Folks about town
Barbara Willm
Pat Conroy and Jonathan Green have been awarded with the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards for the Arts’ Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Barbara Willm, Gene Rountree, Tiffanny Harrison, and Dr. Frank Vail have been elected as new board officers for Midlands Regional Education Center.
Michelle Buckler Gee, M.D.; Kanakasabai Narasimhan, M.D., FACP; Chinh Ngo, D.O.; Caleb Wheeler, M.D., FAAP; Bruce Goeckeritz, M.D., FACR, CCD; Dr. Rachel Callis Wolfe; Alan Peterson Jr., M.D.; Paul Plante, M.D.; Joseph Cavanagh, M.D.; Jeffery Ford, M.D.; Nehal Desai, M.D.; Jaiprakash Patel, M.D.; and G. Stuart Hooks, M.D. have joined the Lexington Medical Center’s network of care.
Michelle Buckler Gee, M.D.
Dr. Kwame Dawes has won a News & Documentary Emmy Award for his Webbased project, “Hope: Living & Loving with HIV in Jamaica.”
City Center Partnership has received an Award of Distinction from The International Downtown Association (IDA) for their 2009 Urban Tour.
Mashburn Construction Company, Inc. has been awarded of the 2009 Mayor’s Corporate Citizen Award by Mayor Bob Coble. Joanie Thresher has been hired as center director for the new USO South Carolina center at Columbia Metropolitan Airport. Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn has been named this year’s recipient of the “Employer of the Year” award from the Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment Service.
Kanakasabai Narasimhan, M.D., FACP
Caleb Wheeler, M.D., FAAP
Chinh Ngo, D.O.
(l–r) Standing in the back – Stuart Hooks, M.D.; Jaiprakash Patel, M.D.; Jeffery Ford, M.D.; Nehal Desai, M.D.; Seated – Alan Peterson Jr., M.D.; Joseph Cavanagh, Jr., M.D.; and Paul Plante, M.D.










