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Indianapolis Public Schools has fired a bus driver and is recommending termination of a bus attendant after they left 4-year-old Javion Lewis, who has autism, unattended on a bus for more than two hours Tuesday. The driver picked the boy up at his daycare center but failed to drop him off as scheduled at IPS School 44. The boy didn’t get off the bus because he fell asleep. The child was found hours later, still on the vehicle at the bus depot.

A New Whiteland police officer and two Johnson County sheriff's deputies were injured overnight while trying to chase down a 19-year-old suspected of drunk driving. All three were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police say Brent Hall was arrested with a blood alcohol level of 0.17, more than twice the legal limit. At least four cars and a utility pole were damaged in the pursuit, which involved speeds topping 140 mph. Fox59 will have more at 4 p.m.

Dr. Maryellen E. Gusic is the new executive associate dean for educational affairs at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In that role, she will be responsible for the creation, coordination and implementation of all major education programs at Indiana's only medical school. Gusic most recently served as associate dean for clinical education at Penn State College of Medicine.

Dr. Luis Romero has joined the St. Vincent Physician Network in Zionsville as a family physician. He earned his medical degree in Colombia and was later chief resident at the Indiana University-Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Indianapolis.

The Indiana Health Care Association has hired Zach Cattell as general counsel and director of business and member services. Cattell comes to the nursing home trade group from the Baker & Daniels law firm. Before that, he was a lobbyist for the Indiana State Medical Association, the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians and the Indiana State Department of Health.

Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. appointed Lori Beer, its chief information officer, as executive vice president of a newly formed business unit called enterprise business services.

Indiana University appointed Dr. Craig Brater, dean of the IU School of Medicine, to the additional position of vice president of university clinical affairs. The extra  role will have Brater chair a committee of the deans of IU’s schools for medicine, dentistry, optometry and health sciences, as well as coordinate any clinical interactions IU has with its hospital partners: Clarian Health, Wishard Health Services and the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

There’s a leadership change in progress at Prosolia Inc., an Indianapolis company launched out of Purdue University in 2004. Veteran life sciences entrepreneur Peter Kissinger has stepped down as interim CEO and will be replaced by Prosolia’s research director, Justin Wiseman. Wiseman also will fill the role of president, which was vacated by the recent departure of Kevin Boscacci. The company said Boscacci, who helped launched Prosolia as an MBA student at Purdue, left “to pursue other opportunities.” Prosolia’s technology helps measure mass and therefore identify large, complex molecules for pharmaceutical and other industries.

California-based life sciences firm Beckman Coulter Inc. is planning its third local expansion since 2007, investing $18.2 million in its Indianapolis operation and adding as many as 95 jobs here in the next three years. Beckman Coulter, which makes biomedical testing equipment, plans to begin hiring manufacturing associates immediately for its facilities at 5355 W. 76th St. and 5550 Lakeview Parkway. It also will add employees in field service, engineering and general business roles.

Purdue University and Bloomington-based Cook Biotech Inc. prevailed in a European patent dispute over a tissue graft. Denmark-based ScanVet, which distributes the Acell Vet graft, has now run out of time to appeal previous decisions in favor of Purdue by the Danish patent office and patent appeals board. The patent lies behind some of the Cook Biotech products manufactured at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette. The grafts are used to heal wounds and as implants in surgical procedures.

Centerstone Research Institute in Bloomington won a four-year, $2 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The grant will fund improved health care services for 250 adults who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness by expanding primary health care and Centerstone of Indiana’s Bloomington clinic. The project is designed to give individuals who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness broader access to a team of primary care doctors and nurses, as well as mental health staff.