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24 HE ALTH • Summer 2019 before beginning her own practice in 2011. SERENA M. SHIELDS of Worcester has joined the Westborough home health agency Around the Clock has office manager. She has numerous years of experience in health care. Pleasantries Adult Day Services, a decade-old social program in Marlborough, has a new owner, JOSH OBEITER, and a new program director, REGINA WOLF FRITZ. Obeiter previously ran Seniors Helping Seniors of Greater Boston and Metrow- est, where he is the owner and executive director. He and Fritz have expanded the program to include music and art therapy, nature therapy, cooking, interactive games, outings and other features. JASON GUERTIN of Spencer has joined the faculty of Bay Path Regional Vocational Techni- cal High School's Practical Nurs- ing Academy in Charlton. Guertin is a registered nurse at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester and has taught at the Tantasqua Regional KATRIN SAN- FORD of Auburn is the new privacy officer at Fallon Health in Worces- ter, responsible for the firm's privacy program including the development, implementation, and maintenance of policies and proce- dures, monitoring program compliance, investigation and tracking of incidents and breaches and insuring members' rights. She was previously the director of compli- ance and privacy officer at Community Healthlink in Worcester. Sanford has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Pur- due University in West Lafayette, Ind. and a master's degree in family therapy from UMass Boston. She is an adjunct profes- sor at Anna Maria College in Paxton. JENNY WEYLER of Aponi Aesthetics in Worcester has been appointed to the board of trustees of the Reli- ant Foundation in Worccester. Weyler, of Shrewsbury, has a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University in Providence and a medical degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She has worked at Memorial Medical Group and Great Brook Valley Health Center/Edward M. Kennedy Health Center in Worcester efits in Worcester. In this role, she is re- sponsible for grow- ing the business by providing new products and solu- tions for clients that support lowering costs and improving the well-being of members. She has 25 years of industry ex- perience and previously worked at Pequot Health Care in Groton as a senior account executive. She has a bachelor's degree from Central Connecticut State University. HEATHER SIENEL has joined The Wound Care Center at Charlton as a physician assistant. She has more than nine years of experience in clinical settings and most recently worked for Novikov Wellness and Skin Care in Northborough, where she managed patient care. Sienel received her master's degree in physician assistant studies from Western University of Health Science in California. At The Wound Care Center in Charlton, Sienel provides wound care, and diagnoses and treats various skin conditions. Dr. GEORGE M. ABRAHAM of Shrewsbury, the chief of medicine at Saint Vincent Hos- pital in Worcester, has been named to the board of regents of the American Col- lege of Physicians, a national organization of internal medicine physicians. Abraham is a professor of medicine at UMass Medical School and an adjunct professor of medicine at MCPHS University, both in Worcester. Dr. KATHERINE BARNARD of the Family Health Center of Worcester has been appointed to the Reliant Foun- dation's board of trustees. Barnard, a UMass Medical School graduate, has nearly two decades of experience in family medicine in Worcester, includ- ing work outside clinical services with interagency collaboration and educational programs. KATHY KUKOWSKI has been named the vice president of sales and account man- agement at Fallon Health affiliate UltraBen- M o v e r s & S h a k e r s ABRAHAM BARNARD KUKOWSKI SIENEL SANFORD WEYLER OBEITER PHYSICIANS Andrea Chiaramonte, MD, MPH Melinda Thacker, MD Johnathon Sillman, MD, FACS James Hughes, MD Cynthia Duhamel, PA-C Robert Moran, PA-C AUDIOLOGISTS Marla Allard, M.A., CCC-A Jane Ehnstrom, M.S., CCC-A Michelle Fleck, M.A., CCC-A Merrisa Murtha, AU.D., CCC-A • Adult and Pediatric patients welcome • Audiology and balance testing and medical treatment • Thyroid and parathyroid surgical evaluation and intervention • Sinus and nasal disease evaluated and treated • In Office surgery available if appropriate • All manner of Head and Neck masses and lesions evaluated and treated • Voice evaluation and treatment Professional Otolaryngology Specialty Care in a Kind and Compassionate Manner 100 Martin Luther King Junior Blvd. Worcester, MA 01608 Phone: 508-757-0330 • Fax: 508-752-9850 aohns.com Like us on GUERTIN

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