Dr. J. Kevin Carmichael
- Dr. J. Kevin Carmichael: The Southern Arizona HIV physician is being honored by the Center for Health and Hope with the 2017 Leadership Award. Dr. Carmichael serves as the medical director for the Special Immunology Associates clinic at El Rio. He was nominated for the award by the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network. Dr. Carmichael came to Tucson in 1990 and did a fellowship in Family Medicine at the University of Arizona. In 1991, he joined El Rio Community Health Center and began El Rio Special Immunology Associates — the first full-time HIV Clinic in Southern Arizona. Over the past 25 years, SIA has grown to serve approximately 1,200 persons living with HIV, providing primary and specialty care.
- Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona: Local companies will be honored next month at the BBB of Southern Arizona’s Torch Awards. The companies show a solid commitment to building marketplace trust. The 2017 finalists for the Ethics Award are Contact One Call Center, High-End Used Saddles, Plum Windows & Doors, and Water-Tec of Tucson. Up for the Good Neighbor Award is DK Advocates, Hamstra Heating & Cooling, Hughes Federal Credit Union and Tucson Federal Credit Union. Finalists for the Customer Excellence Award are Agility Spine & Sports Physical Therapy, Fish Window Cleaning, Sunshine Experts and The Motivator Personal Fitness. The Spark Award finalists are Green Valley Cooling and Heating, Hayes Construction, Plum Windows & Doors and The Savvy Copywriter.
- Rockafellow Law Firm: Attorney Leighton H. Rockafellow Sr. has achieved recertification as a civil trial advocate with the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Rockafellow has been an NBTA member in good standing for 25 years. Approximately 3 percent of American lawyers are board certified.
- University of Arizona: Kacey Ernst, infectious-disease epidemiologist at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has been selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Public Engagement Fellowship. Ernst’s primary research interests are in determining how human-environment interactions alter risk of vector-borne disease transmission. She specifically focuses on questions surrounding the emergence of Aedes mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue and Zika in the U.S.-Mexico border region and the development and uptake of sustainable control strategies for malaria in western Kenya.
