Community

Cultural

Florida Theatrical Association, the nonprofit presenter of Broadway in Orlando, Miami, and Fort Lauderdale, has announced the organization’s new executive board following its 2019 board of directors meeting. Michael Goodman was selected as board chair for a three-year term, having served the previous three as vice chair. Goodman is a board member of Slow Burn Theatre Company and Art & Culture Center Hollywood. He is also board chair of Neighbors 4 Neighbors. FTA also announced that former board secretary Frank Bolaños will now serve as vice chair, with Dr. Mary Palmer as secretary, and Rhoda Levitt as treasurer. Other board members include Andrew Calienes, Wendy Connor, Susan Euler, Alex Gonzalez, Debra Weiss Goodstone, George Hoch, Susie Krajsa, Jan McArt, Dr. William Robinson, H. Bryant Sims, Betty Welch, Miles Wilkin, and Joan Javitz Zeeman.

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale appointed Francie Bishop Good as chair of its board of governors. Good is an artist and advocate for the arts, and along with her husband, David Horvitz, established the Fort Lauderdale-based alternative arts space, Girls’ Club, with a mission of educating the public, nurturing careers of female artists and serving as a resource on the contributions of women to the field of contemporary art. She also cofounded the nonprofit organization Funding Arts Broward.

The Palm Beach Symphony announced that Y. Michele Kang has joined its board of directors. Kang is founder and chief executive officer of Cognosante and the Cognosante Foundation.

Kang that match journalists from the Caribbean, North America and Europe with representatives of the government, business, hospitality and development sectors to discuss tourism policies aimed at improving the lives of Caribbean people. For more information visit tinyurl.com/CMEx-Awards-2019.

The Greater Miami & The Keys chapter of the American Red Cross announced new members who have joined its board of directors: Alexander Michiels, Daniel Sanchez, Rev. Renato O. Santos and Marisa Wilson.

Education

FIU Distinguished Professor Madhavan Nair was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Nair has been awarded 14 U.S. patents during his career. Nair, an internationally renowned expert in nanotechnology and HIV research, is the founding chair of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine’s Department of Immunology and Nano-Medicine. He is also associate vice president of nanomedicine, associate dean of biomedical research, and director of the Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology at FIU. The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Nair’s current research focuses mainly on the role that drug abuse — of various substances like alcohol, morphine, cocaine, and methamphetamine — has on neuro-AIDS, neurological disorders caused primarily by HIV damage to the central and peripheral nervous systems. Nair is also developing therapeutic approaches to control neuroAIDS by specific drug targeting to the brain using his own patented nanotechnology.

Shannon Duff joined Oxbridge Academy as associate director of academic advising, student services, and college counseling, in West Palm Beach. In addition, Oxbridge Academy named Tyler Grimes as the Distinguished Visiting Artist in musical theater for the 2019-2020 school year.

The Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation has elected Hy Vaupen, managing partner of boutique investment banking firm, Vaupen Financial Advisors LLC, to its board of directors. The AEPi Foundation promotes the values of Alpha Epsilon Pi through leadership development, partnerships with educational and Jewish communal organizations and provisions of scholarships, financial support and programming for the betterment of AEPi brothers, their campuses and their community.

Medical

Broward Health Imperial Point named Randy Gross its new chief executive officer, from HCA Healthcare’s Kendall Regional Medical Center, where he was most recently chief operating officer and chief staffing officer.

Nova Southeastern University Board of Trustee member Zachariah P. Zachariah, M.D., was appointed to the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Advisory Council.

University Hospital & Medical Center announced Ben Harris was named chief executive officer, in Tamarac. Harris has held leadership positions with University Hospital’s parent company, HCA Healthcare, for the past eight years, recently as the chief operating officer at Medical City Las Colinas in Irving, Texas.

TissueTech Inc., a developer and clinical application of regenerative human birth tissue products marketed through its subsidiaries Bio-Tissue Inc. and Amniox Medica, Inc., appointed Timothy Hunter Hunter as vice president, reimbursement and government affairs to oversee enterprise-wide third-party payer and reimbursement activities, in Miami. Prior to joining TissueTech, Hunter was vice president, health economics, reimbursement & public policy for Musculoskeletal Clinical Regulatory Advisers LLC.

West Boca Medical Center named Cory Harow as the new medical director of the emergency department. He joined the West Boca Medical Staff in 2017. Before that, Harow was emergency medical director at Lakeside Medical Center, in Belle Glade, and also assistant medical director at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood.

Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center announced Captain Harold Lee Rosbach and Christian Zanartu have joined the board of directors. Rosbach is the lead star of Bravo’s hit television show Below Deck. He also serves on the Winterfest board of directors. Zanartu is senior vice president of Brown & Brown Insurance. Additionally, the Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center announced the addition of Dr. Helena Gaviria to its Primary Care Center.

Real estate

Mallory McCabe joined Boca West Realty, the on-site real estate company located in the Boca West Country Club’s Golf & Activities Center, focusing on selling properties within the private residential club community.

Finance

Bankers Healthcare Group added four employees to its Davie headquarters: Amanda Ortiz as a junior client relations administrator; Arleen Aponte as director of operations, card services;, Danielle Graham as a quality assurance specialist; and Carissa Duemig as a junior account manager.

Interior design

Anita Imbesi joined the team of interior designers at the Boca Raton, Clive Daniel Home showroom.

Human resources

Ryan Shea was promoted to president of Right Management Florida/ Caribbean region of the outplacement and talent management consulting firm within ManpowerGroup. He joined Right Management in 2009 after beginning his career in the banking industry.

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Hospitality

Bolay named Claude Delucia as operating partner of its new West Pines location.

Miguel Hernandez was named director of food and beverage at The Betsy Hotel, South Beach.

Public relations

O’Connell & Goldberg Public Relations promoted its longtime agency executive Matt Levinson to chief operating officer. Levinson was vice president. He joined the agency as an account executive in 2000.