Pyng Technologies Announces Dr. Charles V. Pollack Jr. to Join Board.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2000

Pyng Tech. Corp.(CDNX:PYT) (OTC Bulletin Board:PYNGF)

Mr. Michael W. Jacobs, President of Pyng Technologies Corp., is honored to announce that Dr. Charles V. Pollack Jr., M.A., M.D., FACEP, has placed his name forward for Board Membership with Pyng Technologies. Dr. Pollack is the Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Arizona Heart Hospital and Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona. He also serves as Chairman of the National Research Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Dr. Pollack's extensive emergency medical background will be very valuable to the Board, as his Curriculum Vitae and Biosketch attest. Dr. Pollack has been a very strong supporter of the F.A.S.T.1 System for Adult Intraosseous Infusion, which was researched, developed, and produced by Pyng Medical Corp, a subsidiary of Pyng Technologies.

Pyng Technologies Corp. is expected to confirm expansion of its Board to four members at its Annual General Meeting, to be held on February 23rd, 2000. The addition of Dr. Pollack as a new Board Member of Pyng Technologies Corp. is fully supported by the Board, and is indicative of the corporate changes that the Company intends to put in place over the next few weeks. Pyng will implement a number of changes to reflect its shift from research and development to a profit-orientated full manufacturer of emergency medical devices.

Summary Biosketch

Charles Victor Pollack, Jr., M.A., M.D., FACEP

Dr. Charles Pollack, a native of central Alabama, earned his bachelor's degrees in chemistry and history and his M.A. degree in the history of science and medicine from Emory University in 1980. He graduated summa cum laude and was elected to both Phi Beta Kappa and Emory's Stipe Society of Scholars. He then attended Tulane University School of Medicine, graduated in the top 5% of his class, and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honorary Society. At graduation, he received both the Tulane Medical Alumni Association Award and the Creech Award for scholarship in surgery.

After attending Tulane on a military scholarship. Dr. Pollack completed a surgical internship at US Naval Hospital, San Diego, California. He then spent two years as a general medical officer with the Marine Corps and two years as an attending physician in the emergency department at Naval Hospital, San Diego, prior to serving his emergency medicine residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

In 1992, Dr. Pollack became attending physician and associate research director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix, an urban, tertiary care teaching hospital affiliated with the Medical College of the University of Arizona and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. In 1994, he became research director and associate residency director, and in 1997 he became department chairman at Maricopa. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine) at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Pollack has been active in teaching and clinical research and is a national leader in emergency medicine. He is chairman of the National Research Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and has chaired and served on multiple other committees and task forces for ACEP and for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is the only physician to have received ACEP's highest national awards in both teaching and research; he also received the national teaching award from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. He is a founding editor of Journal Watch--Emergency Medicine and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Emergency Medicine, emed.org, and emedicine.com. He is the international editor of the Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine. He has written more than 150 original research articles, chapters, and abstracts, and lectures internationally on many varied topics in emergency medicine. He serves on the steering committees of five national grants and has received NIH, CDC, AHCPR, and industry funding for his own research. He has recently become the Principal Investigator of three new multi-center clinical research trials based in emergency departments nationwide.

Dr. Pollack also served as medical director of the Medical Call Center for National Health Enhancement Systems (later HBOC/NHES) in Phoenix between 1997 and 1999, and during that time developed additional experience and expertise in demand and disease management. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Emergency Medicine Foundation in Dallas, Texas. He is married and lives in Phoenix with his wife and three children.

Safe Harbor Statement: This release may contain certain forward-looking statements including without limitation, projections, assumptions, expectations, product development objectives, commercial introduction, and potential advantages of the F.A.S.T.1 System. Actual events or results may differ from the Company's expectations as a result of risk factors discussed in Pyng Technologies Corp. reports on the file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, the Company's report on Form 20F for the year ended September 30, 1999.

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