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Matt Morrell of Hartford has joined American Eagle Federal Credit Union as a mortgage consultant. Morrell brings 12 years of mortgage origination experience to the credit union. Most recently he worked for United Mortgage Finance Group in North Haven. Prior to that, he was a branch manager for People’s United Bank.
University of Connecticut Health Center urologist and researcher John A. Taylor III, M.D., has been awarded a grant from the American Cancer Society to fund his ongoing research on bladder cancer. Taylor, who also is an assistant professor of surgery at the UConn School of Medicine, is one of the region’s few bladder cancer specialists and has continuously received grant support from prestigious sources. The award, officially known as “The American Cancer Society New England Division Mentored Research Scholar Grant in Applied and Clinical Research — Beatrice Cueno,” is for five years in the amount of $729,000.
The Connecticut Society of Association Executives awarded Robert J. Rader, the executive director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education with their Connecticut Executive of the Year Award. Rader was nominated by fellow association executives and received the distinction at the CSAE annual conference on Nov. 3.
Eastern Connecticut Health Network held its annual board meeting on November 3. The following businesspeople were elected corporators: E. Paul Amata, financial representative, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network; Rep. Ryan P. Barry (D-Manchester), private practice attorney, Manchester; Jeffrey Beauregard, president, Beauregard Corporation, Vernon; Ronald E. Burt, M.D., of Milford Anesthesia Associates, and chair, Department of Anesthesiology, ECHN; Sheila Bugnacki, office manager, MTS Builders, Manchester; Joel D. Davidson, D.M.D., private practice dentist, Tolland; Deborah A. Downes, M.D., private practice ophthalmologist, Manchester, and member of the ECHN medical staff; Linda Estabrook, executive director, Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective; Liana Fresher, executive director, Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation, Avon; Pamela J. Guenard, accountant and vice president, Don Brooks & Associates, South Windsor; Moraina Gutierrez, general manager, Telemundo, Channel 50, Hartford; Kennedy Hudner, partner, Murtha Cullina LLP, Hartford; Eric Kloter, owner, Swiss Cleaners, Vernon; Michael J. Kopsick, partner, Kahan, Kerensky & Capossela, Vernon; Raymond C. Kurker, M.D., private practice family physician, South Windsor, and member, ECHN medical staff; Michael W. Martin, M.D., private practice a physician with Anis & Martin Internal Medicine Associates, South Windsor, and member, ECHN medical staff; Cynthia L. Merrill, certified public accountant and managing partner, Walsh, Merrill & Brousseau, Manchester; Philip W. Moreschi, vice president, Fuss & O’Neill, Manchester; Saqib Naseer, M.D., private practice physician, New England Cardiology Associates, Manchester, and member, ECHN medical staff; Diana Norris, acute care nurse practitioner, Northeastern Pulmonary Associates, Vernon, and member, Allied Health Professional Staff at ECHN; Thomas Robinson, attorney, Penny Botticello & O’Brien, Manchester; Joel L. Rosenlicht, D.M.D., oral and maxillofacial surgeon, Rosenlicht & Ansari Oral Surgery Center, Manchester, and member, ECHN medical staff; Robert A. Schwartz, M.D., pathologist, Eastern Connecticut Pathology Associates, which provides pathology services to ECHN; and, Lynn Shea, recreational therapist, Maple View Manor, Rocky Hill.
Karen Butler, vice president of communications of the National MS Society, Connecticut Chapter, received the 2008 MS Motorcycle Ride, its top fundraiser award. Butler, whose grandmother battled multiple sclerosis, raised $4,184 toward the $8,500 that her team collected.
Charles LeConche, business manager for the Connecticut Laborers’ District Council, has been appointed to the Connecticut Employee Misclassification Advisory Board by Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell. Established July 1, the six-member Employee Misclassification Advisory Board will advise the joint enforcement commission on employee misclassification issues in the construction industry in the state.
Prudential Connecticut Realty welcomed nine agents formerly with William Pitt/Sotheby’s. Joining Prudential’s Avon office are: Robyn Bernard, Fran Cooley and Jana Petano. New to the company’s Farmington office are: Anna Maria Cerza, Patty Hacket, Boni Rothman and Gerry Winters. In addition, Hope Firestone and Raeann Yadach have joined the West Hartford office.
Louis Mangene of West Hartford has joined Barnum Financial Group as a financial services representative working out of its Wethersfield office. Mangene holds Series 7 and 66 securities registration and is licensed to sell life and health insurance. Prior to joining BFG, Mangene worked as an accountant for the UConn Alumni Association.
