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FINANCIAL FRONT

Stevens

Bank of Botetourt has announced that R. Scott Stevens has joined the Bank as Vice President - Commercial and Agricultural Loan Officer. Scott most recently was a loan officer with Farm Credit of the Virginias. Prior to that, he was the General Manager for Rockingham Cooperative, previously known as Southern States, where he oversaw in-store financing for more than 25 years.

Three experienced financial services professionals have joined Pinnacle Financial Partners’ Campbell Avenue and Salem offices. Financial advisor assistant Mikki Barranco and financial

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Boyd

Stallard

specialist Amber Boyd have joined the Campbell Avenue office, along with financial specialist Helen Stallard, who joined Pinnacle’s office in Salem. Barranco brings 10 years of financial services experience and comes to Pinnacle from First Bank & Trust Company. Boyd has nine years of experience, most recently at Wells Fargo, where she served as ADCC sig fraud financial crimes analyst. Stallard joins Pinnacle from InFirst/FedStar Federal Credit Union, where she was a senior loan officer.

EDUCATIONAL FRONT

Wolfe

Roanoke College has selected a new dean of the college: Dr. Kathy J. Wolfe has been named vice president of academic affairs and dean of the college. Wolfe has 28 years of teaching experience and 12 years in administrative leadership roles, most recently as dean of engaged education at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She has worked in private and public liberal arts institutions, community colleges and the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Wolfe will assume the dean's position in July, replacing Dr. Richard Smith, who retired in the summer of 2021 after 12 years in the position.

WELLNESS FRONT

Fabian

HCA Virginia has named Alan Fabian, who was the chief executive officer of LewisGale Hospital Montgomery, to lead the LewisGale Regional Health System as market president and LewisGale Medical Center (Salem) chief executive officer.

Fabian has been with HCA Healthcare since 1995. Outgoing market president Lance Jones has resigned and is pursuing a career outside of the acute care industry, according to a LewisGale spokesman.

Friendship Retirement Community announces the promotion of Tashina Adams from Assistant Director of Nursing to Director of Nursing of Friendship Health & Rehab Center on Hershberger Road. Adams joined the Friendship team in 2018 as the Assistant Director of Nursing for Friendship Health & Rehab Center. She has been a nurse for 22 years, serving in leadership roles across the Roanoke Valley in both the acute care and the post-acute long-term care settings.

LewisGale Medical Center in Salem has named Amy Woods as chief nursing officer for the 506-bed acute-care medical and surgical facility. Woods began her career as an operating room staff nurse at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery and progressed forward in leadership roles

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Woods including director of surgical services, assistant chief nursing officer of LewisGale Medical Center, and then chief nursing officer at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery in Blacksburg.

Warm Hearth Village (WHV) has welcomed Yvonne Hurt, as the new Director of Human Resources. She comes with varied experience in human resources, most recently with Meridian Bird Removal where she was the People Operations Manager. Hurt earned a B.S. in Business Management, and a master’s in management and leadership from Liberty University. MUNICIPAL FRONT

Lewis

Casey Lewis is now the Communications & Community Engagement Specialist for the City of Roanoke. She comes from a marketing role in the private sector at Fleet Feet Roanoke.

Compiled by Gene Marrano