Moving up in Southern Arizona

Anshei Israel adds Kirschner in finance

Congregation Anshei Israel has named Susan J. Kirschner as finance director.

Kirschner has been involved in synagogue financial management and administration since 1996, and is skilled in budgeting, payroll, purchasing, membership development, fundraising/development and multi-fund endowment oversight, Anshei Israel said in a news release.

She holds a master’s degree in arts administration and recently moved from the Detroit area to Tucson.

UA and Banner welcome

neonatologist Patel

Dr. Shalin Patel has joined the University of Arizona Department of Pediatrics and Banner Children’s at Diamond Children’s Medical Center.

As a neonatologist, Patel will provide care for high-risk newborns with critical clinical conditions, prematurity and birth defects, and provide care for other newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Diamond Children’s.

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He received his medical degree from C.U. Shah Medical College in Surendranagar, India; did his pediatrics residency at Western Michigan University School of Medicine and a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. He also holds an MPH in health care administration from Benedictine University in Illinois.

Tucson ‘J’ announces four new employees

The Tucson Jewish Community Center, also known as The J, announces four hirings:

Kathy “Kat” Rodriguez, assistant director of digital marketing and communications; Eva Karene Romero, grant writer; LeeAnn Perry-Walker, member relations coordinator; and Andrea Wright, operations coordinator.

Rodriguez was a marketing specialist at the University of Arizona Medical Network for seven years. She holds an associate of arts degree from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles and a bachelor’s and a master’s of business education from the American InterContinental University in Chicago.

Romero’s book, “Film and Democracy in Paraguay,” will be published by Palgrave Macmillan this year and she will co-direct a documentary film on women and women’s rights in South America. She received her PhD from the University of Arizona, where she taught Hispanic cultural studies and language classes. She is a board member of the Tucson Pima Arts Council.

Perry-Walker returns to The J, where she worked in 2003 as catering and sales director before working as director of catering at several hotels in Tucson. She holds a culinary degree.

Wright, who has worked for the last several years with special needs children and adults, holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology and is a Salpointe Catholic High School graduate.