---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-120657"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABT"
cik: "0000001800"
company_name: "ABBOTT LABORATORIES"
filed_at: "2025-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:22:43.447284+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Abbott names Nita Ahuja to Board of Directors; board expands to 13 members

## Summary
- Nita Ahuja, M.D. appointed to Abbott’s Board of Directors effective December 12, 2025.
- Board size increased from 12 to 13 members via bylaw amendment on the same date.
- Amended and restated by-laws filed as Exhibit 99.1; no additional details on Dr. Ahuja provided.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-120657
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABT
- cik: 0000001800
- company_name: ABBOTT LABORATORIES
- filed_at: 2025-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465925120657/0001104659-25-120657-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465925120657/tm2533113d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-120657.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ABBOTT LABORATORIES: Increased board size from twelve to thirteen directors by amending Article III, Section 2 of the by-laws (effective 2025-12-12).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-12-12
  source text: On December 12, 2025, Abbott’s Board of Directors amended the first sentence of Article III, Section 2 of Abbott’s by-laws to provide that Abbott’s Board of Directors shall consist of thirteen persons, effective as of December 12, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1800/000110465925120657/0001104659-25-120657-index.htm

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