Ewing-based Antares Pharma Inc. announced today the appointment of Dr. Bruce Freundlich as senior vice president for medical.

According to the announcement, Dr. Freundlich completed his rheumatology training at the University of Pennsylvania where he was subsequently a member of faculty. He is currently an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a volunteer staff member of the Philadelphia Veterans Administration. Previously, Dr. Freundlich worked at Merck where he was a medical director of the mid-atlantic region and then on to Wyeth/Pfizer where he became a vice president of immunology and musculo-skeletal diseases. Most recently he was chief of clinical rheumatology at Penn.