Posted: Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:00 am
Appointments and promotions: Katie Folland pursued freelance graphic design upon graduation and has since joined the Image Management team.
Her role is to manage the photography library and usage rights for Bunge Ltd., a New York-based agribusiness and food producer with integrated operations worldwide.
Kelli Ostermann, Sachin Panchal and Heather Stanley-Christian have joined Wheaton Franciscan Medical Group's offices at Spring Street and Banker's Road.
Ostermann is board certified in pediatrics and received her medical degree from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine in Grand Forks, N.D.
She completed a residency program in pediatrics at Iowa Methodist Medical Center/Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. She is located at the Walk-In offices, (formerly, PromptCare) at 3807 Spring St. and can be reached at (262) 687-8150.
Panchal joins the Banker's Road primary care physicians after serving as a Hospitalist with a Multispecialist Group at Elkhart General Hospital in Elkhart, Ind. He is board certified in internal medicine and received his medical degree from the B.J. Medical College in Ahmedabad, India. Panchal completed an internship in Internal Medicine at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Jamaica, N.Y. and a residency program in internal medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Montgomery, Ala.
Panchal practices at the Banker's Road office, 6232 Bankers Road, and can be reached at (262) 687-7606.
Stanley-Christian specializes in genetic counseling in addition to consult for high-risk pregnancies, and is the newest member of our Maternal Fetal Medicine specialists serving southeast Wisconsin.
Stanley-Christian is board certified in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, OB/GYN and Medical Genetics. She received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. and completed a Master of Science in Biochemical Pharmacology at the University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdon. In addition, she completed a fellowship in Clinical Genetics Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Medical Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C., as well as a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine through Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
She most recently practiced with Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates of Maryland in Rockville, Md. Stanley-Christian practices at WFH-AlI Saints, Elmbrook Memorial, St. Francis and Wauwatosa. Her primary office is located at 201 N. Mayfair Road in Wauwatosa, and she can be reached at (414) 259-7480 or at (262) 687-3111 in Racine.
Honors and Awards: Melissa Gerner is one of 15 emerging agricultural leaders selected to participate in the Farm Bureau Institute.
The year-long leadership training program's mission is to develop strong and effective county farm bureau leaders.
The class will first meet in January and focus on public speaking, identifying personality and leadership skills and etiquette. Subsequent sessions will focus on media training, local and state government, Farm Bureau structure and function, and national and international future agricultural issues.
Certifications: Darin Campagna of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network has been conferred his Chartered Life Underwriter designation from the American College.
With a Chartered Life Underwriter designation, Campagna has achieved the highest level of studies in the life insurance profession enabling him to provide a wider range of solutions for the life insurance needs of individuals, business owners and professionals, including income replacement, estate analysis and wealth transfer.
Elections: Jane Blain Gilbertson has been appointed to the Johnson Bank-Wisconsin Board of Directors. Blain Gilbertson is the co-owner of Blain Supply and the 34 Blain's Farm & Fleet stores across central and southern Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa.
Compiled by Sharon Knox
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