ATLANTA: Spearman named CRO at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center have appointed Paul W. Spearman, MD, chief research officer for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and as vice chair of Research in the Department of Pediatrics, Emory School of Medicine. Spearman, who was selected following a nationwide search of candidates, has been division director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Emory since November 2005, when he joined Emory from Vanderbilt University's Department of Pediatrics.