Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, member of the UK House of Lords, and Haig S. Bagerdjian, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Medical Solutions, accept the invitation of the Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan to join NCFA Board of Trustees. Ara Darzi Ara Darzi was knighted for his services in medicine and surgery in 2002. In 2007 Professor Darzi was introduced to the United Kingdom’s House of Lords as Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham and appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health. He relinquished in July 2009 when he was appointed the United Kingdom’s Global Ambassador for Health and Life Sciences, and Chair of NHS Global as well as United Kingdom Business Ambassador, an appointment re-confirmed in 2010 by Prime Minister David Cameron. Lord Darzi was appointed as a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in June 2009. Haig Bagerdjian Mr. Bagerdjian serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Medical Solutions. Global Medical Solutions is a leading-edge provider of nuclear medicine and diagnostic imaging products and services. It operates in Australia, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand. Sites owned by Global Medical Solutions include radiopharmacies, nuclear medicine departments, drug distribution centers, cold kit manufacturing plants, PET scanning departments, a PET cyclotron, cardiac catheter lab, linear accelerator, gamma knife, chemotherapy compounding center, and a radioisotope manufacturing center. He also serves as the director of Los Angeles Opera. Public Relations Office National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia

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