BUSINESS PERSONNEL

Joy Smith of Scott City has joined the full-time staff of Visiting Nurse Association at the Cape Girardeau office.

Smith has worked out of the VNA office at Sikeston.

She previously worked at Missouri Delta Medical Center's telemetry unit.

Smith attended the practical nurse program through Sikeston Health Occupation and received her registered nurse's license at Park College in Sikeston. She plans to pursue her bachelor's degree in nursing at Park College when that program starts in the fall of 1998.

Barbara Brock of Elite Travel Inc. has returned from a familiarization tour of the recently opened Moon Palace Resort in Cancun, Mexico.

She also visited the Mayan Ruins of the Chichen Itza, an ecological park at Xcaret, which included floating an underground river.

Mary Stucker, group sales director of the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitor Bureau, has participated in the Missouri Travel Council's marketing blitz.

"Missouri on the Move" was the theme of the MTC's marketing blitz.

Stucker spoke with group travel operations and leaders at Mobile, Ala., Memphis, Tenn., and other areas, encouraging them to send their motor coach business to the Cape Girardeau area and "EsCape to Cape" during the 1998 marketing season.

The CVB promotes tourism, conventions and other related activities and program for the economic development of the city.

Brian T. Flynn has been named chief executive officer at Lucy Lee Healthcare System at Poplar Bluff.

Flynn's appointment was announced last week by Tenet Healthcare Corp.

Flynn, who will officially assume his new duties May 19, is a native of Kansas City. He holds the position of CEO at Tenet's Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma, Tenn., and Medical Center of Manchester in Manchester, Tenn.

Flynn is a graduate of Union College in Lincoln with a bachelor's degree in business administration, and holds a master's degree in marketing from the University of Denver.

Eugene "Gene" Kemper of Cape Girardeau and Cathy Warren of Miller City, Ill., have been honored as 1996 "Associates of the Year" at Cape Girardeau Schnucks Markets Inc. stores.

Kemper is assistant produce manager at Schnucks Food & Drug, 19 S. Kingshighway. He joined the company in 1992.

Warren joined Schnucks last year as a checker at the Schnucks Midtown Store, 121 S. Sprigg.

Schnuck Markets Inc. was founded in 1939. It operates 94 stores in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Indiana.

Dr. Robert F. Sacha of Cape Girardeau has been promoted to associate clinical professor of pediatrics in the field of allergy and immunology at St. Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Sacha, adult and pediatric allergy, asthma and clinical immunology physician at 8 Doctors' Park, is on the teaching staff of St. Louis University and Southern Illinois School of Medicine at Carbondale.

Ophthalmologist Richard L. Kies of Cape Girardeau has received board recertification in the subspecialty field of cataract/implant surgery by the American Board of Eye Surgery.

To gain board recertification Kies was required to submit a detailed record of 50 consecutive cataract/implant surgical procedures. Kies' surgical skills and knowledge were evaluated by ABES, including an on-site observance of three consecutive surgical procedures.

Kies joins 350 other physicians who have achieved certification and/or recertification in cataract/implant surgery since the ABES program started in 1989.,

Dr. Fred E. Rawlins of Cape Girardeau has attended the Eastern Regional Obesity Course sponsored by the American Society of Bariatric Physicians at New Orleans.

Rawlins is a member of the ASBP, a non-profit professional association of physicians who have a special interest in the study and treatment of obesity and other eating disorders.

Rawlins' office is at 213 N. Sprigg.

A number of Cape Girardeau area physicians and alliance members have attended the Missouri State Medical Association's annual convention at the Westin Crown Center in Kansas City.

Physicians who attended were Drs. Jean A. Chapman, Michael R. Freeman, Ted J. Glenn, Chris Jung, Mark Kasten, Melvin Kasten, Richard Martin, Edwin J. Masters, Walter A. Schroeder Jr., and Thomas Sparkman.

Local alliance members attending were Nona Nan Chapman, Ann Glenn, Lois Kasten and Carol Sparkman.

More than 1,000 physicians and 20 medical specialists attended the four-day program, which included presentations on antitrust, physician integration and managed care. Physicians earned continuing medical education credit hours for the American Medical Association's Physician Recognition Award for participating in scientific medical programs.

David Willis, an investment broker with A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc., 97 N. Kingshighway, has completed a two-day insurance seminar at Boston.

The workshop, sponsored by Hartford Life, Manulife, First Penn-Pacific and G.E. Capital Assurance, enabled Willis to become familiar with a variety of insurance opportunities available through A.G. Edwards.

Willis has been an investment broker for five years. A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc., established in Cape Girardeau in 1986, has 10 investment brokers serving the areas.

Martha Hamilton and Liz Abernathy of Coldwell Banker Hamilton Realty have attended the Coldwell Banker International Business Conference in Dallas.

Abernathy was honored as a member of the International Presidents' Elite. To qualify, Abernathy had more than 60 closed transactions in 1996. Only 1 percent of Coldwell Banker's more than 55,000 associates receive this honor.

New programs from Coldwell Banker training seminars and the Coldwell Banker on-line were presented during the conference.

Pattie Ammon, physical therapist, of Jackson Physical Therapy, has received the "Outstanding Service Award" for patient care from the Missouri Physical Therapy Association.

Ammon, an owner of Jackson Physical Therapy, has been in the physical therapy profession for 16 years.

The award was presented by Tom Hooper, chairman of the Southeast District of the MPTA.

Chad Mace of Cape Girardeau received a first place in the category of "Best Aircheck," from the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association, during its spring meeting.,

Mace, a junior at Southeast Missouri State University, is employed with the Zimmer Radio Group.

Cheral Benthal has joined DJ's Beauty Salon at 1020 N. Kingshighway.

Benthal has six years of experience in cosmetology. She previously worked at Hair Force Salon.

John E. Campbell is leaving Kerber, Eck and Braeckel LLP, Certified Public Accountants after more than 25 years with the firm, to seek other career options.

Campbell joined the company in 1974 when the firm opened the Cape Girardeau office. He has been a partner in the firm since 1979.

Campbell will remain available to clients of the firm to provide for a systematic transition of services.

Kerber, Eck & Braeckel is a full-service regional firm, with Missouri offices in St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Illinois offices at Springfield, Belleville and Carbondale, and at Milwaukee.