Architecture Buddy Webb & Co. added staff members Travis Bond and Danny Loza. Bond and Loza will receive their master’s in architecture in May from Drury University.
Banking and Finance Pension Consultants Inc. was recognized in PlanAdviser magazine’s Top 100 Advisers of 2015. Nominated by clients, Pension Consultants was listed among the 50 firms in the teams category with assets under advisement between $2.25 billion and $4 billion.
Metropolitan National Bank promoted Whitley Lancaster, Jeff Shields, Doug Simkins and Tim Swan to vice president positions. Lancaster works as human resources manager, and Shields is a special assets officer. Simkins serves as credit department manager, and Swan is an appraisal review manager.
JMark Business Solutions Inc. was listed on The Channel Co.’s 2015 CRN Managed Service Provider 500. With clients in Springfield, Fayetteville, Ark., and Colorado Springs, Colo., JMark earned a spot among the 250 Progressive Service Providers that target small and midsize businesses.
Education Ozarks Technical Community College English instructor Jennifer Dunkel received the Gladys R. Shaw Outstanding Service to Developmental Education Students Award from the National Association for Developmental Education. A developmental studies educator and OTC’s lead English instructor of developmental writing since 2006, Dunkel also was selected for the McGraw Hill scholarship to attend the Kellogg Institute.
Willard Public Schools hired Garrett Prevo as principal of the Orchard Hills Elementary School for the 2015-16 school year. Prevo has seven years of experience as assistant principal at Republic High School.
College of the Ozarks received recognition as one of nine tuition-free colleges in The Princeton Review’s “Colleges That Pay You Back.” C of O was noted for its academics, career preparation and financial aid offerings.
Eight Southwest Baptist University physical therapy doctorate faculty members, as well as 20 students, instructors and alumni, attended a meeting of the American Physical Therapy Association.
An SBU group presented “The Impact of a Walking Program on the Quality of Life of Geriatric Patients with Dementia: A Systematic Review.”
Government Former Republican State Rep. Kevin Elmer, of Nixa, was elected to the Missouri Club For Growth Board of Directors. Elmer is the seventh member of the club’s board, a political action committee backed by St. Louis businessman Rex Sinquefield. Elmer, an attorney, served two terms in the House after his 2010 election.
Health Dr. Troy Morrison, an orthopedic surgeon with CMH Parkview Orthopaedic Clinic in Bolivar, earned board certification by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery. Morrison joined Citizens Memorial Healthcare in August 2012.
Dr. Garrett Alderfer, a CMH hospitalist, earned board certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Alderfer joined the CMH medical staff in August.
Cox Medical Center Branson added Dr. Foram Shah to its hospitalist team. Shah completed her residency in family medicine at Northeast Iowa Medical Education Foundation in 2012. She’s worked three years as a family physician at Caverna Memorial Hospital’s Munfordville Rural Health Clinic in Kentucky.
Dr. Brett Hronek joined Cox Medical Center Branson. Specializing in allergy and immunology, Hronek has been seeing patients in Springfield since the fall and now splits his time between the two cities. His medical education is from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.
Physician assistant Deborah Kluthe joined Ozarks Community Hospital’s Evergreen Clinic. With 20 years of experience and a specialty in pain management, Kluthe previously worked as a physician assistant for the Missouri Rehabilitation Center in Mount Vernon.
As a member of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Partnership for Patients-Hospital Engagement Network, CMH reached its goal of increased patient safety and reduced preventable readmissions between 2012 and 2014.
Nonprofit The James River Basin Partnership received $2,300 from St. James Winery to support the nonprofit’s river clean-up efforts. JRBP received a portion of proceeds from wine sales in September and October.[[In-content Ad]]
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