MILESTONES

MILESTONES

HONORS

Forensics training

Brian Bradshaw, an assistant professor of computer science at Thiel College, Greenville, Pa., was recently selected to attend a weeklong mobile forensics-training program at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.

Chosen from a pool of nationwide applicants from both academic institutions and federal law-enforcement agencies, Bradshaw has been endowed by the National Science Foundation to take part in the program. His involvement will enable him to testify as an expert witness for court systems in cyber and mobile forensics. Upon completion, Bradshaw will incorporate mobile forensics into a course at Thiel College for both students and local law enforcement.

Bar foundation fellow

In recognition of his community service activities, Kevin P. Murphy, a Warren business lawyer and member with Harrington, Hoppe and Mitchell, Ltd., was inducted recently as a fellow with the Ohio State Bar Foundation.

Murphy is one of 46 Ohio lawyers who comprise this year’s class of fellows, the philanthropic arm of the OSBF. The fellowship involves a year of service to outreach programs across Ohio that help the public better understand the law.

The fellows were inducted in a Columbus ceremony led by Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor and foundation president Thomas Moushey.

He has been practicing law since 1985 and serves as chairman of the HHM management committee. His practice focuses on business transactions, workers’ compensation matters, litigation and employment law.

Murphy serves as president of the Trumbull Country Club and has served on the boards of the St. Joseph Development Foundation, Northeast Ohio Adoption Services, Youngstown Feis Society and several other community organizations. He also has served on the bar association’s Board of Governors and Council of Delegates. He is a member of the Trumbull County Bar Association Executive Committee and the chairman of its Certified Grievance Committee.

Officers recognized

Several New Middletown police officers and Mayor Harry Kale have been recognized and awarded commendations from the American Police Hall of Fame and Museum in Titusville, Fla.

The national awards program was established in 1972 to recognize acts of valor of law enforcement officers and is open to departments nationwide. The awards were presented at a recent police department and council quarterly meeting.

General commendation awards were presented to:

Patrolman J.T. Rober, who discovered a large garage fire while on patrol at 10:20 p.m. Jan. 17, 2016, and alerted the fire department and evacuated the residence. He discovered the cause of the fire and reported it to the fire department. The homeowner escaped injury, and damage to the structure was reduced.

Patrolman Brian Booksing discovered a mobile-home fire at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 8, 2016. Neighbors reported the homeowner was inside. Booksing entered the trailer and attempted to identify and rescue any victims. He was driven back by flames and smoke, suffered smoke inhalation and was treated at the scene.

Patrolmen Tyler Beck and Robert Martin responded to a medical emergency in a vehicle in January 2016 and found a woman in respiratory distress that progressed into full cardiac arrest. The officers removed her from her vehicle and attempted to revive her with CPR and a patrol unit AED until the arrival of paramedics. The woman did not survive but the immediate action and intervention of Beck and Martin increased her chance of survival.

Detective Phillip Schaper was presented with a Venerable Order of the Knights of Michael the Archangel Award. In March 2016, Schaper became a school resource officer for Springfield Local Schools upon the retirement of a predecessor. His certification and other SRO duties were balanced with his caseload as a detective as well as a member of the Mahoning County Drug Task Force and homicide investigator.

Patrolman James Lewis earned the John Edgar Hoover Memorial Award for bearing many responsibilities in professionalizing the police department. Lewis created a department Facebook account, pursued training and earned certification in firearms instruction in all levels, taser, ASP and OC Spray instructing, and became a new member of the U.S. Marshall Violent Fugitive Task Force.

An Honor Award for Public Service was bestowed to New Middletown Mayor Harry Kale for his support of the police department, recognizing his open-door policy with department officials to express concerns, direction or any matters within the department.

LAWYERS

Zach White, son of Byron and Kathy White of Berlin Center, recently graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School.

He is a 2009 graduate of Western Reserve High School and graduated summa cum laude from Youngstown State University in 2013.

While in law school, White worked for the U.S. Air Force as a summer law clerk in Washington, D.C., and for a law firm in Canton, which he will be joining in September.

Jeff Bruno, son of Jeff and Janice Bruno of Boardman, recently graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School with a juris doctorate degree.

Bruno is a 2008 graduate of Cardinal Mooney High School. He received his undergraduate degree with summa cum laude honors from Youngstown State University, and was a part of the university honors program.

During his time as a law student, he was student director of National Moot Court, worked as a legal extern at The National Labor Relations Board, interned at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington, D.C., and at United States Department of Justice in Minneapolis. He was awarded a Peggy Browning Fellowship at United Steelworkers International in Pittsburgh. He will be joining a law firm in Canton.

DOCTORS

Begins residency

Dr. Ryan Shields, son of A.J. and Cindy Shields of Poland, has begun his residency in opthalmology at Stanford University in California, and has completed an internship at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego.

Dr. Shields graduated from Poland High School in 2009 as valedictorian and received a bachelor’s degree in science from Youngstown State University with summa cum laude honors in 2011. He earned his doctor of medicine degree from Northeast Ohio Medical University in 2015.

Dr. Shields earned an Excellence in Microbiology Pasteur Award and Outstanding Achievement Award. He was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and Gold Humanism Honor Society.

He is the grandson of Donald and Janice Smaltz of Youngstown and Tony and Irma Shields of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Christopher Robert Becker, son of Dr. Jack and Linda Becker and Janet Einfalt, all of Liberty, recently completed fellowship training as a neurocritical-care specialist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

He is a 2002 graduate of Liberty High School, where he was enrolled in the honors program and was a member of National Honor Society. He completed pre-medicine studies at the University of Miami in 2006 and attended medical school at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, graduating in 2010.

After completing medical school, Dr. Becker completed an internal medicine internship and completed a neurology residency at SUNY downstate in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2014. Dr. Becker passed his neurology examinations and become a board-certified neurologist in 2014.

Dr. Becker married Christine Johnston of Philadelphia on April 8. The Beckers live in Allentown, Pa., where he will be working as a neurocritical intensivist physician and instructor for a neurology residency program at Lehigh Valley Hospital, and his wife will work in the neurohabilitation unit.

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