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Patricia L. Priest, RHIT, CPC, joined Baird Kurtz & Dobson as a supervising consultant. She provides medical reimbursement consulting services for phys-ician clinics and hospitals. Priest is a registered health information technologist and a certified professional coder. Her focus is medical coding, reimbursement consulting, medical records documentation reviews, quality assurance fee schedule reviews and compliance issues. She holds an associate's degree in health information technology from Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, Va.|ret||ret||tab|

David K. Yancey joined Kirk-patrick, Phillips & Miller, CPAs, PC as firm administrator. Yancey has 29 years of experience in office supervision, fi-nancial management and personnel ad-ministration in the law and medical professions. He holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from the University of Arkansas and executive master's of business administration from Southwest Missouri State University.|ret||ret||tab|

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Michael Eaton was named creative director for Medical Consult-ing Group. He worked previously as a private consultant for Big Cedar Lodge and Bass Pro Shops and with the marketing teams of Aventis Pharmaceu-ticals and Teva Neuroscience.|ret||ret||tab|

Bruce Koerber joined Medical Consulting Group as the director of finance. He worked for four years as a senior accountant for Whitlock Selim & Keehn LLP. He earned an accounting de-gree from SMSU in 1997.|ret||ret||tab|

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Hassan Alissa, MD, joined Skaggs Community Health Center in Branson specializing in internal medicine and rheumatology. Alissa comes to Branson after numerous years of study, training and research. |ret||ret||tab|

He holds a medical degree from Da-mascus University School of Medicine in Damascus, Syria, and served as a re-search assistant at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Alissa completed a three-year internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals, Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, and received his rheumatology training and participated in research at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago and Hines Hospital, Department of Veterans Affairs in Maywood, Ill. Alissa is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.|ret||ret||tab|

Christoffer J. Weber, MD, recently relocated his practice of physical medicine and rehabilitation to Branson, and has been accepted to the medical staff of Skaggs Community Health Center. Weber previously practiced with Cox Health Systems in Springfield for two years. |ret||ret||tab|

He holds a medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine at Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and his residency training includes physical medicine and rehabilitation at Siskin Hospital for Rehabilitation-Erlanger Medical Center, through the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. |ret||ret||tab|

Weber is certified by the American Board of Phys-ical Medicine and Rehabilitation.|ret||ret||tab|

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Whitaker Publishing announced one staff addition and two promotions at 417 Magazine.|ret||ret||tab|

Jesse Adams has been promoted to production manager and is responsible for advertising design and production of the magazine. |ret||ret||tab|

Adams, a student at Drury University, graduates in May 2002 with a bachelor of arts degree in design arts.|ret||ret||tab|

Tiffani Barton joined 417 Magazine as art director. |ret||ret||tab|

Barton, a graduate of the University of Mis-souri-Columbia School of Journalism, is responsible for all layout and graphic design for the magazine. |ret||ret||tab|

Dylan Whitaker has been promoted to circulation manager. Whitaker is responsible for managing internal subscription services as well as all aspects of the magazine's newsstand sales.|ret||ret||tab|

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Emily Hendley has been appointed as graphic artist/sales and merchandising assistant for Decorize Inc. |ret||ret||tab|

She is a 2001 graduate of Drury University with a degree in design art with an emphasis in visual communications. [[In-content Ad]]