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GEI Consultants Inc., a geotechnical, environmental, water resources, and ecological science and engineering firm, announced that David B. Terry, P.G., LEP, a vice president with the firm in the Glastonbury office, has been promoted to the position of senior consultant. He has been an environmental consultant since 1990 and was elected to GEI’s Board of Directors in 2008. Since 1999, he has acted as a client service manager and team leader for one of GEI’s electric and gas utility service teams. Terry is a registered professional geologist in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a licensed environmental professional in the state of Connecticut.
Marc Levesque has been appointed the senior resource case manager of Connecticut Center for Healthy Aging, located at The Hospital of Central Connecticut at Bradley Memorial. Levesque will work with seniors and families who can benefit from the center’s resources and assessments. He has a case management and cardiac rehabilitation background, previously working at The Hospital of Central Connecticut. He has also had extensive experience working with people interested in improving their health, dealing with chronic diseases and maintaining optimal wellness.Â
The Travelers Companies Inc. has named Peter M. Bakker of the Peter M. Bakker Agency, Inc. in Avon as a recipient of its Insurance Agent of the Year Award. The award was presented by Travelers at the company’s annual personal insurance leadership conference for top independent agents and brokers in Puerto Rico.
Hospital for Special Care president and CEO David J. Crandall, FACHE, has been elected to the board of directors of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce.
Keiler & Co., an advertising and marketing communications firm, recently promoted one member of its account management group, and welcomed the return of another. Maggie McDonald, who joined Keiler in 2005 as assistant account manager, is now account manager, supervising strategic planning on behalf of various clients. Having originally joined Keiler in 2001 as a senior account manager, Lora Carr has resumed her former duties as account supervisor.
David Hull, MD, clinical director of transplantation at Hartford Hospital, has been awarded the James P. Colangelo, MD Achievement Award from the National Kidney Foundation of Connecticut. This distinction is the highest honor given by the foundation to those who have positively affected the lives of patients with kidney disease. As the director of transplantation at Hartford Hospital, Dr. Hull performs transplants for patients in need of a new kidney or liver. Throughout his tenure, he has performed more than 1,000 transplantation surgeries among live donors and recipients. He performed the first minimally-invasive donor nephrectomy (removal of the kidney) in 1997.
Kostin, Ruffkess & Company LLC, a Farmington-based certified public accounting and business advisory, announces three promotions in its Farmington office: Donna Gilbert, principal; Belinda Melaragno, supervisor; Adam Malinowksi, senior; and Jonathan Ramsay, senior.
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