December 2, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Patient Safety Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: PSTX) has appointed Marc L. Rose to the position of chief financial officer, treasurer and Corporate secretary, replacing Mary M. Lay, who has been acting CFO since 2008. Prior to joining Patient Safety Technologies, Rose was vice president Finance, chief financial officer, treasurer and Corporate secretary of Protalex, a biotechnology company.

In addition to his experience at Protalex, Rose was the chief financial officer at DentalEZ Group, a privately held manufacturer. He has also served as a Practice Manager for Oracle Consulting Services, a Controller with Waste Management and an Auditor with Ernst & Young.

California-based Patient Safety Technologies, through its wholly owned operating subsidiary SurgiCount Medical, provides the Safety-Sponge System, a system designed to improve the standard of patient care and reduce healthcare costs by preventing the occurrence of surgical sponges and other foreign objects from being left inside patients after surgery.

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