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HE A LTH • Summer 2021 21 While the health care industry in our region is huge, there has never before been a single resource that delivers both industry news and analysis along with a consumer forum where industry experts can share their best advice and insights. Our regional HEALTH publication and E-newsletter is aimed not only at health care professionals, but at health-care consumers, both retail and business. If you're a player in the health care field looking to promote your service, or if your business is trying to reach medical professionals and practices with products or services - we can help you deliver your message to this highly targeted audience. REMAINING 2021 ISSUE DATES: DON'T MISS OUT! AUGUST 23 Closing Date: August 11 Pandemic preparedness/ Health information: Facts & Myths NOVEMBER 1 Closing Date: October 20 Health Care Resource Guide The Region's Quarterly Health Care Magazine HEALTH C E N T R A L M A S S A C H U S E T T S A shot of healthy marketing! For information contact Mark Murray, Associate Publisher at 508.755.8004 x227 or mmurray@wbjournal.com You'll want to see and be seen in this quarterly publication! discharge planner. He obtained his associates degree in nursing at New Hampshire Vocational Technical College and bachelor's degree in English literature from Keene State College in New Hampshire. Before joining AdCare, he worked for Stone Environmental Schools in East Madison, N.H. as a healthcare coordinator and held nursing positions at Brattleboro Retreat in Vermont and Concord Hospital in New Hampshire. Banjo Health of Northborough has named SHIVA KUMAR as its newest member of the board of advisors. Kumar previously served as chief strategy officer and head of business development for Watson Health at IBM from 2015-2020, worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., and was an associate professor at Yale University's Physics Department. As senior executive at IBM since 2003, he has pioneered analytic use to improve its revenue and profit performance, and co-founded and led teams at IBM Research to develop the capabilities of IBM Watson Health. UMass Memorial Health Care has added three new doctors to its staff: vascular surgeon Dr. DOUGLAS JONES, hospitalist Dr. SHASHIDHAR MADIREDDY and hospitalist Dr. ADRIANA NEGRINI. Jones earned his medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, completed his residency at Cornell University in New York, and a surgery fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Harvard Medical School in Boston. He specializes in vascular surgery at the UMass Memorial Medical Center's University Campus in Worcester, UMass Memorial Milford, and Harrington Healthcare in Charlton. Madireddy earned his medical degree from Osmania University in India, and completed his residency at East Tennessee State University – James H. Quillen College. He specializes in hospital medicine at UMass Memorial Medical Center's Memorial Campus and Marlborough Hospital. Negrini earned her medical degree from UMass Medical School in Worcester and completed her internal medicine residency there. She specializes in hospital medicine at UMass Memorial Medical Center's University and Memorial campuses. ERIC ROLDAN has been appointed as the director of outpatient services at Worcester nonprofit Open Sky Community Services. Roldan graduated from Springfield College in 2012 with a master's degree in social work. He is fluent in Spanish and English. He most recently served as a clinical program director for Spectrum Health Service in Worcester. Roldan will oversee The Bridge Counseling Center. JULIA MULLIN will join the telehealth division of Elevate Counseling Services in Franklin. Mullin earned her master's degree in social work and bachelor's degree in psychology and early childhood education from Simmons University in Boston. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers. Community Healthlink, a UMass Memorial Health Care behavioral and substance abuse agency in Worcester, hired SHELLY YARNIE as vice president of its access division. Shelly spent eight years at the Mass. Department of Public Health, most recently as director of local public health initiatives where she provided statewide leadership and direction to boards of health applying for accreditation, developing opioid initiatives, and improving health equity. Her other roles included regional manager in Central Massachusetts, where she oversaw leadership and advocacy to community organizations focused on improving social determinants of health. Yarnie is a native to Worcester and graduated from UMass Amherst's School of Public Health and Health Sciences. CAROL BARTON, an attorney at Estate Preservation Law Offices in Worcester since 2013, has been named National Professional Advisor of the Year for 2020 by the American Cancer Society. Barton was one of two partners of the society's planned giving team who are honored each year. Her association with the group began in 2008 as a volunteer at Hope Lodge in Worcester, and later grew into national roles, most recently as chair of the nationwide gift planning advisor council. Worcester's AdCare Hospital promoted registered nurse MICHAEL BLODGETT to director of care coordination. Blodgett has worked at AdCare since 2008 working in the nursing department, and later in case management as manager and high-risk M o v e r s & S h a k e r s ROLDAN H YARNIE BARTON BLODGETT JONES NEGRINI MADIREDDY

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