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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-113452"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RMTI"
cik: "0001041024"
company_name: "ROCKWELL MEDICAL, INC."
filed_at: "2025-11-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T18:41:29.649565+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rockwell Medical director resigns; Joseph H. Dawson appointed to board

## Summary
- Director Andrea Heslin Smiley resigned Nov 17, 2025; resignation not due to disagreement.
- Joseph H. Dawson appointed as Class II director effective Nov 17, 2025, to serve until 2026 annual meeting.
- Dawson, 60, former President North America of Nipro Medical (2013-2025), also joined Nominating Committee.
- Director compensation: $45k cash retainer + $5k committee fee (pro-rated), plus option for 25k shares and 25k RSUs vesting Nov 17, 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-113452
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RMTI
- cik: 0001041024
- company_name: ROCKWELL MEDICAL, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-11-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041024/000110465925113452/0001104659-25-113452-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041024/000110465925113452/tm2531538d1_8k.htm

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