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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-031540"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AMS"
cik: "0000744825"
company_name: "AMERICAN SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES"
filed_at: "2024-10-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T12:55:27.918412+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# American Shared Hospital appoints Gary Delanois as COO, promotes Ranjit Pradhan to SVP Sales

## Summary
- Gary Delanois appointed EVP and COO effective Oct 14, 2024; replaces Craig Tagawa who remains President.
- Delanois receives $325k base salary, performance bonus up to $30k for 2024, and 120,000 RSUs vesting over 5 years.
- Ranjit Pradhan promoted to SVP Sales and Marketing; renewed/expanded five of ten domestic Gamma Knife agreements in past 18 months.
- Delanois brings 28 years of healthcare management experience, previously SVP US Operations at 21st Century Oncology.
- CEO Ray Stachowiak says appointment aligns with growth strategy to expand treatment volumes and cancer-fighting technology access.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-031540
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AMS
- cik: 0000744825
- company_name: AMERICAN SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES
- filed_at: 2024-10-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/744825/000143774924031540/0001437749-24-031540-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/744825/000143774924031540/asha20241018_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-24-031540.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gary Delanois was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at AMERICAN SHARED HOSPITAL SERVICES.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On October 8, 2024, American Shared Hospital Services (the “Company”) approved the appointment of Mr. Gary Delanois as an Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company, effective October 14, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/744825/000143774924031540/0001437749-24-031540-index.htm

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