Gov. Ned Lamont has named Renée D. Coleman-Mitchell, executive director of Cougar Health Services at Washington State University, commissioner-designate of the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH), the state’s public health office.
Coleman-Mitchell’s nomination requires approval from the General Assembly before she assumes office on April 1. She will succeed former DPH Commissioner Raul Pino.
At Washington State, Coleman-Mitchell led the school’s health services unit through a rebranding and implemented an integrated delivery model for health and wellness services at the university, according to Lamont’s office.
She previously worked at DPH in a variety of roles beginning in 1986, starting in the agency’s HIV/AIDs division. In 1994, Coleman-Mitchell left DPH to become director of Community Health Center Inc. in Meriden. She became deputy director of health for the city of Hartford a year later, and returned to DPH in 2002 to work as section chief of the agency’s Community, Family & Health Equity Section until 2016.
Coleman-Mitchell earned a bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College and a master’s in public health from the Yale School of Medicine.
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Bill Haydon, senior financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network LLC in Madison, has been recognized as a 2019 Best in State Wealth Advisor by Forbes.
Haydon has 12 years of experience in the financial services industry. He holds a BA from Skidmore College and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.
The Forbes Best in State Wealth Advisors ranking algorithm is based on industry experience, interviews, compliance records, assets under management, revenue and other criteria by SHOOK Research, LLC, which does not receive compensation from the advisors or their firms in exchange for placement on a ranking. Investment performance is not a criterion.
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Gaylord Specialty Healthcare in Wallingford has appointed five new members to its Board of Directors:
• Bo Bradstreet of Madison is principal of Bohan & Bradstreet, a boutique national talent acquisition partner in Guilford.
• Cynthia J. (CJ) Griffith of Madison is a partner with Sullivan, Griffith & Beatty LLP, a Guilford law firm specializing in estate planning, elder law, estate and trust administration, business planning, residential and commercial real estate.
• Clement Lewin of Orange is associate vice president of research and development strategy at global biopharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur in Cambridge, Mass.
• Mary Pepe of Branford is director of human resources for the town of Greenwich.
• William J. Simione III of Cheshire is managing principal of Simione Healthcare Consultants, a home health-care and hospice consulting agency headquartered in Hamden.
Gaylord Specialty Healthcare is a rehabilitation-focused, nonprofit health system that provides inpatient and outpatient care for people at every point in their journey from illness and injury to maximum recovery.
