Hartford Business Journal

20 Hartford Business Journal • October 31, 2016 www.HartfordBusiness.com Pediatric oncologist, cancer researcher joins CT Children's, UConn, JAX Connecticut Children's Medical Center, The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) for Genomic Medicine, and the UConn School of Medicine have made their first joint appointment: pediatric oncologist and cancer researcher Dr. Ching C. Lau. Lau will serve as the medical director of hema- tology-oncology at Connecticut Children's; as pro- fessor at JAX, where he will specialize in pediatric brain and bone tumor research; and as head of the Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at the UConn School of Medicine. Lau comes to Connecticut from Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, where he was head of the Cancer Genomics Program and Molecular Neuro- Oncology Laboratory, and was also co-director of the pediatrics program at the Dan L. Duncan Can- cer Center at Baylor College of Medicine. UConn Health adds five physicians Five physicians recently joined UConn Health with specialized training in ear, nose and throat surgery; hand, wrist and elbow surgery; orthopedic oncology; and bone marrow transplantation. They are Drs. Daniel Roberts, Joel Ferreira, Anthony Parrino, Adam Lindsay and Jonathan Harrison. Roberts is an ear, nose and throat specialist and neurotologist who joins UConn from the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. Ferreira is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in the hand, wrist and elbow. Ferreira returns to UConn Health to practice with Dr. Craig Rodner, under whom he trained while a UConn orthopedic surgery resident, and with Parrino, who also had trained under Rodner. Parrino is another hand, wrist and elbow sur- geon who completed his orthopedic surgery residency at UConn. Lindsay is an orthopedic oncologist who specializes in treating benign and malignant tumors of bone and soft tissue in adults and children. Harrison is hematologist and medical oncologist who arrives from the University of Missouri to restart the UConn Health Bone Marrow Transplant Division. UConn names chair of Dept. of Medicine Dr. Cheryl Oncken, who has been interim chair of the Department of Medicine in the UConn School of Medicine since July 2015, now holds that position as chair and is no longer interim. Oncken is a tenured professor with responsibili- ties in patient care, education, and clinical research. She is a professor of medicine and obstetrics and gynecology, and is an internationally recognized to- bacco researcher. She's been at UConn Health for 22 years, the last 17 of which she has had continu- ous NIH funding for her research. Specialist in podiatric medicine joins St. Francis Dr. Danielle N. Butto, a doctor of podiatric medi- cine, has joined the medical staff of St. Francis Hos- pital and Medical Center as a specialist in foot and ankle surgery and podiatric medicine with St. Francis Medical Group. After completing an American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons fellowship in reconstructive rear foot and ankle surgery at Ankle and Foot Care Centers at Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine in Youngstown, Ohio, Butto is returning to St. Francis, where she completed a three-year residency. UHart names new director for Entrepreneurial, Women's Business centers The University of Hartford's Entrepreneurial Center and Women's Business Center has ap- pointed Fred Wergeles as its new director. An expert in strategic planning and competitive intel- ligence analysis, he brings a history of supporting the growth of business in Connecticut. Wergeles has more than 25 years of experience managing intelligence collection and analysis in support of strategic decision-making for the federal government and Pratt & Whitney. In 2001, he opened his own practice, Fred Wergeles & Associates LLC, which specializes in strategic planning and competi- tive intelligence process improvement. Currently an adjunct professor at the University of Hartford's Barney School of Business, Wergeles teaches market and competitive intelligence and marketing management in the MBA program. The Collins Cos. hires project manager The Collins Cos., an industrial distributor of pipe, valves and fittings and engineered spe- cialties serving the Northeast, has hired Russell Sweeny as project controls manager. Sweeny comes to Collins with more than 20 years of project management and engineering ex- perience, including project management work as a proposal manager for Pratt & Whitney. Headquartered in East Windsor, The Collins Cos. is comprised of Collins Pipe & Supply Co., Collins Controls, Niagara Controls, Collins Niagara, and Power House Supply Co., with nine locations in New England, upstate New York and Aston, Pa. CDM Smith employee named board member of national construction group The Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) announced that Brian McCarthy, who works in the Hartford office of engineering and construction firm CDM Smith, will serve as a national board member for the association. McCarthy is an associate and a member of CDM Smith's program and construction manage- ment leadership team. MOVERS & SHAKERS Dr. Ching C. Lau Dr. Adam Lindsay Dr. Joel Ferreira Dr. Cheryl Oncken Dr. Daniel Roberts Dr. Jonathan Harrison Dr. Anthony Parrino Dr. Danielle N. Butto

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