CommonHealth Adds to Its Shared Services Department.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- CommonHealth, the world's leading healthcare-communications network and a WPP Group (NASDAQ/ADR: WPPGY; www.wpp.com) company, today announced four new hires to its shared services department.

Teri Park, R.Ph., joins CommonHealth as vice president, business development. In this position, Ms. Park will identify and cultivate business opportunities for all CommonHealth divisions. Most recently, Ms. Park was employed at Access Worldwide in New York City as vice president, business development in the area of medical education.

Frank Tirone joins CommonHealth as a business intelligence analyst. Mr. Tirone will maintain and implement business intelligence in order to gain business advantage from data. Prior to joining CommonHealth, Mr. Tirone worked for Fisher Scientific in Fair Lawn as data warehouse manager.

Margarita Oganesyan comes to CommonHealth as a financial administrator. Ms. Oganesyan's responsibilities include job cost maintenance, billing, collections, client budget adherence and client reporting. Prior to joining CommonHealth, Ms. Oganesyan was employed at EchoStar/Dish Network in Pine Brook as a multilingual customer service representative.

Anita Iyengar joins CommonHealth as a Java/WebSphere portal developer. She will be responsible for architecting and designing applications for the CommonHealth intranet portal. Ms. Iyengar was previously employed at Panasonic in Secaucus as a Java/portal developer.

CommonHealth comprises Adient, Altum, Carbon, Conectics, Ferguson, HLS, MBS/Vox, Noesis, ProCom, Qi, Quantum, Solara and Xchange. The organization also maintains numerous partnerships both within and outside of the WPP Group network of companies.