People In Business

Centerstone, a national provider of behavioral health care is asking the community for nominations for the 2020 Community Champions awards. In 2005, Centerstone’s board of directors created the Community Champions Awards to recognize those in its communities who have: ·         Shown tremendous compassion and understanding of those experiencing mental illness and/or substance use disorder ·        …

Central Bank of St. Louis announced the addition of Linette Warnecke as a senior vice president, commercial lending officer. She will be working out of the O’Fallon, Ill., location. “We are excited to have added such a seasoned banker to our commercial banking team who will help us as we continue to grow and serve…

Sam Fink joins growing Glen Carbon agency AAdvantage Insurance Group in Glen Carbon recently hired Sam Fink as a sales agent.  In this position, Fink will be responsible for generating prospects, developing new relationships, and handling existing accounts to ensure total customer satisfaction for all personalized insurance plans. Fink currently plays for Saint Louis Football…

Gov. JB Pritzker has appointed Donald Wilkerson to serve on the Concealed Carry Licensing Review Board, pending Illinois Senate conformation. Wilkerson was appointed United States magistrate judge in the Southern District of Illinois in January of 2005 and retired in 2019. The East St. Louis native was the first African American judge appointed to that…

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville alumna, professor emerita and former SIU Board of Trustees member Shirley Portwood, PhD, always enjoyed engaging and helping students. “I loved working with the students at SIUE,” said Portwood. “It was a real treat.” Portwood, an accomplished and prolific writer, researcher and storyteller, is being honored with the university’s Distinguished Service…

Tom Addis has joined the Commercial Practice Group as an associate at the Edwardsville-based law firm of Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, P.C. “We’re pleased to welcome Tom to our firm where his transactional experience in real estate, business and commercial law complements our thriving commercial practice group,” said Mark Goldenberg, founder and managing partner of…

William R. Casperson, M.D., received the Matthew B. Eisele Physician Excellence Award on Feb. 22 at Memorial Regional Health Services annual Medical Staff Dinner. Casperson was chosen from among 19 nominations submitted by employees, peers, Auxiliary and board members. He served as Memorial’s chief medical officer since 2008. Prior to that he was a general…

The Edwardsville-based Gori Law Firm recently announced that Patrick Moroney has joined the firm as an attorney. Moroney will be working in the New York office of The Gori Law Firm. Moroney graduated from the City University of New York – Queens College with a B.S. in Political Science in 2008. He then obtained his…

Hailed as an “exceptional mentor,” “highly-accomplished and adaptable educator,” and an “authority on implementing flipped classrooms methodology,” Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Chaya Gopalan, PhD, has been named the American Physiological Society’s 2020 Arthur C. Guyton Educator of the Year. Gopalan is an associate professor in both the SIUE School of Education, Health and Human Behavior’s…

HSHS Medical Group says Dr. Brian Klostermann has been appointed chairperson of Clinton County Health Department, where he also serves as medical director. The chairperson appointment is for one year. Klostermann is a family and sports medicine physician at HSHS Medical Group Family & Internal Medicine Highland and Clinton County Rural Health Breese. The Clinton…