People In Business

Barbara (Barb) Davidson of Belleville, was recently named Realtor of the Year by the Realtor Association of Southwestern Illinois. The annual Realtor of the Year Banquet was held March 28 at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill., and was sponsored by Illinois Realtors in support of the Illinois Real Estate Educational Foundation. The…

Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. announced that David Wasserman has joined the firm as an associate in its Employment & Labor practice group. He advises clients in matters related to employment and labor law and defends employers in both state and federal courts against allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and breach of contract. As a…

Dr. Elsayed Abo-Salem joined the Alton Memorial Hospital medical staff April 1. Abo-Salem is board certified in cardiology, interventional cardiology and echocardiology, and he has special interest in congestive heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, preventive cardiology and telemedicine. Abo-Salem joins St. Louis Cardiology Consultants in Medical Office Building A on the hospital campus after spending…

Steve Thompson, regional president of Carrollton Bank in Alton, has been named the 2022 auxiliary board chair for the Southwest Illinois Division of United Way of Greater St. Louis. He succeeds Gireesh Gupchup, director for university-community initiatives and professor of pharmacy at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, who has held the chair position since 2020.…

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy’s Lakesha Butler, PharmD, has received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Pharmacy Service from the American Pharmacists Association. Butler serves as the SOP’s inaugural director of diversity, equity and inclusion. She is committed to bringing about necessary changes in diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism, as well as health literacy…

FGM Architects says a school built in Mount Prospect, Ill., is the nation’s first net-zero energy renovated school that also meets the PHIUS+ Source Zero standard for using 40-60 percent less energy than conventional buildings. The certification is conferred by PHIUS (Passive House Institute US), a nonprofit organization committed to making high-performance passive building the…

Edwardsville-based Sivia Law recently hired a chief operations officer to assist with managerial duties. The position has been filled by St. Louis native, Jill O’Connell, who has experience in developing HR functions, cultivating a positive work environment, collaborating with all levels of management, managing employee relations and developing and communicating company-wide policies and procedures. Founder…

Jerseyville native and former head of the Jersey County Business Association, Beth Bear, will join the Great Rivers & Routes Tourism Bureau as an economic development specialist May 1. Bear will focus on tourism product development. The position is new to the bureau and reflects the transformational thinking needed to create the next great tourism…

Farmers & Merchants National Bank located at 1805 East Highway 50 in O’Fallon celebrated its grand opening and ribbon cutting on March 23. The branch is the seventh location for the bank and its third in St. Clair County.  Farmers & Merchants National Bank was established in 1906 in Nashville, Ill., and has been serving…

St. Elizabeth’s Hospital’s Wound Care Center in O’Fallon, along with centers at St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital in Effingham and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Highland, were among those named as recipients of the Center of Distinction award by Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. There were 555 centers eligible for the Center…