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OPKO Health Appoints Pascal J. Goldschmidt to Board of Directors
Date:10/1/2007

MIAMI, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OPKO Health Inc. (Amex: OPK) has announced the appointment of Pascal J. Goldschmidt, M.D. to its Board of Directors. Dr. Goldschmidt is the Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Goldschmidt formerly served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center.

"We are delighted to welcome an exceptional healthcare leader like Pascal Goldschmidt to our Board," said Phillip Frost, M.D., Chairman and CEO of OPKO Health. "We expect the insight and experience gained from his distinguished record of achievement at several of our most respected academic medical institutions will be very valuable to our efforts to build a successful company dedicated to providing novel diagnostic and therapeutic products to physicians and their patients."

Before assuming his current position, Dr. Goldschmidt was Chief of Cardiology and then promoted to Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. Earlier in his career, Dr. Goldschmidt was Director of Cardiology at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, where he built the Heart and Lung Research Institute and a cardiology specialty hospital.

Dr. Goldschmidt serves on the Board of Directors of Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. He received an M.D. degree from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and completed residency and fellowship training in Belgium at Erasme Academic Hospital and in the United States at The Johns Hopkins University.

About OPKO Health, Inc.

Miami-based OPKO is a specialty healthcare company. Its lead investigational drug, the pioneering gene silencing agent beva
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