People In Business

HSHS Medical Group Family & Internal Medicine in Highland has added welcome Lauren Lawson, APRN, to its team of providers. Lawson is now accepting patients of all ages at HSHS Medical Group Family & Internal Medicine, located at 12860 Troxler Ave., Suite 320. Lawson completed her bachelor’s in community health education at Illinois State University…

HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital recently named Angela Nelson as stroke coordinator for HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Teleneurology Stroke Program. Nelson, a resident of Okawville, has experience as a critical care RN in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab and Emergency Department. She has been a registered nurse since 2006 and is currently enrolled in the Master of Science…

The law firm of Walton Telken added personal injury attorney William S. Beatty effective Jan. 1. Beatty, of Edwardsville, joins the firm in an “of counsel” capacity. Beatty has extensive experience handling cases involving workplace injuries, product and equipment failures and motor vehicle collisions. He has spent his career assisting victims of serious personal injuries…

The Illinois Soybean Association has hired Heather Atkinson, effective with the start of the new year, as support services coordinator. In the role, Atkinson will help coordinate, implement and measure projects for ISA programs. She will work with oversight and implementation of organizational data, project and contract reviews, performance management and provide support to organizational…

Tucker Ellis LLP promoted Scott Hunsaker to counsel effective Jan. 1. Hunsaker focuses on complex civil litigation matters, including product liability, premises liability, and toxic and mass tort, as well as corporate motor vehicle accidents. He works from the office in St. Louis. He represents individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies in state and…

Centerstone, a national provider of behavioral health care, recently named Andrea Quigley, PhD, LCPC, as a clinical director in Southern Illinois. Quigley will oversee the Medication Assisted Treatment clinic implementation and grant and oversee customer care services and outpatient counseling services for Carbondale, Marion and West Frankfort outpatient offices, and the Bureau of Federal Prisons…

Belleville-based HSHS Hospice Southern Illinois announced that Michelle Kenny has accepted the position of their Hospice and Supportive Care manager. She has been serving as the interim hospice manager since August 2018. Kenny leads from the HSHS Hospice office location in Belleville, assisting in the daily operations of the Hospice and Supportive Care Programs for…

Edwardsville-based Gori Julian & Associates, P.C. has recently announced that Evan R. Cole has joined the firm as an attorney. Cole will be working at the California office of Gori Julian & Associates in the practice area of asbestos litigation. Cole graduated from Arizona State University with a B.A. in Communications in 2002. He then…

Adam Ohms didn’t always plan on becoming a veterinarian, but 14 years after graduating college he’s now operating his own practice and is the new director of Madison County Animal Care and Control. “I think that I’m different from most veterinarians because I did not always know I wanted to be one,” Ohms said. Ohms…

    Gregg Korte has been named the new president of Highland-based general contracting company Korte & Luitjohan, taking on an operation begun in his family 60 years ago.    Company founder Pete Korte will continue as the CEO of the company.    Gregg Korte began his career as a heavy equipment operator in 1978, then moved up…