries in the National Medical Students Handbook of Emergency Medicine and her speech on "Women in Organized Medicine" to the Congress of Neurosurgery. Dr. Auer is a graduate of the University of Chattanooga, where she was also a teaching fellow in the department of biology. She earned her medical degree from the University of Tennessee Medical School and completed her surgery internship in City of Memphis Hospitals. Her residency was done at the University of Tennessee Medical School. She received her leadership/management training at the Battelle Institute in Seattle.