• Radiation oncologist Felicia Snead joined physicians Scot Ackerman, Ryan Perkins and Paul Ossi of First Coast Oncology. She earned her medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Following an internship in internal medicine with Beth Israel Medical Center, she completed her residency in radiation oncology at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
• On Thursday, Baptist Medical Center and Wolfson Children’s Hospital will top out the structural steel phase of the $200 million patient tower under construction at the Baptist campus on the Southbank Downtown. The final structural steel beam will be signed by Baptist Health patients, physicians, employees and volunteers and will be placed on the building at the Thursday ceremony. The 340,000-square-foot patient tower is expected to be completed in December 2012 and will provide adult and pediatric services.
• Joyce Kramzer was named chair for the 2011-12 Go Red For Women Mission of the American Heart Association. She is Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida’s senior vice president of health business operations. She and a coalition of eight other women executives will work throughout the fall and winter to bring awareness to heart disease, the No. 1 killer of women.
• Speaking of Baptist, the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce Health Council will host Baptist Health CEO Hugh Greene as its keynote speaker 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 4 at Brighton Bay Resort Style Retirement Living. Greene is this year’s chamber chair. Info: www.opportunityjacksonville.com.
• Macky Weaver, senior vice president of sales and marketing for the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL franchise, was asked this week about the possibility of Jacksonville adding a National Basketball Association team. “It would be interesting to see if it is feasible, as challenging as it is for us in a normal market to sell tickets to fill this stadium. Whoever would be looking to do that would have to take that into consideration and realize, in a market this size, to have two professional sports teams would be a difficult challenge.”
• The largest lounge in Jacksonville will undergo some changes. The Bud Zone at EverBank field will remain the same on the outside but the inside will be redecorated as the Bud Light Party Zone and renovations should be complete by the Sept. 11 Jacksonville Jaguars home opener against the Tennessee Titans.
• Circuit Judge Charles Arnold announced that he will not seek re-election in 2012. Arnold currently presides over the Tobacco Court in the Civil Division.
• The Jacksonville-based Wounded Warrior Project added two members to its board. Robb Van Cleave is the immediate past chair of the international board of directors for the Society for Human Resource Management and Justin Constantine is an attorney with the Department of Justice on counterterrorism issues and is the founder and president of Got Pride LLC, a company that serves to raise awareness of available veterans’ resources.
• The WorkSource Professional Network will explore “LinkedIn - Your Job Search Superstore” at its workshop 10:30 a.m.-noon July 28 at the Southeast Regional Public Library along Deerwood Park Boulevard. For information, call Patsy Partin at 798-9229 or email [email protected].
• Times-Union reporter David Hunt leaves the newspaper July 29 to join former colleague Abel Harding in Mayor Alvin Brown’s office. Hunt tweeted Tuesday that he will handle written communications for Brown. Harding is Brown’s communications director.
• Speaking of Brown, Harding said today that the mayor will tour Orlando with Frank Billingsly, chief of staff to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, and Brooke Bonnett, Dyer’s director of economic development. Brown will be learning how Orlando supplemented its new arena “with a booming entertainment district in the city’s core,” said Harding.
• Two engineers from the Jacksonville District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took top honors at the annual installation of officers and directors of the Jacksonville Post of the Society of American Military Engineers held at the NAS Jacksonville Officers Club. Laureen Borochaner was presented the Post Engineer of the Year award and Autumn Ziegler was named the Post Young Engineer of the Year. Borochaner is the chief of the Design Branch of the District’s Engineering Division and is temporarily the deputy chief of project execution. Ziegler is a senior electrical engineer and the engineering technical lead on the Picayune Strand, an Everglades restoration project.