Newsmakers Fairfield County 3-18-13

Lee Reynolds Crouch was recently named director of development CT Challenge. She brings expertise from a 30-year sales and marketing career in health care and financial services.

CT Challenge is a nonprofit public charity that provides wellness programs for cancer survivors and their loved ones at the CT Challenge Center for Survivorship in Fairfield, and helps to fund unique survivorship programs at hospitals throughout Connecticut that are members of the CT Challenge Survivorship Network.

Dr. Linda S. Ellis, of Milford, was recently appointed to the founding faculty of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University.

As associate professor of medical sciences, Ellis will be responsible for teaching pathology, anatomy, histology and pathophysiology of disease, as well as health law and ethics, at the new medical school, which is scheduled to begin classes this fall. Ellis also will co-direct the school”™s capstone concentration in health law and policy with John Thomas, a professor in the Quinnipiac University School of Law.

She has a medical degree and completed her post-doctoral residency training in the department of pathology and anatomical sciences at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Most recently, Ellis completed a master”™s of jurisprudence degree in health law at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

 

Keith McAllister of Riverside was recently elected to AmeriCares”™ board of directors. He also serves as chairman of the AmeriCares media advisory committee.

A principal in media consulting firm Upside Strategies, McAllister previously served as executive vice president and managing editor at CNN, where he was responsible for all U.S. news-gathering operations, as general manager of consumer media and global online editor for Thomson Reuters, and as CEO of web-based advertising content provider Mochila.