People on the Move: May 10
This is a weekly roundup of promotions, appointments and employee accomplishments in the Birmingham metro area. For more People on the Move, check out the Birmingham Business Journal’s print edition each week. Send announcements to ccrawford@bizjournals.com.
HEALTH CARE
Home Instead Senior Care in Birmingham owner Dan Pahos won the Hallmark II award for outstanding business performance at the Home Instead Senior Care annual international meeting held in Omaha, Neb.
Dr. Gary Monheit, associate clinical professor of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Alabama Medical Center, was one of the lead investigators and national spokesman for the Sculp-tra Aesthetic, which was determined in a study published in the Journal of American Academy of Dermatology to be more effective than a human-derived collagen treatment Cosmo-Plast in cosmetic treatments.
INSURANCE
John D. Johns, chairman, president and CEO of Protective Life Corp. (NYSE:PL) is scheduled to speak at the UBS Global Financial Services Conference on May 11 in New York.
Allstate personal financial representative Darren Bright qualified for membership in the 2009 Million Dollar Round Table. Bright has represented Allstate for more than two years in Helena and can provide customers with variable annuity, variable life and mutual fund products and life insurance products. Bright earned the personal financial representative title after passing the NASD Series 6 and Series 63 securities license exams and completing an extensive Allstate training curriculum. Bright is appointed with the registered broker-dealer Allstate Financial Services LLC.
LEGAL
William W. Horton, an attorney with Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker LLC, will be a featured speaker at the 20th Annual National Institute on Health Care Fraud, sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section and Health Law Section in Miami Beach. Horton will lead a session entitled “Ethical Issues in Criminal and Civil Fraud Cases.” Bill Horton serves as chair of Haskell Slaughter’s Transactional Practice Group and leads the firm’s health care practice.
MEDIA
Birmingham-Jefferson Film Office Executive Director Mark Stricklin received the Arthur M. Loew Jr. Crystal Vision Award at Locations Trade Show in Santa Monica, Calif., earlier this month. The Birmingham-Jefferson Film Office is a division of the Birmingham Business Alliance savings account payday loans. Stricklin has 23 years of experience working with film commissions. In that time, he has served on numerous committees and task forces, the AFCI board of directors and as an AFCI event volunteer. Stricklin also was a member of the inaugural class of Certified Film Commissioners, the highest level of accomplishment in the profession. He is the thirteenth recipient of the Crystal Vision Award.
NONPROFITS
Bill Cash founded the new nonprofit Gaining Life Initiative Foundation to increase the knowledge about brain tumors and raise support for research. Cash, who was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme, the most metastatic and fatal type of brain tumor, in the spring of 2008, founded the foundation in the fall of 2009 with a specific focus on Glioblastoma Multiforme Brain Cancer research with the objective of extending life expectancy and finding a cure for this deadly form of cancer. Cash underwent treatment and is now in remission.
TRANSPORTATION
Alabama Trucking Association recently honored Gene Vonderau, longtime director of safety and member services, with the H. Chester Webb Award for Distinguished Service, an honor that recognizes fleet professionals for service and leadership to their community and industry. ATA officials gave Vonderau the award at the group’s 72nd Annual Convention and Meeting recently in Destin, Fla. Vonderau is the first safety director to win the award in its 54-year history. Vonderau has been involved with fleet safety management for more than 40 years, overseeing safety departments for some of Alabama’s largest and most successful trucking firms. In 1999, he assumed the reins of ATA’s safety efforts, and has since made the Association a leading advocate for fleet and highway safety.
UNIVERSITIES
University of Alabama at Birmingham assistant professor of philosophy and economics Erik Angner is among the winners of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Templeton Enterprise Awards. Angner, who teaches philosophy in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences and economics in the UAB School of Business, won third prize for his 2007 book “Hayek and Natural Law,” on the life and work of the renowned 20th century economist Friedrich A. Hayek. The award came with a $2,500 cash prize.
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