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{ Newsworthy } People, providers and practices [ MOVERS & SHAKERS ] Athena Dellas Szczesniak has been promoted to chief financial officer of Plainville-based Wheeler Clinic, which provides primary care and behavioral health services. As CFO, Dellas Szczesniak oversees all of Wheeler's finance, accounting, revenue cycle, practice management and purchasing functions. She joined Wheeler in 2005 from the American Red Cross in Farmington. Formerly she was vice president of finance. Barbara Vernon has joined Farmington-based ConnectiCare as vice president of middle market and large group sales and account management. Vernon brings 25-plus years of health- plan strategy experience to her new position and has spent her career working in the tri-state area, most recently in a senior leadership position with HealthyCT. Philip Vogel is retiring as CBIA Service Corp. president June 30 and will be replaced by Ken Comeau, the organization's current senior vice president. The service corporation is the division that manages CBIA's private healthcare exchange for small businesses, CBIA Health Connections. Vogel, who joined the service corporation in 1987 as senior vice president, spearheaded development of Health Connections in 1995. Comeau, who joined CBIA Service Corp. in 1990 as director of product development, was later named vice president of sales, products and services. Comeau will be responsible for all products and services offered through the CBIA Service Corp., including Health Connections. Dr. Anna Radwan has joined the medical staff of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center as a specialist in hospital medicine. Radwan completed her internship training in general surgery at the UConn School of Medicine and received her residency training in family medicine at UConn Health and St. Francis. Dr. Gary Linker, a general dentist in New Britain, has been appointed the new president of the Connecticut State Dental Association (CSDA). Linker will serve a one-year term leading the trade association and serving as the main spokesperson for oral health in the state. Also, elected to the CSDA board of governors were: Dr. David Fried of Yalesville, president-elect; Dr. Al Natelli of Southington, vice president; Dr. Bethaney Brenner of Burlington, treasurer; Dr. Annemarie Delessio- Matta, Southbury; Dr. Edward Finnigan Jr., Fairfield; Dr. Steve Hall, Farmington; Dr. Robert Hughes, Stamford; Dr. Tam Le, Hamden; Dr. Laurence Levy, Middletown; Dr. Nancy Treiber, New Britain; and Dr. Michael Ungerleider, Granby. Julia P. Boisvert has been hired as an associate of Murtha Cullina LLP in its healthcare practice group in Hartford. Boisvert assists hospitals, physicians, physician practice groups, social-service providers and other healthcare providers with a variety of regulatory and business issues. Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, a nonprofit specialty hospital in Wallingford recently added three new employees to its development department: Timothy Buzzee, director of annual giving; Douglas Nelson, major/planned giving officer; and Krystle Smith, development systems associate. Buzzee will be responsible for the strategic execution and management of Gaylord's annual giving program. He is the former manager of development at Side by Side School. Nelson will be responsible for all major and deferred gifts. He is the former vice president and director of development at Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation in Bloomfield. Smith is responsible for all donor information and the development department's database. She most recently was development operations manager at Stepping Stones Museum for Children in Norwalk. The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) announced the election of four new officers, including Dr. Douglas Montgomery as treasurer. The new ABFM officers will each serve a one- year term. Douglas is chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the UConn School of Medicine and St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. He previously served as chairman of the Department of Family and Community Medicine and associate dean for diversity and inclusion at New York Medical College. Paul Bartosic has joined Harvard Pilgrim Health Care as director of sales for Connecticut in its Hartford office. Bartosic has more than 20 years experience in the healthcare industry, most recently for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut as sales director for account management, service and new sales. Dr. Nicholas Bennett has been promoted to division head of infectious disease and immunology at Connecticut Children's Medical Center. Bennett joined Connecticut Children's in Sept. 2011, developed and now directs the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) and most recently earned national attention for the hospital after diagnosing the first human case of tick- borne Powassan disease in Connecticut. Dr. Jeffrey R. Brown has joined the medical staff of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center as a board- certified, fellowship-trained specialist in sports medicine. Brown's clinical interests include shoulder and knee injuries, overuse conditions and sports concussions. Chiropractor Olivia Zebro has joined Tagliarini Chiropractic in West Hartford. Zebro will be responsible for overall patient care, while specializing in the areas of prenatal and pediatrics. Zebro comes to Tagliarini Chiropractic from a private practice in Minneapolis, where she also received postgraduate training in chiropractic pediatric and prenatal care. CaroGen Corp., a Farmington-based developer of immunotherapies for hepatitis b virus (HBV) as well as other infectious diseases and cancer, announced the addition of board member Jo Viney and three key senior executive level scientists — Stephen Mason, Doug Powell and Dr. Timur Yarovinsky — to its immunotherapy discovery and development team. Viney, who holds a doctorate in immunology, is an entrepreneurial scientist and biotech executive with experience in autoimmune and inflammatory disease. Previously, she worked at Biogen in Cambridge, Mass., where she was senior vice president, drug discovery and a member of the senior research and development leadership team. Mason, who holds a doctorate in medical genetics, joined CaroGen as executive director, virology and leader of the HBV immunotherapy program. Since 2015, he has been a consultant in various capacities for small biotechs and potential startup companies and for almost six years was director of discovery virology at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Powell, who holds a doctorate in genetics, is director of R&D and corporate development. He has more than 20 years of experience in vaccine research and biological development at Pfizer, Antigen Express and Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Yarovinsky, who had been CaroGen's immunology group leader and has been promoted to director of immunology, has more than 16 years of research experience in immunology. H Barbara Vernon Athena Dellas Szczesniak Dr. Anna Radwan Julia P. Boisvert Dr. Douglas Montgomery Olivia Zebro 20 GREATER HARTFORD HEALTH • Summer 2017