San Diego-based CareFusion (NYSE: [[tickerCFN]]), the medical equipment company that was spun out by Cardinal Health (NYSE:[[ticker:CAH)]] in late 2009, today named Kieran Gallahue as chairman and CEO, succeeding David Schlotterbeck, who had previously announced his retirement.
CareFusion, which posted $3.9 billion in sales last year, is a medical technology company with such established products as Alaris intravenous pumps, Pyxis automated dispensing and patient identification systems, ventilators and respiratory equipment, surgical prep products, and diagnostic products.
Gallahue, 47, was previously the president and CEO of San Diego-based ResMed (NYSE: [[ticker:RMD)]], which specializes in medical technology for treating, diagnosing, and managing sleep-related respiratory disorders. Gallahue joined ResMed in 2003 as president and COO of the Americas and was named global president and COO in September 2004. He took over as CEO from ResMed founder Peter Farrell in January, 2008.
Kieran Gallahue
Gallahue has nearly 20 years of strategic, operational, and corporate management experience in the health care industry. Before joining ResMed, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Nanogen, a San Diego DNA research and medical diagnostics firm, and at Instrumentation Laboratory, which specializes in diagnostic instruments for critical care and hemostatsis. He also held marketing, sales, and financial positions at The Procter & Gamble Company and General Electric.
Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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