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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.

Aubrey Chance was born at 10 a.m. Sunday in Avon—on Oct. 10, 2010. The 10/10/10 birth, which took place at Clarian West Medical Center, was unique enough, but the 10s don’t stop there. The hospital is on 10th Street and the baby’s room number is 10.

A flight attendant was arrested Sunday night at Indianapolis International Airport after police said she tried to smuggle cocaine onto a flight. Floydrina Williams, 39, was scheduled to work on a U.S. Airways flight from Indianapolis to Charlotte, N.C., but a full-body scan at a security checkpoint detected plastic bags strapped to her midsection. Police found 22 grams of cocaine in nine plastic bags.

Indianapolis police are searching for a driver who struck a pregnant woman and sped away from the scene late Monday night. Maria Isabell Benetez-Acateco, 24, was crossing the intersection of Maryland Street and Elder Avenue when she was struck by a pickup truck. The truck dragged her about 100 feet before the driver got out and pulled her from underneath. He then drove away, leaving her in the middle of the road. Medics rushed Benetez-Acateco, who was nine months pregnant, to the hospital, where the baby was born via an emergency Caesarean section. Both mother and child are expected to survive. Police believe they know the identity of the driver.