SonoSite Marketing Boss Resigns to Take Job at Smith & Nephew

Sonosite, the Bothell, WA-based maker of portable ultrasound machines, said today that Thomas Dugan, its senior vice president of global marketing and U.S. sales, is resigning as of Sept. 11. He is taking a new job as president of the North American business within the Advanced Wound Management Division of the medical device company Smith & Nephew (NYSE: [[ticker:SNN]]). Dugan joined Sonosite (NASDAQ: [[ticker:SONO]]) in 2005.

Author: Luke Timmerman

Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.