Total joint specialist Dr. John Harkess and pain management specialist Dr. Justin Sirianni have joined Coastal Orthopedics Sports Medicine and Pain Management, based in Bradenton.
Harkess completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Tennessee-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a lower extremity reconstruction fellowship at Scripps Clinic in California. He has a doctorate from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and a bachelor’s in biology from the University of Virginia.
Sirianni finished a pain medicine fellowship at Wake Forest University and the Carolinas Pain Institute. He completed his anesthesiology residency at University of Arizona Medical Center, where he also acted as its chief resident for a year. He has a doctorate from Drexel University College of Medicine and received a master's degree in biology from Chatham University.
Sirianni also obtained a bachelor's degree in Italian language and literature, with a minor in chemistry, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to English, he speaks basic Italian, Spanish and American Sign Language.
Premier Community Bank, which has branches in Venice, Parrish and Bradenton, recently promoted Cabot Hart from senior underwriter to chief credit officer at its Bradenton location.
Hart, who has more than 32 years of experience in the banking and financial industry, joined Premier Community Bank in March 2017. In his new role, he will lead the management of a team of credit analysts and loan operations professionals, oversee the existing loan portfolio, manage the credit quality of the bank and ensure that the bank adheres to all credit policy and standard underwriting guidelines.
Before joining Premier Community Bank, Hart acted as a senior credit administrator for Gateway Bank of Southwest Florida, now Center State Bank. He spent 17 years with Enterprise National Bank of Sarasota. Hart moved to Sarasota in 1985 and joined Southeast Bank in its Sarasota commercial lending department.
He has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Alabama.
The State College of Florida Foundation has hired a new director of development to lead fundraising for scholarships, equipment and capital campaigns at SCF. Barbara Lewis Bourgoin has been working in fundraising for more than a decade in Manatee and Sarasota counties.
She comes to the SCF Foundation after working as chief development officer for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee County. Bourgoin, a certified fundraising executive, also was development director for Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center and the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee.
Peter Magnuson has been selected as a 2017 Harbor Financial Services President’s Council member for the third year in a row. President Council membership is awarded based on high standards of production and compliance and recognizes professional dedication and achievements over the past year.
Magnuson has been a financial advisor with Harbor Financial Services since 2005, has 30-plus years of financial industry experience and is currently registered in numerous states. He owns Magnuson Financial in Sarasota.
Magnuson was awarded the President’s Council distinction at Harbor Financial Services’ annual Compliance Meeting in September in Mobile, Alabama.
Jessica Rogers is joining Children First as vice president of philanthropy.
Rogers comes to Children First from New College of Florida, the state’s designated Honors College for the liberal arts and sciences.
As the leader of Children First’s philanthropy department, she will provide strategic direction for fundraising, with the goal of expanding early childhood education and family services for our community’s most economically vulnerable children and families.
During her 11-year tenure at New College, she was associate vice president of advancement and associate director of the New College Foundation, acting as chief liaison with the New College Alumnae/i Association and its fundraising and engagement programs. She joined the college in July 2006 as executive director of the New College Alumnae/i Association after working in banking and, before that, nonprofit and teaching work within higher education.
Children First is the nonprofit organization serving as Sarasota County’s exclusive provider of Head Start.
Iberia Wealth Advisors, a division of IberiaBank, has hired Lori A. Sutton as vice president, wealth advisor. A veteran of the financial services industry with 23 years of experience, Sutton will be responsible for providing fiduciary services and asset management strategies to help individuals, families and charitable organizations with their financial planning needs.
Sutton acquired the Certified Trust and Financial Advisor designation in 2011 and completed advanced training with the Florida Graduate Trust School in 2000. She most recently was a trust adviser with the Northern Trust Co.
Sutton moved to Sarasota nearly 35 years ago. In 2017, she completed the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Leadership Sarasota program. She is a member of the Southwest Florida Planned Giving Council. She volunteers with several local organizations to provide addiction counselling, as well as grief and peer counseling.
Sutton has a bachelor’s in human development from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg.
Dr. Sara Simmons, a hand-and-wrist specialist with Coastal Orthopedic Sports Medicine & Pain Management, was the head medical doctor for Suncoast Aquatic and Nature Center Associates Inc. during the 2017 World Rowing Championships at Nathan Benderson Park.
During the event, Sept. 24 through Oct. 1, Simmons acted as a liaison between SANCA and the doctors for the 69 rowing teams participating in the competition. As a former collegiate rower and U.S. National Team member, Simmons was able to bring insight as a medical professional and a former athlete. She won a gold medal in the Lightweight Women’s Four at the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Finland.
She spent most of her time making sure the athletes remained hydrated and made it safely across the finish line, while also coordinating any issues that arose between SANCA and the medical teams.
Bay Village of Sarasota has hired Eric Nichols as president/CEO. Nichols has over 29 years of experience in the senior living industry.
