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LOCAL
Hospital names development director
BOARDMAN — JoAnn Stock has been named director of development for Akron Children’s Hospital of the Mahoning Valley. Stock, who is located at the Beeghly Campus in Boardman, is responsible for coordinating all of the fundraising and foundation marketing efforts in the Mahoning Valley, including major gift initiatives, Children’s Miracle Network activities, special events and grants.
Stock is a Certified Fund Raising Executive and comes to Akron Children’s Hospital from United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, where she was director of marketing and resource development. Before joining United Way, she was marketing specialist at Burdman Group, and also spent many years in retail management with the J.C. Penney Co.
She is a graduate of Youngstown State University, where she received a bachelor of science and master’s degree in business administration with a major in advertising and public relations.
Dr. Christoper Seman joins Prima Health Care staff
COLUMBIANA — Prima Health Care’s staff of Board Certified physicians will be enhanced with the addition of Christopher R. Seman, D.O., in January 2009.
Dr. Seman will offer psychiatric examinations and treatment for both child and adult patients. He will practice out of Prima’s new Columbiana facility, 107 Royal Birkdale Drive, Columbiana, OH 44408, and Prima’s new Boardman facility, 7629 Market Street, Suite 100, Boardman, OH 44512. Dr. Seman graduated from the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1994. He completed internships at Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital and Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. He completed a psychiatric residency at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y and a family medicine residency at Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital. He earned a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at University Hospitals in Cleveland. Dr. Seman is board-certified in child, adolescent, and general psychiatry and family medicine.
NATION
401 salmonella cases linked
OMAHA, Neb. — Federal investigators raised to 401 the number of cases of salmonella linked to the Banquet pot pies recalled last year by ConAgra Foods Inc. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its final report this week on the fall 2007 outbreak and recall. The 401 cases of salmonella were reported in 41 states, the CDC said. No deaths were reported, but nearly one-third of whose who fell ill had to be hospitalized.
From Vindicator staff and wire reports