BUSINESS PEOPLE
BANKING
Bethany Reed has been promoted to vice president, retail operations officer for Farmers and Merchants Bank and The Bank of Fayetteville.
BUSINESS
Andrea Savage has been named lead executive of internal operations and information systems and technology for Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Kelly Lyon has been appointed director of workforce and community development for Arkansas State UniversityBeebe.
Ali Ubeyitogullari has joined the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, as a food engineer.
MEDICINE
Mitchell McGill, Ph.D., a researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,
recently became the first in Arkansas appointed to the Hepatotoxicity Working Group at the Critical Path Institute.
Magnolia Regional Medical Center has announced the addition of orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Kevin Rudder to its medical team. He will be seeing patients in the Magnolia Surgical Clinic.
Dr. Jeffrey Holt, an interventional cardiologist, has joined CHI St. Vincent Heart Institute.
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