White Plains Hospital names CFO
David Ho was recently named senior vice president and chief financial officer of White Plains Hospital. Ho will lead and oversee all financial operations of the 292-bed hospital and its satellite facilities.
His career spans more than 30 years in managing and overseeing the financial operations of large health care institutions. He comes to White Plains Hospital from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn where he served as CFO for hospital finance for the past two years. Prior to that, he was the associate vice dean of finance and CFO at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Previously he spent a dozen years at the University of Chicago Medical Center and before that he spent 14 years at NYU Medical Center in various financial planning positions.
“We are delighted to welcome David Ho into the White Plains Hospital family,” said Susan Fox, hospital president. “The breadth of his experience in hospital finance is highly impressive and we are very fortunate to be able to take advantage of his extensive expertise in this continually evolving health care landscape.”
Ho received a bachelor”™s degree in economics from Cornell University and an MBA in health care management from Baruch College and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He later completed a certificate program in business management and leadership at the University of Chicago Booth School Of Business. Ho began his career as a revenue analyst at the New York City Office of Management and Budget in the early 1980s.
Summa joins The Westchester Bank
Lisa Summa has joined The Westchester Bank as vice president, branch manager of its headquarters at 2001 Central Ave. in Yonkers.
“Having lived in Westchester my entire life, I have a real appreciation of the community and the wonderful people who live here,” Summa said. “That”™s at the core of how The Westchester Bank operates and what attracted me to them in the first place. As the leading local bank in Westchester, they understand the business community and share the same passion for the highest level of personal customer service. When you put your customers”™ needs first, only good things can happen from there,” she said.
Prior to joining The Westchester Bank, Summa served as the branch manager at Capital One Bank in Eastchester. Before that, she was branch manager of its Rye location and served as president of the Rye Chamber of Commerce. Summa began her banking career more than 12 years ago at North Fork Bank in Fleetwood.
John M. Tolomer, bank president and CEO, said, “I”™m thrilled to have Lisa join The Westchester Bank. Her experience and passion for superior customer service embodies our operating principal of ”˜Business Banking Made Personal.”™”
Dorothy Jensen Realty expands
Dorothy Botsoe, a licensed real estate broker with Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors, has opened a new office in North White Plains. In her 25-year career, she has collected listings throughout Westchester County as well as Rockland County.
“I want to help first-time homebuyers. My goal is to build a team,” said Botsoe, whose firm is Dorothy Jensen Realty. “I plan to hire agents and expect to have even more longevity in this business. I have a solid business plan, but most importantly, my business will thrive because of relationships. ”¦ Real estate has given me flexibility and it has given me control of my time and allowed me to manage a business.”™”
Botsoe has been recognized by the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors Inc. as 2012 Realtor of the Year and before that the New York State Women”™s Council of Realtors honored her as Realtor of the Year.
Mercy College professor to participate in seminar
Jude Aguwa, professor of humanities and religion at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, has been selected from a nationwide pool of nominees to participate in a faculty seminar on the teaching of interfaith understanding. The seminar is offered by the Council of Independent Colleges and Interfaith Youth Core, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation.
Twenty-five faculty members will participate in the seminar that takes place June 15-19 at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. The seminar will be led by Catherine Cornille, Newton College Alumnae Chair of Western Culture, chairwoman of the department of theology and professor of comparative theology at Boston College, and Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University.
New managing partner of Cuddy & Feder
Joshua E. Kimerling has been named managing partner of Cuddy & Feder L.L.P., a 43-year old law firm with offices in White Plains, Manhattan, Fishkill and Stamford, Conn. He has served as vice chairman of the firm”™s litigation department and as a member of the management committee. Kimerling succeeds William S. Null, who has stepped down from the managing partner position after a 14-year period in which the firm expanded farther into New York”™s Hudson Valley, southern Connecticut and other parts of the tristate area. Null will continue representing a growing client base in the firm”™s land use department.
A resident of Dobbs Ferry, Kimerling began his career at Cuddy & Feder in 1994 as an associate in the firm”™s litigation department and was elected to the partnership in 2001.
The new management committee includes land use and zoning partner Anthony B. Gioffre III and real estate and transactional partner Michael L. Katz.
Cuddy & Feder was founded in 1971 by real estate attorney Robert Feder and Judge William Cuddy of White Plains.
Author speaks at Hadassah meeting
The Bristal of White Plains hosted The Westchester Region of Hadassah for a Jewish Book Council of New York sponsored event. Author of several books, Joanna Hershon was the guest speaker. Her books include “The Outside of August,” “The German Bride,” and her most recent, “A Dual Inheritance,” which is described as a big book “about politics, social customs and family dynamics.” This novel was the subject of her address to the group of attendees. Hershon is a member of the Jewish Book Council.
Jan Mar recognized by trade group
Jan Mar Trophy Co. Inc. of New Rochelle was recently named the 2013”“2014 Small Business Retailer of the Year by the Awards and Recognition Association (ARA). Owned by husband and wife Mario and Janet Scarano, the company was profiled in the May issue of “Recognition Review,” ARA”™s magazine.
An international organization of thousands of retailers and suppliers of trophies, awards and other recognition products, the annual awards, presented at the ARA International Awards Market in Las Vegas, recognize outstanding members. The Scaranos”™ company was evaluated by supplier members to earn the honor.
Jan Mar Trophy Co. has been in business for 33 years. As reported in ARA magazine, Janet Scarano said, “This award is such a thrill for us, it”™s our Oscar.” And Mario said, “People say we spend too much time with customers, but that customer tells others what a nice shop we have and how friendly we are. It pays us back tenfold.”
Colleges partner on science fellowship
Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, University of Massachusetts at Boston and Montclair State University in New Jersey have become the Greater New York partners of the Wipro Science Education Fellowship. Amanda Gunning and Meghan Marrero, of the Mercy College School of Education, were awarded the $1.19 million grant to lead the Greater New York Wipro Science Education Fellowship (SEF).
Wipro is an international information technology company that is based in India serving more than 61 countries. Because of its extensive work in the United States, the company sought to fund science education innovation projects here. Arthur Eisenkraft of the University of Massachusetts originally earned the funding to run the SEF in a one-year program with Boston teachers. It has now grown to a two-year program in three states.
The SEF supports three cohorts of 20 science teacher fellows from five local districts during a two-year fellowship that focuses on leadership in science education. The goal is to keep good teachers in the classroom and develop their leadership skills in the classroom as opposed to putting them in administrative roles.
Testing available for those with dizziness
Phelps Memorial Hospital Center has recently established the Phelps Balance Center to offer comprehensive testing and rehabilitation for individuals who have problems with dizziness and imbalance.
Balance problems are among the most common reasons adults seek help from a physician. Early preventive measure, particularly balance therapy, can reduce the risk of falls and help promote independence. Without preventive efforts, about one third of people aged 65 or older typically fall once or more each year.
For more information, call 914-366-1170.
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