Technology Council promotes Rodriguez
The Arizona Technology Council promoted Alex Rodriguez to vice president of its Southern Arizona Regional Office.
Rodriguez began his career with the council in September 2012 as the office’s director.
After becoming an Army officer at 20, Rodriguez obtained his B.A. in political science from the University of Arizona. Before receiving his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, he worked at the Arizona State Senate, the United Nations Association in New York, and with the U.S. State Department in El Salvador. A former term member of the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, he served as a U.S. Defense Department international policy adviser, country director and special assistant at the Pentagon.
In the private sector, Rodriguez worked for Raytheon from 2002 through 2008. He went on to become founder and managing director of Client Attraction Strategy Advisors.
Emergency physician Cairns coming to UA
Dr. Charles B. Cairns was appointed assistant vice president for clinical research and clinical trials at the Arizona Health Sciences Center and vice dean and a professor of the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson.
Cairns will join the UA in November after serving as professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He has been principal investigator of the National Collaborative for Bio-preparedness and as the associate director of the U.S. Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group. He also recently served as principal investigator of the National Regionalization of Emergency Medical Care Services Framework Project.
He previously was associate chief of emergency medicine at Duke University Medical Center and director of emergency medicine research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, among other positions.
His awards include the American College of Emergency Physicians Outstanding Contribution in Research Award and the highest award of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
Oncologist Bhasin part of UA Health Network
Dr. Neha Bhasin joins the University of Arizona Department of Pediatrics and the University of Arizona Health Network as an assistant professor in the Division of Hematology/ Oncology.
As a pediatric oncologist, Bhasin will provide care for children with cancer, bleeding and clotting disorders, sickle cell anemia and thalassemia at the University of Arizona Medical Center’s Diamond Children’s hospital, the pediatric hematology/oncology outpatient clinic at the UA Medical Center’s University Campus, and Children’s Rehabilitative Services.
She will also serve as director of the Pediatric Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center at UAMC.
Bhasin earned her medical degree from Ross University in the West Indies and completed her pediatrics residency at Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York.
Sierra Tucson gets clinical, intake help
Sierra Tucson named Jaime W. Vinck as chief clinical officer. Also, Rich Appert joins the facility as director of intake.
Practicing psychotherapy in Arizona for more than 10 years, Vinck is a cicensed professional counselor and a nationally certified counselor. In addition to having a private practice in Scottsdale, Vinck is the founder of Hoofprints to Healing, an equine psychotherapy program targeted at addressing the emotions underlying addiction. She teaches in the Master of Counseling Program at Grand Canyon University as an adjunct faculty member.
Appert’s experience has included management positions at Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches and Seaside Palm Beach in Southern Florida. He has developed systems in admissions, alumni teams and insurance departments.
Geriatrics researcher Bhattacharjee at UA
Sandipan Bhattacharjee joined the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy as an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science.
He completed his Ph.D. in health outcomes research from West Virginia University, received a master’s degree in pharmacy administration from the University of Houston and a bachelor’s of pharmacy from Jadavpur University in India.
Bhattacharjee will focus his research in the geriatric population and intends to continue to study neurodegenerative diseases, oncology and diabetes.
Rottier to work on tech
at College of Pharmacy
Peter Rottier joined the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy as coordinator of instructional learning and technology.
Rottier will implement technological tools for faculty and students to help improve student learning outcomes. He will also establish the distance learning initiatives between the Tucson and Phoenix pharmacy cohorts.
Previously, Rottier worked as director for eLearning, was senior instructional designer at Cleveland State University and instructional technology specialist at the University of Wisconsin.
Gaare is Long manager at Golder Ranch office
Lisa Gaare is the new branch manager for Long Realty’s Golder Ranch office.
Gaare has more than 30 years of management experience in technical fields and eight years of real estate experience in Tucson. She was most recently a sales manager at Long’s Foothills office.
She will continue her online leadership of an internet response group of Long Realty agents called the iTEAM.
Meister joins Sunstreet
as senior loan officer
Tucson-based Sunstreet Mortgage hired Matt Meister as vice president and senior loan officer.
With more than 17 years of experience, Meister has been named one of the top 1 percent of loan originators in the United State more than once.
Lyon to herd projects for Tierra Right of Way
Tierra Right of Way Services hired Jerry Lyon as a principal investigator for its Environmental Planning and Cultural Resources Division.
Lyon brings more than 20 years of archaeological experience in the Southwest and will lead and oversee projects for Tierra throughout the region.
He has led archaeological and cultural resource landscape survey, testing, and data recovery projects for federal, state and private clients in Arizona, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico. He is a specialist in GIS technology and develops databases for spatial analysis and quality control.
Blue Cross’ VonHamm jumping to Humana
Humana Inc. named Kenda vonHamm market director for senior product operations for Arizona and Nevada.
She will be based in Humana’s Phoenix market office.
VonHamm has more than 25 years of health-care experience in the commercial and Medicare markets. Before joining Humana, she was senior compliance consultant for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. She has a bachelor’s degree in business and public administration from the University of Arizona.
