Aware Recovery Care, a Wallingford-based addiction-treatment business, has named Dr. Andrea Auxier as its new president.
Auxier previously served as its chief growth officer. Prior to joining Aware Recovery Care, she was the chief commercial officer for New Directions Behavioral Health and served as the national director of integration at Beacon Health Options.
As president of Aware Recovery Care, Auxier will lead the execution of the company’s vision, strategies and goals.
Steve Randazzo, CEO of Aware Recovery Care, noted Auxier’s experience in the field and compassion.
“It’s the perfect time to further position ourselves as a company to help anyone in need discover that hope and help for addiction is available, and that recovery is possible,” Randazzo said.
Aware Recovery Care provides team-based in-home addiction treatment in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia, Florida and Indiana.
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Hyperfine appoints senior medical director
Dr. Chip Truwit
Hyperfine Inc., the Guilford-based company behind Swoop, the first FDA-cleared portable magnetic resonance imaging system, recently appointed Dr. Chip Truwit as senior medical director.
Truwit’s background includes three decades of experience in public sector healthcare and neuroradiology education.
Dr. Khan Siddiqui, Hyperfine’s chief medical officer and chief strategy officer, said of Truwit, “His remarkable experience in neuroradiology and his work with underserved communities will make considerable contributions to the Hyperfine mission of increasing access to critical, life-saving MR imaging throughout the world.”
Truwit previously served as chief medical officer of diagnostic imaging and medical officer of precision diagnosis at Philips Healthcare.
Truwit’s career also includes 27 years as a professor of neuroradiology at the University of Minnesota, as well as 19 years as radiology chair and three years as chief innovation officer at Hennepin County Medical Center. Truwit co-founded Image-Guided Neurologics, which was acquired by Medtronic in 2005, and he holds 31 patents for medical devices.
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Summit Handling hires new leader of warehouse solutions team
Summit Handling Systems Inc of North Haven has welcomed Joseph Ginnetti as warehouse solutions manager.
Ginnetti joined Summit, a forklift dealer, with more than four decades of experience. He has held various positions in the material-handling industry where he directed sales and business development efforts for a Hyster dealer and The Raymond Corporation.
“Every item in our homes, places of work and beyond came from a place where some type of material-handling equipment was used in the process of getting it to you,” Ginnetti said. “It is our goal to be involved in the process by offering a solution to meet the customer’s needs.”
The family-owned business distributes Toyota forklifts and provides material handling services in Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, the Hudson Valley, greater New York City and Long Island.
Summit also represents Doosan, Combilift, Taylor, Mariotti, Hangcha, Bendi, Drexel, Bobcat, Ridg-U-Rak and Slate River Systems.
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Barclay Damon announces leadership changes
The law firm Barclay Damon made several leadership changes to its committees, practice groups and practice areas with the new year.
The new assignments include:
- David Burch: management committee member and Syracuse office managing director
- Corey Auerbach: hiring partner – laterals
- Meghan Dwyer and Sharon Brown: co-summer associate partners
- Jen Leonardi: pro bono partner
- Bob Heary: diversity partner – Buffalo
- Brian Whiteley: commercial litigation practice group leader
- Naresh Kannan: patents and prosecution practice area co-chair
- Margaret Surowka: health care and health & human services providers practice area co-chair
Connie Cahill, the firm’s managing partner, said the new leaders have shown that they are capable of taking on additional responsibility to guide firm operations, attract diverse talent and achieve successful outcomes for clients.
“These appointments contribute to Barclay Damon’s commitment to infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion principles at every level,” Cahill said.
The firm, which has nearly 300 attorneys, has offices in Toronto and around the northeastern U.S., including one in New Haven.
