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Jose Maria Arias-Camison has been named director of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and interim chairman of the department of pediatrics at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. Dr. Arias-Camison received his medical degree from the Medical School of the University of Salamanca, Spain. He served as a resident in pediatrics at the Clinic Hospital of Salamanca and at Boston City Hospital, and as a fellow in neonatal/perinatal medicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston. He is a past president of the New England Association of Neonatologists. Dr. Arias-Camison joined St. Francis as a staff neonatologist in 1999. He holds an appointment as an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
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Duncaster Retirement Community in Bloomfield has appointed Jo Champlin Casey as its first director of the Duncaster Foundation, working on fundraising and community relations. She has maintained her own practice as a fundraising consultant, focusing on capital campaigns and major gift programs. She spent 16 years at Hartford Hospital as its chief fundraising officer. She also has been a development officer at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and director of development at St. Joseph College in West Hartford where she headed the alumnae relations, public relations and development division of the college.
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Cheri Paulsen has been appointed sales manager of the Woodbridge office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Connecticut and Westchester County, N.Y. She will be responsible for 36 sales professionals serving Woodbridge, Bethany, New Haven, Seymour, Shelton and the surrounding communities in Greater New Haven. Paulsen was a top-producing sales associate in Cheshire for the past 10 years. She joined the Cheshire office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage last year. She has served on the Cheshire Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Before starting her career in real estate, Paulsen worked for several Fortune 500 companies in sales and marketing roles.
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St. Joseph College has named four new members to its Board of Trustees: Patricia (Paddi) LeShane, CEO and co-founder of Sullivan & LeShane and Sullivan & LeShane Public Relations in Hartford; Nancy Matthews, chancellor of the Diocese of Bridgeport; Lewis (Lew) Robinson Jr., who retired as general counsel of Travelers Property Casualty, Personal Lines in Hartford; and Christine Whitehead, attorney and novelist from Andover.
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Steve Mezei has joined Symetra Life Insurance Co. of Bellevue, Wash., as the group life and disability income sales leader for the Northeastern region. He spent more than five years at The Hartford, most recently as regional sales manager for the company’s group life and disability income business serving New York City and the surrounding area. Prior to The Hartford, Mezei held a variety of sales, underwriting and claims roles at Aetna. He is based in Fairfield, responsible for Symetra’s group life and disability income sales in 14 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states. Also, Andrew McMillan, a former senior sales executive at Aetna Life Insurance, has joined the firm and will head up sales for Symetra’s group life and disability income business in the Eastern region. He will be based in Atlanta.
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Jessica Sullivan has rejoined the Wethersfield office of Kelly Financial Group, a wealth preservation, retirement, and estate planning firm. She will be an assistant client relationship manager servicing the firm’s Wethersfield, Old Lyme and Woodbridge offices. She has 14 years experience in client services and previously served as client services coordinator for Kelly Financial Group in the Wethersfield office. She had been at QuEST Global Services.
