Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the appointment of Dr. Philip Sager, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS, to its Board of Directors. Dr. Sager is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, a Fellow of the American Heart Association and a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society. Dr. Sager has served as a Consulting Professor of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine since 2013, a Full Voting Member of the United States Food and Drug Administration Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee since 2011, a private pharmaceutical, device and diagnostics consultant since 2010 and Member of the Scientific Programs Committee, the Scientific Oversight Committee, and the Executive Committee of the Cardiac Safety Research Consortium since 2006, serving as Chair of the Scientific Programs Committee and Scientific Oversight Committee at various times.

Effective at the company's annual general meeting held on June 10, 2014 Dr. Bogdan Dziurzynski has retired from the company's board of directors. Dr. Dziurzynski joined the company's Board of Directors in 2012.