Dr. Robert L. Beren - Assurance Hospice, a division of Sinfonia HealthCare Corp., named Dr. Robert L. Beren as associate medical director.

Beren went to the University of Arizona as an undergrad and the UA Medical School. He completed his family-practice residency in Denver and Fort Collins, Colo. He returned to the Tucson area in 1989.

His practice focus has been geriatrics for the last 15 years, including three years of hospice medical director experience.