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July 12, 2010

Movers & Shakers

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Two members of the University of Connecticut Health Center faculty have been awarded fellowships to the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women by the Drexel University College of Medicine.

The class of 54 includes Anne Kenny, from the UConn School of Medicine, and Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou, from the UConn School of Dental Medicine.

Kenny, of West Hartford, is an associate professor of medicine, director of the UConn Health Center’s master program in clinical and translational research and a geriatrician in the UConn Center on Aging. Dongari-Bagtzoglou, of Cheshire, is associate professor of dentistry and chair of the division of periodontology.

She practices periodontics and implant dentistry at University Dentists and has a National Institutes of Health-funded research program in oral infectious diseases.

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The Community Foundation of Greater New Britain has elected three new members to its board of directors: J. Leo Gagne, chief operating and financial officer, Tomasso Brothers Inc.; Lawrence Tanner, president of Capital Area Health Consortium; and Patricia M. Walden, vice president, Central Connecticut Senior Health Care Services.

Gagne is involved with the New Britain YMCA, the Shuttle Meadow Country Club, the Hospital of Central Connecticut, the New Britain Boys & Girls Club and has served on the foundation’s building committee for the past two years.

Tanner has been president and CEO of Bristol Hospital, New Britain General Hospital and CenConn Health Consortium, among others.

Walden has worked at numerous healthcare centers and nursing homes during her career. She opened Southington Care Center in 1990 as its first executive director. Walden served on a federal advisory committee on regulatory reform in 2002. In 2005, she was selected as Humanitarian of the Year by the CT Association of Not-for-Profit Providers of Services for the Aged.

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Michelle Zettergren has been named senior vice president, chief sales and marketing officer, at ConnectiCare health plans. In this role, she will oversee all sales and marketing functions while focusing on membership growth. Zettergren has a sales and marketing background at Anthem Blue Cross, including serving as regional vice president of underwriting for Anthem’s large group business.

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Yolanda K. Kodrzycki has been appointed director of the New England Public Policy Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Kodrzycki joined the Boston Fed as an economist in 1986. She has been a senior economist and policy advisor in the bank’s research department, specializing in regional, labor market, and public sector economics.

Kodrzycki is a former president and forecasting chair of the New England Economic Partnership.

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DreamSakes, a company that digitally preserves children’s artwork to raise money for schools, has added two to its sales and marketing teams.

Susan Jensen Smith joined DreamSakes as vice president of marketing. She brings over 15 years of experience in online/offline strategies.

In 2001, Smith was named employee of the year at Affinity Federal Credit Union. Wendy Garrett Phillips Fisher joins as art advocate.

Fisher has worked as a research assistant at the Mayo Clinic and a residential counselor at a group home for developmentally disabled adults.

 

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