People On The Move

May 30,2008

Hirings

Kirkwood

Lutheran Senior Services named Kent Kirkwood its new administrator at Lenoir Woods, a continuing care retirement community in Columbia. Kirkwood has a long history serving the senior living community. For 10 years, he was president and CEO of the Groves, a retirement community in Independence, Mo. In 2004, he took an interim administrator's position with Lenoir Woods, and then worked for three years managing an LSS community in Jefferson City.

Emerson

Midwest Independent Bank has hired Robb. D. Emerson as its first vice president/information technology manager. He brings over 15 years of experience in technology to Midwest Independent Bank. Previously, Emerson was the regional sales manager with 3Com/TippingPoint Technologies, a network security company.

MIB Banc Services, LLC, the two-bank holding company of Midwest Independent Bank and Nebraska Banker's Bank, has hired Steven M. Launius as an IT auditor. Previously, Launius worked as an IT Professional at the University of Missouri where he was awarded the SANS GIAC Certified Firewall Analyst Accreditation, which validates the skills of computer security professionals.

Lidolph

Ryan Lidolph has joined First National Bank and Trust Company as a business banking officer. He is responsible for assisting business customers with financing for their companies. Lidolph has a dual degree in marketing and business management from Northwest Missouri State University. He was valedictorian of his graduating class at the Missouri Bankers Association School of Lending.

Susan Bell has been appointed general manager of the new Hampton Inn & Suites Columbia. The hotel located across Stadium Boulevard from the University of Missouri is scheduled to open this summer. Bell was general manager for several hotels during her 14 year career with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. Bell, originally from Harrisburg, began her hotel career in Columbia first at the Holiday Inn West and then at the old Campus Inn, which is now the new site of the Hampton Inn & Suites-Columbia at the University of Missouri.

Honors
The Columbia Historic Preservation Commission has honored John and Vicki Ott as Outstanding Local Historic Preservationists. The award, the first ever given by the commission, was presented May 29 at 907 Alley A, one of the Ott's most recent refurbishing projects. They have redeveloped and restored the Paramount Building at 9th and Cherry, which houses Bangkok Gardens and Kaldi's Coffee; and the Dorsey Building, 906-914 Broadway, occupied by Manhattan Closet, Merle Norman Cosmetics, Kayotea Tea Room and Elly's Couture. They are in the process of restoring four buildings on Walnut near Orr Street which are part of the warehouse/art village district; and along with their Tiger partners, the Ott's have completed Phase I restoration of the historic Tiger Hotel.

Kristi Ray, executive vice president of Columbia's Chamber of Commerce, was selected as a fellow in the Ford Foundation Regional Sustainable Development program. The fellowship is a 12-month program for regional leaders who help build communities and economies. Ray will be responsible for crafting a "regional action plan" that includes strategies to overcome regional obstacles to sustainable economic growth and prosperity. The ACCE selected 50 business-civic leaders to participate in the fellowship funded by the Ford Foundation.

Two University Hospital pharmacists received distinguished honors for their contributions to health-system pharmacy. The Missouri Society of Health-System Pharmacists named Joseph A Cameron III the organization's 2008 Pharmacist of the Year, and Edward Ege was selected as the MSHP Research and Education 2008 Garrison Award winner. Cameron is the pharmacy residency coordinator at the University Hospital. The Pharmacist of the Year Award is given annually to a MSHP member, out of more than 450 members. Ege serves as director of the pharmacy residency program, director of the pharmacy dosing service and director of the pharmacist anticoagulation service. The Garrison Award is presented annually to a MSHP member who shows outstanding accomplishment in practice.

Arshad Muzaffar, M.D., was recently named editor-in-chief of The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. Muzaffar is the director of craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery at University of Missouri Health Care. He oversees diagnosis and treatment of several complicated craniofacial anomalies. As a bi-monthly international publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, the journal reports on the study and treatment of surgical procedures and the latest research related to this abnormality. One out of every 600 newborn babies is affected by a cleft lip or cleft palate, the fourth most common birth defect in the United States.

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