He was a licensed nursing home administrator in West Virginia and, more recently, was the executive director of Homewood at Frederick, in Frederick, Maryland.
Nichols has a bachelor’s in health planning and administration from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.
He plans to bring more information technology to the campus for residents and is also updating apartments with new features.
Jean Juchnowicz, owner of Human Resources Simplified in Sarasota, recently led a two-day professional development management program on “Critical Thinking and Problem Solving” for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, at training sites in Hialeah and Phoenix, Arizona.
Human Resources Simplified is a human resources consulting, training and facilitating company. Juchnowicz also owns Career Advice Simplified.
Bailey Williams Parker shareholder Charlie Bailey has been appointed chairman of the 2017-2018 Board of Directors of the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce. Bailey is a land-use attorney. He counsels developers and significant landowners on a variety of land-use matters. These include developments of regional impact, comprehensive plan amendments, rezonings, special exceptions, conditional use approvals, site plan approvals, variances and development agreements addressing concurrency issues. He is a seventh generation Floridian, a past board member of the United Way
Suncoast and past chairman of the United Way’s annual campaign. He received his Juris Doctor and bachelor’s degree from Mercer University. Williams Parker is located in Sarasota.
Christy Williams Parker attorney Erin Hope Christy has been appointed president of the Young Lawyers Division of the Sarasota County Bar Association. The mission of the YLD is to integrate young lawyers into the legal profession by stimulating their interest in bar association activities, social and educational programs, and public service projects, and by providing young lawyers with a voice in the state and local bar associations. Christy focuses her practice in the areas of real estate and land use. She handles complex residential and commercial real estate matters, including land use and zoning matters, developer representation, landlord representation, and purchaser and seller representation in connection with residential and commercial purchase and sale transactions. She is a past board member and current chairman of community grants for the Junior League of Sarasota, where she oversees the stewardship of over $50,000 in grants to the Sarasota community. She received her Juris Doctor and bachelor’s degree from Florida State University. Williams Parker is located in Sarasota.
Chris Fowler and Alexandra “Ally” Salerno Glauser have joined the growing team of associate attorneys at Norton, Hammersley, Lopez & Skokos PA, a Sarasota business and litigation law firm serving the state of Florida.
Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida has announced a new chairman, along with the addition of eight new members to its Board of Directors.
Laurie Cowan-Phillips, former board chairman of Planned Parenthood Collier County and vice chairman of PPSWCF’s board, will serve as chairman for the 2017 Board of Directors.
The new board members are Mandi Ballard Clay, of Tampa; Edward Kolesar, of Naples; Georgine Lamvu, of Orlando; Kate Lannaman, of Osprey; Cornelle Maxfield, of University Park; Dr. Jennifer Sandoval, of Orlando; Ellen Seidensticker, of Sarasota; and the Rev. Dawson Taylor, of Naples.
Cowan-Phillips has over 25 years of executive experience planning and developing major facilities for such well-respected institutions as Children’s Hospital Boston. Her range of expertise includes strategic planning and project management, capital planning, financial management, real estate acquisition and operations, and facility planning and design.
She was on the boards of the Tufts Health Plan and the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Health Care. Following her move to Naples, Cowan-Phillips became actively involved in charitable work as a board member of Planning Parenthood of Collier County and Moorings Park, a continuing care retirement community. She is an alum of Boston University, where she received her undergraduate degree from the College of Liberal Arts, and her Master of Business Administration. She has a Certificate of Advanced Negotiation and Conflict Resolution from the Harvard School of Public Health.
The new board members will serve two years terms beginning this year.
Benny Brown, a team member at the LongHorn Steakhouse in Sarasota, has been presented with the Team Member of the Year Award, the company’s top honor for restaurant team members. He is one of just four team members selected this year from the more than 28,000 LongHorn Steakhouse employees in North America.
Presented annually, the award recognizes team members who consistently go above and beyond to provide LongHorn guests with a memorable dining experience. In addition, honorees are recognized for embodying LongHorn’s core values; treating everyone with dignity, respect, honesty and integrity; and making significant contributions to the overall success of the restaurant.
Brown joined the LongHorn Steakhouse team more than 20 years ago, and exudes positivity and energy throughout the restaurant. At 65, Brown hung up his chef’s coat to enjoy retirement. Only eight months later, he was back at work in the LongHorn on Gulf Gate drive.
Dr. Eric A. Liss has joined the ophthalmology/surgical staff at Community Eye Center and St. Lucy’s Eye Surgery Center.
Liss, a native Floridian who was born and raised in Sarasota, completed his undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee followed by graduate studies in public health and epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta.
He then returned to Florida, where he received his medical degree, summa cum laude, from the Florida International University College of Medicine in Miami.
Liss completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he was a chief resident.
He is a comprehensive ophthalmologist with an interest in advanced cataract surgery, macular degeneration and inflammatory disorders of the eye.
