Stephen Stitle, the former chairman for PNC Bank in Indiana, will serve as SmithAmundsen's Indiana managing partner. John Tanselle, one of the city's top banking lawyers, will be a partner in its financial services group.
In one fell swoop, the law firm more than doubled the size of its intellectual property team with the additions it scored from Krieg DeVault. The move could bring as much as $10 million in annual revenue to Taft.
Krieg DeVault LLP has elected four new members to its leadership team following the appointment of Deborah J. Daniels as managing partner in November.
Deborah Daniels will succeed Michael E. Williams, who had led the Indianapolis law firm for more than two decades.
Partner Deborah J. Daniels becomes the law firm’s new leader effective Jan. 1. She will succeed Michael E. Williams, who helped grow the firm from about 35 to 130 attorneys.
Thomas Mooney has been appointed CEO of Methodist Sports Medicine, overseeing three locations in Avon, Carmel and Greenwood. According to his LinkedIn profile, Mooney was most recently CEO of an orthopedic physician practice in central Pennsylvania. Mooney holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Towson State University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
Bob Wade, a health care attorney at Indianapolis law firm Krieg DeVault LLP, was named the compliance expert to the board of Halifax Health in Daytona Beach, Fla. The hospital system agreed to an $85 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over alleged illegal contracts with doctors that violated the federal Stark statutes. Wade, an expert in the Stark laws, will help the hospital rewrite its contracts with physicians and establish a compliance program.
My law partner and longtime friend Joe Russell died suddenly at age 63 in July. Such a stunning event unleashes introspection: How could this happen to someone so young? How likely is it that I’ll keel over in the next year? Time to start planning vacations NOW.
Michael Becher, a longtime managing partner of Deloitte LLP’s Indianapolis office, has joined the Krieg DeVault LLP law firm as an adviser.
Mark Morrell recently joined Krieg DeVault LLP’s health care practice in Indianapolis. He will concentrate his practice on mergers and acquisitions, managed care negotiations, finance and other corporate legal matters. Morrell was previously an attorney at Hancock Daniel Johnson & Nagle PC in Virginia. An Indianpaolis native, Morrell received a bachelor’s degree from Ball State University and did his legal training at Regent University School of Law.
State Rep. Cynthia Kirchhofer, R-Beech Grove, has been appointed risk analyst at Franciscan St. Francis Health. She will manage medical claims and cases, and oversee a program to reduce threats to hospital assets and resources. Kirchhofer joined Franciscan in 2004 after working for several law firms. She holds a paralegal certificate from IUPUI.
Douglas M. Gioe, corporate compliance and privacy officer for Franciscan St. Francis Health, will retire from his position June 20. Before coming to Franciscan St. Francis, Gioe was risk manager and quality assurance coordinator for the former Central State Hospital in Indianapolis.
Boom in elderly population and falling reimbursements expected to cause squeeze.
Stephen A. Stitle will leave the bank to come aboard the law firm as a partner on May 1. Stitle has spent a combined 17 years at PNC and National City Bank, which PNC purchased in 2008.
Dr. Paul Haut has been appointed chief medical officer of Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health. Haut previously served as director of the Riley stem cell transplant program at IU Health. Haut is also a professor of pediatrics at the IU School of Medicine. Haut replaces Dr. Jeff Sperring, who was promoted by Riley Hospital’s CEO in November. Haut holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and did his medical training at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Meghan Linvill McNab has joined the health care practice of Krieg DeVault LLP. She will practice in the area of Medicare and Medicaid program reimbursement.
Sarah Jenkins has joined St. Vincent Neuroscience Institute as a health psychologist for adult patients. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and her doctorate from Ball State University in Muncie.
When Matthew Conrad, 33, and his wife, Nicole, married in 2008, they already had more than enough toasters, microwaves and other household items. Instead of registering for china and silver, they formed a not-for-profit group, Love Without Boundaries, to combat poverty and social injustice.
Now a partner at Krieg DeVault LLP, herwork in homeland security led to her involvement in the nation’s response to 9/11. She also has helped lead many of the city’s most important charities.
Dr. Richard Rhodes will be installed as the 138th president of the Indianapolis Medical Society on Oct. 4. Rhodes is a pulmonologist at Community Health Network.
Indianapolis law firm Krieg DeVault LLP named Zach Cattell to an “of counsel” position with its health care practice group. Cattell is general counsel of the Indiana Health Care Association, which represents for-profit nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
Westfield Steel owners Karyn and Fred Prine are well on the way to transitioning to the next generation—son Fritz—thanks to timely planning.
Improved economy boosts prospects, modestly, for new grads.
Indianapolis-based Krieg DeVault LLP hired Jason D. Schultz as an associate in its health care practice, working from the firm’s office in Mishawaka. Schultz focuses on transactions and compliance for hospitals, physician groups, mental health facilities, radiology facilities and medical device manufacturers. He previously worked for Indianapolis-based Baker & Daniels LLP.
Indiana University Health named Dr. Douglas Schwartzentruber medical director of cancer services and associate director for clinical affairs at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis. Schwartzentruber, a surgical oncologist, most recently was medical director of cancer care at IU Health’s hospital in Goshen. Last year he was named to Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world for his research showing potential for a vaccine therapy to treat cancer. He is a graduate of the IU School of Medicine and a former research investigator at the National Cancer Institute.
IU Health hired James G. Terwilliger as vice president of cancer services for its statewide network of hospitals. Most recently, Terwilliger served as executive vice president of cancer centers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Terwilliger holds a bachelors degree from Boston University and a masters of public health from the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Indiana Health Information Exchange named Jim Hill vice president of sales. Previously, Hill was CEO of his own software company, Achievant, which provided human capital-management services. Hill holds a bachelor's degree from IU and an MBA in marketing from Butler University.
Community Heart and Vascular added Dr. Jo Mahenthiran as its 12th physician. Mahenthiran specializes in non-invasive cardiology and cardiac imaging. Most recently, he was an associate professor of clinical medicine and the director of cardiac imaging at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology at Indiana University. The practice is part of Indianapolis-based Community Health Network.
Robert Wade has joined Indianapolis-based Krieg DeVault LLP’s health care practice as a partner in the law firm’s Mishawaka office. His practice concentrates on hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, physician groups, physicians and other medical providers. Wade is the creator of Captain Integrity, www.captainintegrity.com, a compliance program resource used by many hospitals, health systems and other providers.
Dr. Paul E. Driscoll has been selected as medical director for St. Francis Medical Group after serving in that position on an interim basis for several months. A family physician, Driscoll will continue to oversee clinical operations of the 140-member physician group, which is owned by Franciscan St. Francis Health. Driscoll is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Harold Berfiend has been named chief operating officer of Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital. Berfiend is a former controller for IU Health, when it was called Clarian Health. He came to Ball Memorial as chief financial officer after Clarian acquired the Muncie hospital in 2008.
Indianapolis-based SonarMed Inc. has named William DeMars its vice president of sales and marketing. DeMars will orchestrate the 2011 U.S. market launch of SonarMed’s Airwave system, which monitors breathing tubes for patients requiring ventilators. DeMars was previously the vice president of business development for Minnesota-based Ashmak, a medical consultancy.
Banks across Indiana are preparing for a deluge of new regulations that will cut into their bottom lines, make their businesses more complex and, in some cases, force them to consolidate.
