People In Business

Patients of OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center in Alton will soon have access to a comprehensive network of pediatric providers through a recently-announced strategic affiliation with SSM Health, a Catholic health care system based in the St. Louis area. The latest collaboration will see Ameera Nauman, MD, a pediatrician at OSF Saint Anthony’s, move…

Anderson Hospital in Maryville is now a participant in The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The program has been adopted by health-care facilities around the world to celebrate nurses for their extraordinary care and compassion. Patients, families and colleagues may nominate nurses by sharing stories and submitting examples of how they were so special.  Awards…

Centerstone, a not-for-profit health system specializing in mental health and substance use disorder treatments, has promoted Megan Klaas to director of credentialing for its operations in Illinois and Tennessee. Previously operations director for Centerstone’s Illinois operations, Klaas joined Centerstone in 2017 as a credentialing manager. In her new role, Klaas leads all credentialing operations in…

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C., which serves clients in Metro East, announced that Benjamin D. Rotman has joined the firm as counsel in its intellectual property practice group. Rotman focuses on a wide range of complex matters, including U.S. and foreign patent and trademark prosecution, IP portfolio development and management, availability searches and clearance opinions,…

Neurosurgery of St. Louis, which serves both side of the bi-state area, announced the addition of a board-certified neurosurgeon with ties to the region. Neill M. Wright, MD, who has received national and international recognition as a cervical spine surgeon, comes to NSL with more than 20 years of experience and has performed more than…

Greg Lorsbach, a physical therapist with Alton Memorial Hospital’s Human Motion Institute, was recently named the 2021 Employee of the Year in a selection by hospital leadership from among last year’s 12 Employees of the Month. Although AMH was unable to hold its annual Employee Awards Banquet again this year because of the pandemic, the…

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Chaya Gopalan, PhD, has received a Fulbright Academic and Professional Excellence Award presented by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, supporting her international application of flipped classroom techniques. Gopalan is a professor in both the SIUE School of Education, Health and Human Behavior’s Department…

The stockholders of CNB Bank Shares Inc. have re-elected the incumbent board of directors for the ensuing year. The board held its annual meeting on Monday, April 25, in CNB’s corporate headquarters in Carlinville. In addition to receiving a report on the past year’s performance, stockholders re-elected to the parent company board: James Ashworth, Judith…

From left, Alton Memorial Hospital President Dave Braasch and OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dennis Sands accept awards from Alan Meyer, board member from the RiverBend Growth Association. OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center, Alton Memorial Hospital and several other groups and individuals were honored this week at the Chamber…

The Kaskaskia College Board of Trustees this month named three people to key positions. Trustees approved the appointment of KC’s Dean of Enrollment Services, Amy Troutt, to the college’s vice president of Student Services position, effective May 23. She is replacing Dr. Susan Batchelor, who is retiring after 12 years with the college on June…