Community Eye Center and St. Lucy’s Eye Surgery Center has three locations, in Port Charlotte, Venice and North Port.
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Paul Eisenbarth retired from UPS in Sarasota on Oct. 31 after 33 years of service.
A new pediatrician has joined Sarasota Memorial Health Care System’s First Physicians Group.
Dr. Jose Tavarez is accepting new patients at FPG Pediatrics at Lakewood Ranch. He joins pediatricians Katherine Keeley, Wendy Hurwitz, Charlotta Langley and Rene Sueiro. Tavarez succeeds pediatrician Robert Shamsey, who recently retired from the practice after more than 42 years.
Board certified in pediatrics, Tavarez has worked as a pediatrician since 2013, providing medical and preventive care to infants, children and adolescents in outpatient and inpatient settings in Amory, Mississippi, and serving as chairman of the Pediatrics Department at Merit Health Gilmore Memorial Hospital in Amory for the past year.
He has a medical degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, where he also completed a yearlong training program to become certified as an assistant professor in biochemistry, physiology and pharmacology.
In 2013, Tavarez completed a pediatrics residency at the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Bronx, New York. From 2004 to 2010, he was assistant professor and professor in biochemistry, molecular biology and physiology at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra.
Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s medical staff recently honored two physicians for outstanding service to the hospital and the community and installed its new leaders for 2017–2018.
Sarasota pediatrician Dr. Katherine Keeley was awarded the health system’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, while interventional radiologist Dr. Scott Perrin was named 2017 Physician of the Year. Both were selected by a committee of physician leaders and recognized at Sarasota Memorial's annual medical staff meeting.
Keeley was honored for her commitment to the community and myriad leadership roles that helped build a comprehensive safety net and specialized network of care for children in the Suncoast region. Over the years, she has been SMH’s chief of staff and chief of pediatrics, and worked on multiple hospital committees and quality initiatives. She helped create and strengthen SMH’s affiliation and clinical partnership with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, supporting a collaborative care model for hospitalized children and premature or critically ill newborns.
The medical staff honored Perrin as 2017 Physician of the Year. He joined SMH’s medical staff in 2013 as part of the health system’s new partnership with Radiology Associates of Florida/Florida Interventional Specialists.
Perrin quickly established his expertise in complex interventional radiologic procedures, treating a wide array of diseases and conditions throughout the body with minimally invasive, image-guided procedures.
In addition to his busy practice, he provides valuable guidance on multiple SMH medical committees, including cancer, critical care and infection control, and is on the faculty of FSU College of Medicine, helping to educate FSU’s third- and fourth year medical students, and soon, newly graduated physician residents completing specialty training at SMH.
The SMH Medical Staff also appointed the 2017-2018 Medical Executive Committee officers. Dr. Kyle Garner was named chief of staff, serving as the top representative of Sarasota Memorial’s more than 900 medical staff members. He succeeds Dr. Scott Stevens, whose one-year term as chief of staff ended Oct. 31. Garner, who was chairman of the health system’s OB-GYN section for several years, has been a member of SMH’s medical staff since 2006.
Dr. Joseph Seaman was named chief of staff-elect, while Dr. Jon Yenari was named secretary/treasurer and Dr. Karen Hamad and Dr. Jeffrey Sell were named members at large.
James Pastor has joined Atlas Building Co., of Sarasota, as senior project manager to further assist Atlas with its growing portfolio of commercial projects.
He comes with a wealth of experience in the construction industry, having begun his career as an apprentice straight out of high school and steadily progressed to positions of project superintendent, project manager, estimator, project executive and vice president of preconstruction services, working in both the public and private sectors.
Pastor’s recent project management experience includes the 40,000-square-foot, $4.2 million Manatee School for the Arts and two FedEx office and warehouse distribution centers of 190,000 and 125,000 square feet.
Andria Bilan has been hired as the chief executive officer of JoshProvides Epilepsy Assistance Foundation after 18 years as vice president of development at Jewish Family & Children’s Service of the Suncoast Inc.
Bilan has more than 40 years of executive nonprofit experience in Pennsylvania and Florida, including positions with the United Way, YWCA and JFCS. Bilan succeeds co-founder and executive director Bruce P. Chapnick, who, along with his wife Sandi, established JoshProvides in memory of their son, Joshua David, who suffered from epilepsy and passed away in 2008.
JoshProvides supports those living with epilepsy and other seizure disorders and their caregivers.
Holder of a master’s degree in accounting, Bryen has more than 18 years of experience in sales, management, taxation, auditing, investment strategies, business and investment consulting, and financial planning. He most recently was an investment adviser for a prominent financial planning firm in Venice and has also been a manager, consultant and adviser at other firms in Venice and Sarasota. He has a bachelor’s degree from Kent State University in Ohio and a master’s degree from Phoenix University. Bryen is based at the bank’s Venice office.