DOCTORS

DOCTORS

Columbiana graduate

Krystle Crittenden of Columbiana has received her doctor of medicine degree from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in Erie, Pa.

A 2001 graduate of Columbiana High School, she completed her undergraduate work at Ohio University in Athens, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in biology.

During her years in medical school, Dr. Crittenden was inducted into the Sigma Sigma Phi national honorary service fraternity. She was also a member of the American Psychiatry Association, American Osteopathic Association, Undergraduate American Academy of Osteopathy, American Academy of Family Physicians and the Student Osteopathic Surgical Association.

She will complete a medical residency in psychiatry at The Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga.

She is the daughter of Les and Patty Crittenden of Columbiana.

LEADERSHIP

Ohio Board of Pharmacy

Brian Joyce, a Girard native and a Walgreens pharmacy supervisor, is now a member of the Ohio Board of Pharmacy.

He was appointed to the nine-member board overseeing patient care, communication and compliance in August.

Joyce has been a pharmacist for 28 years, having graduated from the University of Toledo. One key initiative he is passionate about is pharmacist-delivered immunization services in light of the increased curiosity and concern about H1N1 flu or swine flu.

Joyce has been a Walgreens pharmacy supervisor in the Pittsburgh North district for three years. The district covers northwest Pennsylvania and Northeast Ohio. His wife’s name is Susan.

LAWYERS

Chief Bar Counsel

The State Bar of Arizona’s chief executive officer today appointed Maret Vessella, a native of Ellwood City, Pa., to serve as its new Chief Bar Counsel.

The Chief Bar Counsel oversees the State Bar’s Lawyer Regulation Department. The department helps to ensure that 16,000 attorneys permitted to practice in the state meet professional conduct standards and that Arizonans are protected from potential harm caused by attorneys who fall short of the state’s ethical standards.

Atty. Vessella will work closely with the Arizona Supreme Court on discipline proceedings. She will supervise the State Bar’s team of 40 lawyers and legal support staff.

She has been a member of the State Bar of Arizona since 1998 and the Pennsylvania Bar since 1992.

Before working at the State Bar, she served as disciplinary counsel for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel from 1994 to 1997. She was in private practice in Lawrence County from 1992 to 1994 and served as a legal intern for Justice Stephen A. Zappala of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Vessella earned her law degree at Ohio Northern University in 1992 and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh in 1989. She is a member of the Arizona Women Lawyers Association.

She and her husband, David McNeil, have a son, Noah, and live in Phoenix.

Vessella’s mother, Rosemary Vessella, and her sister, Suzanne Vessella, live in Ellwood City. Her sister, Lorrin Bowser, lives in Cranberry Township, Pa., and her brother, Mark Vessella, lives in Harrisburg.

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