Worcester Business Journal

wbjournal.com | September 30, 2019 | Worcester Business Journal 19 PFML It's your business. Are you PFML ready? Massachusetts' Paid Family and Medical Leave program is here. And if you employ anyone, you are now required to get your business or non-profit PFML ready. Find out everything you need to know, including contribution rates, important deadlines, and how to apply for an exemption. Withholding starts on October 1st. Visit mass.gov/pfml today. A message from the Massachusetts Department of Family and Medical Leave M OV E R S & S H A K E R S MELISSA WENDEROTH has been promoted by Pernet Family Health Service of Worcester to director of early intervention. Wenderoth is an early intervention developmental specialist with experience in elementary education. She has a bachelor's degree and master's of elementary education from Keene State College in New Hampshire. ROBERT D. COX JR., a managing partner at the Worcester law firm Bowditch & Dewey, has been named a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. Cox is one of 25 new fellows nationally to be elected for membership this year and the 23rd from Massachusetts. He chairs the Environmental Business Council of New England and the Mayor's Brownfields Task Force in Worcester. UMass Memorial Medical Group has added rheumatologist Dr. JONATHAN CHEAH, hospitalist Dr. MICHAEL DEVINE, WENDEROTH geriatric physician Dr. KOUTA ITO, and diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism specialist Dr. ALICIA WARNOCK. Cheah earned his medical degree from University College London. He completed an internal medicine residency program at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, a rheumatology fellowship program at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, and a clinical education fellowship program at the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust in England. Devine earned his medical degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency training at UMass Medical School. Ito earned his medical degree from Tokyo Medical and Dental University. He completed an internal medicine residency program at Beth Israel Medical Center, a geriatric medicine fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and a fellowship in health services research at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York. Warnock earned her medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Maryland. She completed an internal medicine residency program at the Naval Medical Center in Virginia, and an endocrinology fellowship at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine in Maryland. STEVEN ROCHELEAU of Westminster, the president of Rocheleau Tool & Tie Co. in Fitchburg, has been elected chair of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce board of directors for 2019-'20. Rocheleau has been the president of his family's third-generation business since 2001, and he became a member of the chamber's board of directors in 2015. He has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. SUSAN E. KELLEY has joined Bartholomew & Co. as a vice president in the Worcester wealth management firm's government and institutional division. Kelley has more than 28 years in government and financial experience, and was formerly a senior vice president in the government banking division at Adams Community Bank, and a vice president of government banking at UniBank. Kelley has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Berkshire Christian College in Oxford, and serves on the Lee Finance Committee. VERONICA VAN JURA is the new director of marketing at the DCU Center in Worcester, overseeing the arena and convention center's marketing, communications, public relations and community involvement. She was previously the facility's marketing coordinator. Van Jura is a New Jersey native and a graduate of Emmanuel College. Dr. MANJU MAHAJAN, a family medicine physician, has joined Nashoba Valley Medical Center and Nashoba Family Medicine- Steward Medical Group. Mahajan earned her medical degree from Ramaiah Medical College in India and completed her residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She joins Nashoba from a clinic in Iowa and is now seeing patients at Nashoba Family Medicine in Groton. COX CHEAH DEVINE ITO WARNOCK ROCHELEAU KELLEY VAN JURA W

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