Wendy D. Lynch, Ph.D., Joins Angeion's Board of Directors

SAINT PAUL, Minn., March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Angeion Corporation (NASDAQ: ANGN) today announced that Wendy D. Lynch, Ph.D., has been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors, effective March 1, 2012.

Dr. Lynch is currently Co-Director of the Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care at the Altarum Institute. She also currently holds a position as Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Nursing at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis and since 2002 has served as President of Lynch Consulting, Ltd, which provides multi-disciplinary consulting focusing on Human Capital Management, Health and Productivity and Program Evaluation.

Dr. Lynch has been making the connection between employee health and business outcomes for almost 20 years. Her career includes roles as faculty at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, senior scientist at Health Decisions International, and principal and senior consultant at Mercer Human Resource Consulting.

"Dr. Lynch brings unique healthcare industry knowledge and experience to the Angeion Board of Directors. Her expertise across a broad spectrum of the healthcare industry, in organizational productivity, motivation, management and leadership, will be of significant strategic value to our Board.  We look forward to her insight and guidance in the direction and governance of the organization," said Mark Sheffert, Chairman of the Angeion Board of Directors.

From 2006 through 2010, Dr. Lynch also served as executive director of an education and research foundation called the Health as Human Capital Foundation, a nonprofit, non-partisan think tank providing independent information for policy makers. Dr. Lynch earned her Doctorate Degree in Research and Evaluation Methodology, her Masters Degree in Physical Education – Measurement and Exercise Physiology and her Bachelors Degree, with honors, in Physical Education, from the University of Colorado.  Her work experience includes roles as consultant, author and educator. As a consultant, Lynch has applied her skills in research design and evaluation to several pivotal studies in the fields of health management, productivity assessment and human capital management that have resulted in more than 50 published studies and articles. Most recently, she co-authored the books, "Who Survives: How Benefits Costs are Killing Your Company," and "Aligning Incentives, Information, and Choice: How to Optimize Health and Human Capital Performance."

The addition of Dr. Lynch to the board brings to seven the number of members comprising the board, five of whom are independent directors under Nasdaq Rules.

About Angeion Corporation
Founded in 1986, Angeion Corporation acquired Medical Graphics Corporation in December 1999. Medical Graphics develops, manufactures and markets non-invasive cardiorespiratory diagnostic systems that are sold under the MedGraphics (www.medgraphics.com) and New Leaf (www.newleaffitness.com) brand names. These cardiorespiratory product lines provide solutions for disease detection, integrated care, and wellness across the entire spectrum of health – whether managing chronic illness, promoting fitness, or training for the Olympics. The Company's products are sold internationally through distributors and in the United States through a direct sales force that targets heart and lung specialists located in hospitals, university-based medical centers, medical clinics and physicians' offices, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, clinical research organizations, health and fitness clubs, personal training studios, and other exercise facilities. For more information about Angeion, visit www.angeion.com.

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