Executive Change

8-K 1 pvct8k060408.htm PVCT 8K 06-04-08 UNITED STATE S SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 8-K CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Date of Report (date of earliest event reported):  June 5, 2008   Nevada 0-9410 90-0031917 (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) 7327 Oak Ridge Hwy., Knoxville, Tennessee 37931 (Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (866) 594-5999 (Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code) Check the appropriate box if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions: [  ] Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) [  ] Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) [  ] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) [  ] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR.13e-4(c))       Item 5.02  Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.        On June 3, 2008, the board of directors of Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Kelly M. McMasters, MD, PhD, to serve as a member of the Board of Directors.  A copy of the related press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.        Dr. McMasters received his undergraduate training at Colgate University prior to completing the MD/PhD program at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University. He then completed the residency program in General Surgery at the University of Louisville, and a fellowship in Surgical Oncology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He is currently the Sam and Lolita Weakley Professor of Surgical Oncology at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, a position he has held since 1996. Since 2005, he has chaired the Department of Surgery at the University of Louisville and also has been Chief of Surgery at University of Louisville Hospital. Since 2000, he has also been Director of the Multidisciplinary Melanoma Clinic of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville. His is an active member of the surgery staff at the University of Louisville Hospital, Norton Hospital and Jewish Hospital in Louisville. He is on the editorial boards of the Annals of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Therapy and the Journal of Clinical Oncology as well as an ad hoc reviewer for 9 other publications. He holds several honors, chief among them is "Physician of the Year" awarded by the Kentucky Chapter of the American Cancer Society. He is the author and principal investigator (PI) of the Sunbelt Melanoma Trial, a multi-institutional study involving 3500 patients from 79 institutions across North America and one of the largest prospective melanoma studies ever performed. He has been a PI, Co-PI or local PI in over thirty clinical trials ranging from Phase 1 to Phase 3. For the past 12 years he has also directed a basic and translational science laboratory studying adenovirus-mediated cancer gene therapy funded by the American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).   Item 9.01  Financial Statements and Exhibits   Exhibit Number        Description of Exhibit -----------       ----------------------------- 99.1               Press Release of Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. dated June 3, 2008.         SIGNATURES        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.     Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.           Date:  June 5, 2008 By: /s/ Peter Culpepper       Title:  Chief Financial Officer