Luminex Corp. elected Kenneth Samet as a class II director, effective immediately.
Samet has been the CEO of MedStar Health Inc., a Columbia, Md.-based provider of healthcare services in the Washington, D.C., region and surrounding states, since 2008.
The election follows the expansion of the Luminex board to nine members from eight.
Austin, Texas-based Luminex manufactures and sells proprietary biological testing technologies and products for the global diagnostics, pharmaceutical and research industries.