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Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC hired three new associate attorneys in its Indianapolis office. Geoffrey Davis focuses his litigation practice in defending physicians, hospitals and dentists.  He graduated from Butler University in 1999 and earned his law degree from the University of Toledo in 2005. Katie Miller focuses on corporate deals, physician integration and intellectual property issues. She graduated from Purdue University in 2008 and from the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis in 2011. Chad Wilson, a licensed physical therapist, focuses on hospital and physician contracts. He received all his degrees from Indiana University.

Dr. Ryan R. Lacy has established a practice with Martinsville Family & Internal Medicine with St. Francis Medical Group, the second physician in St. Francis’ new Martinsville medical office. Lacy holds a bachelor’s in biology and a master’s in physiology, both from IUPUI. He did his medical training at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Dr. Jeff Sperring, chief medical officer of Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, has been named the hospital’s president and CEO. Riley was left with a sudden leadership vacuum in late spring after CEO Dan Fink resigned, followed three weeks later by the departure of Chief Operating Officer Brett Lee to another hospital. Since then, Riley’s chief nursing officer, Marilyn Cox, has been serving as interim CEO. She will return to her role in nursing administration. Sperring graduated from Emory University in Atlanta and did his medical training at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn.