secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     FONAR CORP (FONR)
CIK:        0000355019
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2022-08-11T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000355019-22-000036
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.85
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

FONAR founder and Chairman Raymond Damadian dies at 86
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- Chairman Raymond V. Damadian, founder of FONAR and inventor of MRI, passed away on August 3, 2022.
- Damadian conceived MRI in 1969, built first scanner in 1977, and founded FONAR in 1978.
- President and CEO Timothy Damadian (son) states management team will keep FONAR profitable.
- No immediate successor to Chairman role announced; Timothy Damadian remains President and CEO.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355019/000035501922000036/0000355019-22-000036-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/355019/000035501922000036/fonar_8-k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000355019-22-000036

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