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" • Four Work Link certified as an Hospital ~ciation's SOCiety for Health 'his surgical residency training at the Stegall, Pat Reed and Quincy Berry
staff members re­ emergency med­ Care Marketing &Public Relations. She UnivelSity..QLMississip.!1.iJ1edical Cen· • 10 years: James Hodges, Charles
cently received a ical technician, a will serve in that role until November ter. Gilmore, Shane Bates, Jacqueline
Certificate of Com­ certified hearing 2010. He is clinical associate professor of Chandler, Tom Jackson, Mitchel
petency in Occupa­ conservationist She has been employed by NMMC surgery at the University of Mississippi Earnest, Stephen Funderburk, Renae
tional Health Prac­ and a certified since 1990. ­ Medical Center. He alSo is a surgical Hughes and Jerry Thomas
tice Management: forklift trainer. review physician for the Mississippi • Five years: Brad Kuykendall,
Dr. Dee Dee Coker, Javed joined • Karen Yelverton hasjoined the uni­ Foundation for Medical Care and Scott Click, Ronnie Chandler, Linda
WOrk Link medical COKER
Work Link staff in
JAVED
velSity development team to seek pri­ serves as co·director of trauma service McCollum and David Dodd
director; Barbara
February. She com­ vate funds for the UnivelSity of Missis­ for NMMC.
Hamilton, office
pleted her medical sippi's School of Business Administra· Pigott is board certified by the • Douglas M. Wright Jr., the owner
manager; Dj', Hazla
studies at King Ed­ tion. American Board of Surgery. and CEO of aTupelo-based health
Javed;.and Aarthur
ward University in Yelverton earned a bachelor's degree care business, has been added to the
Rodgers.
Pakistan, and her in political sc"ience and a master's de· • Cooper Tire and Rubber an· 2010 board of directolS for the Better
Certification is
family medicine gree in higher education from Ole Miss. nounced its December service anniver­ Business Bureau of Mississippi. ,-­
earned through the
residency at sary awards at its Tupelo plant Wrighfowns 25 health care busi­
National Associa·
Phoenix Baptist • Dr. Charles Pigott, who practices at • 25 years: Joel Bailey, Hursey nesses in Mississippi and western Ten­
tion of OCGupation­
Hospital. the surgeryCiliiic Willingham, David Gladney, Phil Walls, nessee, including skilled nursing
al HealtflProfes-
HAMILIDN RodgelS received RODGERS ofTupelo, was reo Art Palmer, Wayne Weaver, Raymond homes, retail pharmacies, a closed­
sionals, who pro­ his nUlSing degree cently elected Fells, Thomas Pearson, Mark McMillen, door institutional pharmacy and a full­
vide the training and testing.
and family nUlSe practitioner training from chairman of the Joe Munn and Paul Rajacich service therapy company. His compa­
Coker joined the Work Link staff in Mississippi UnivelSity for Women in Colum­ North MisSissippi • 20 years: Kenneth Robertson, nies include Community Eldercare Ser­
January. She received her bachelor's bus. ­ MediCaf Center Terry McMickin, Mike Franks,Todd vices.
degree from Mississippi State University medical-staff for Rakestraw, Anthony Malone, Cynthia . Wright hasserved in the health
and her medical training from Kansas • Marsha Tap- " 2010. Northington, Terry Tyes, Brenda Cruse, care industry since 1992 in various
City University of Medicine and Bio­ scott, director of Pigott earned a lonny Bullock, Teddy Bridges, Ricky capacities as general counsel, chief fi·
sciences. She completed her family North Mississippi bachelor's degree PIGOTI
Blissard, Elisha Sullivan, Jimmy nancial officer and chief executive of­
medicine residency at the North Missis­ Medicalj&nter's in chemistry and Ridling, David Jones, Larry Garrison, ficer.
sippi Medical Center Family Medicine marketing depart· " biology from Delta State University Jeff Worthey, Donald Little, Gary Allen Prior to full-time involvement in the
Residency Center. ment, was recently and completed his medical training at and Jackie Sneed health care industry, Wright practiced
Hamilton has been employed at named president the University of Mississippi School of • 15 years: Frank Swader, Randy law in his hometown ofTupelo.
Work Link since June 2007. She is also of the Mississippi Medicine in Jackson. He completed
TAPSCOTT
• Clndl Barksdale has been promot­
'''O~"
ed to vice president of sales and mar­
keting of Franklin Collection Service
I Inc.

I She has been a member of

"\ Franklin's sales team sillceApril1998.

• In other Franklin Collection Ser­

vice news, Bob Ballard was named
Employee of the Year for 2009. A
member of the collection team, Bal-'
lard has worked at Franklin.for seven
years.

• Joseph B. Babb, CPA, has success­

fully completedilhe"Certification
process with t"e National Association
of Certified Valuation Analysts to earn
his designation of
" celtified valuation
analyst.
Babb works in
the Tupelo office of
Eaton, Babb &
Smith, a regional
accounting and
; professional servic·
, es firm . He gradu· BASB
: ated in 2005 with a
Master ofTaxation from Mississippi
State University. He finished his under­
graduate work at MSU, graduating
summa cum laude in 2004 with a
. Bachelor of Accountancy.
Babb worked in the tax department
of Deloitte and Touche in Memphis be·
fore relocating to Tupelo.