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Justin Champagne of Middletown has been elected president of the Connecticut Academy of Physician Assistants, the professional society representing 1,600 physician assistants in Connecticut. At age 29, Champagne is one of the youngest ever elected president of the volunteer organization. Champagne has been actively involved in the academy since 2005, when he was appointed chairperson for the communications and public relations committee, a post he held for five years. After serving as vice president of the organization for the past year and a half, he became president on July 1. He will serve a minimum one-year term with the potential to serve up to three consecutive years. Since 2007, Champagne has been employed by Diagnostic Radiology Associates, a private radiology group affiliated with Waterbury Hospital, where he specializes in interventional radiology. Before joining Diagnostic Radiology Associates, Champagne worked as a physician assistant in the emergency department at MidState Medical Center in Meriden.
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Lyn Gammill Walker, a partner with the Shipman & Goodwin law firm, has received the Deborah Eldridge Service Award from the nonprofit Greater Hartford Estate and Business Planning Council. The award is presented to a member who exemplifies the organization’s spirit and efforts in support of the council and the community. Walker, who serves as Shipman & Goodwin’s diversity partner, practices in the areas of estate planning, estate settlement and trust administration including techniques for tax-effective inter-generational and charitable transfers. Her community service work includes service as statewide co-chair of Leave A Legacy Connecticut between 1999 and 2008, as a former chair of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving’s Advisory Committee, as a former board member of the Greater Hartford Arts Council and The Planned Giving Group of Connecticut, and as a past member of the board of Duncaster, Inc. and past chair of the Duncaster Foundation. Currently, she is a member of the Advisory Council of The Shelter for Women in Hartford, and the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, is a corporator at Hartford Hospital and the Oak Hill School in Hartford, and is a warden and vestry member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in West Hartford.
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Judite C. Vamvakides has been named director of annual giving at Sacred Heart University. The Hamden resident will plan and manage an annual giving program including university fundraising events and special solicitations. For the past three years, she has been a marketing coordinator and sales associate in Latin American equities for Credit Suisse in New York City. Prior to that assignment, she spent nine years associated with her alma mater, Southern Connecticut State University, where she rose to become assistant director for annual giving.
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Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C., one of the area’s largest independent accounting firms, has announced a series of promotions: Edward Engberg to audit supervisor; Brian Gelsomino to audit senior associate; John Higham to audit senior associate; Virginia Hilton to tax supervisor; Bryan Jambard to audit senior associate; Shaun Sheridan to audit supervisor; Thomas Wood to audit senior associate and Thomas Goldfuss, III to audit senior associate. The Technology Group, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C., has also announced that Michael Brown has been promoted to senior systems engineer.
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