People & Achievements in the greater Ann Arbor area, including Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn and Edwards Brothers
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Mike Huget
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Deborah Swedlow
The following is a list of achievements by businesses and individuals in the Ann Arbor area:
• Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, a business law firm based in Detroit with offices in Ann Arbor, recently announced that J. Michael Huget and Deborah Swedlow have joined the firm as partners in its Litigation Department and will be located in Honigman’s Ann Arbor office. Huget and Swedlow will also be members of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group.• Ann Arbor-based book manufacturer Edwards Brothers recently installed a new Timsons T48A ZMR one- and two-color press, giving Edwards Brothers one of the biggest fleets of Timsons presses in the country. Company officials said the press will significantly increase Edwards’ 11-inch capacity and help the company meet the needs of its professional and educational clients who have a growing demand for short- and medium-run offset book manufacturing. ZMR stands for “Zero-Make-Ready” and refers to the ability to run from one form to the next without stopping the press, resulting in minimal paper waste for one color work. There are two printing units on the web, allowing the press to continue printing while the next set of plates is installed for the next run. The two printing units will also allow the press to produce high quality two-color text printing.
• An Ann Arbor project was a winner in the third annual McGraw-Hill Construction Best of the Best Awards, a national competition that recognizes design and construction excellence. The winner in the Sports/Recreation category was the University of Michigan Football Stadium renovation and expansion, submitted by Barton Malow Co. Winners will be profiled in the Jan. 24, 2011 issue of Engineering News-Record.
• Five Butzel Long attorneys from Washtenaw County were recognized as Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit 2011 by DBusiness magazine. The attorneys and their practice areas are John C. Blattner of Ann Arbor, intellectual property law; Regan K. Dahle of Ann Arbor, civil rights law; George E. Kuehn of Ann Arbor, corporate governance and compliance law; Jordan S. Schreier of Ann Arbor, employee benefits law; and James E. Stewart of Saline, alternative dispute resolution, entertainment and sports and first amendment law.
• UnitedHealthcare recently announced a new network relationship with IHA, giving UnitedHealthcare commercial health plan customers access to care provided by IHA, the multi-specialty physician group. IHA offers nearly 200 health care providers, including 150 physicians who offer health care services in family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, imaging, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and surgery. The physician group currently serves 250,000 patients in the greater Ann Arbor area. UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group company, serves more than 580,000 Michigan residents with a health care provider network statewide of more than 14,000 physicians and 118 hospitals.
• The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, headquartered in Ann Arbor, announced in November that two of its projects have been honored with Defense Manufacturing Excellence Awards presented by the National Center for Advanced Technologies for outstanding cooperative efforts on technology development between government, industry and academia. This marks the eighth and ninth of these awards for NCMS projects. The awards were in the Collaborative Team Small Business category for "modernization of metal electroplating with no-mask conforming anodes" and the Collaborative Team Large Business category for "automated robotic blade stripping system." Both projects were done in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense.
• Nichols, Sacks, Slank, Sendelbach & Buiteweg, family law attorneys in Ann Arbor and Brighton, announced that Margo Nichols, Monika Sacks, Karen Sendelbach and Lori Buiteweg were named Michigan Super Lawyers, an annual designation earned by less than 5 percent of all attorneys statewide. Attorneys are selected through a rigorous rating process and evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Jamie O’Brien and Lindsay Nickolls were also named Rising Stars by Super Lawyers, indicating their status among the state's top 3 percent of up-and-coming attorneys.
• The Washtenaw Contractors Association will recognize the outstanding performance of firms and individuals working in the construction industry in Washtenaw County and other parts of Michigan by presenting its 2011 PYRAMID Awards on March 11, 2011. The Pyramid Awards will recognize exceptional effort in the areas of teamwork, service and innovation. Eligible projects and programs are those that were completed in calendar year 2010. The nomination process includes two steps: (1) submission of an "Intent to Nominate" form by Jan. 14, 2011 and (2) submission of the actual Nomination Package by Feb. 11, 2011. For more information, visit www.wcaonline.org. For an "intent to nominate" form, click here.
• Fair Trade USA (formerly TransFair USA), a third-party certifier of "fair trade: products in the U.S., recently announced that a full range of Fair Trade Certified clothing items are now available in the United States as part of a two-year pilot test. The label is meant to help consumers find clothing produced by cotton farmers and factory workers who earn more and have safe working conditions. Among the companies that have already received this certification is Ypsilanti-based apparel retailer Maggie's Organics.
• Ann Arbor-based ProQuest has acquired Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America product lines from LexisNexis. The acquisition includes digital products and an expansive microfilm vault that ProQuest will convert from film to searchable electronic formats. The new content extends service to ProQuest's academic base and is expected to fuel growth in government markets. CIS and UPA editorial staff members join ProQuest and will continue to be based in their Bethesda, Md. offices. Product names will remain the same but will begin to include the ProQuest brand in 2011.
• Bellanina Day Spa and Institute in Ann Arbor recently announced a new business partnership. Nina Howard, founder and president, announced that Kathryn Winkelhaus-Myers has joined the businesses as an equal partner and the new CEO. Howard, currently the CEO, will now assume the chief creative officer title as she works to develop the company’s educational offerings and product lines.
• Tom Ungrodt, owner of the Crown House of Gifts in the Traver Village Shopping Center, recently announced a donation of $2,000 to the Washtenaw Association for Community Advocacy, a nonprofit that works with disabled individuals in Washtenaw County. The money was raised with a silent auction during the store’s 50th anniversary celebration in October.
• Sara Simon has been re-elected president of the board of Washtenaw Camp Placement Association (WCPA) for the coming year. Serving with her are: Margarita Garcia-Roberts, vice-president; Linda Forster, secretary; and Larry Woods, treasurer. New board members Dave McDonagh and Nichole Chaffee, both of Saline, were elected to the WCPA board at its annual meeting in October. WCPA has been sending disadvantaged Washtenaw county youth to camp since 1962.
• Martin Philbert, senior associate dean for research and professor of toxicology in the University of Michigan School of Public Health, has been appointed the new dean of SPH. President Mary Sue Coleman and Provost Phil Hanlon made the announcement in early December, pending approval by the U-M Board of Regents. The appointment is effective Jan. 1.
• The Washtenaw Intermediate School District board of education has appointed Richard F. Leyshock, formerly WISD’s assistant superintendent for student services, as WISD interim superintendent, effective Jan. 1. He assumes the responsibility from William Miller, who retires on Dec. 31. The appointment will extend through the end of the 2010-2011 school year or until the board employs a new superintendent.
Leyshock has publicly stated he is not a candidate for the superintendence since he plans to retire at the end of August. The WISD board plans to begin interviewing superintendent search firms at its Dec. 14 meeting.
• Rush-Copley Medical Center has selected a product of Ann Arbor-based Thomson Reuters, Pharmacy Xpert, to more effectively manage medication therapy and improve pharmacist efficiency. Pharmacy Xpert is a clinical intelligence dashboard that helps hospital pharmacists better manage medication therapy to improve outcomes, reduce costs, and manage risk.
• Affinia Group Inc., a business specializing in design, manufacture, distribution and marketing of industrial grade products and services headquartered in Ann Arbor, has named two directors to its board - William M. Lasky, president, CEO and chairman of Accuride Corp.; and James S. McElya, chairman and CEO of Cooper-Standard Automotive. These appointments will be effective Jan. 1, 2011.
• Ann Arbor-based Adeona Pharmaceuticals Inc., recently announced today that Dr. James S. Kuo, the company's CEO, was a featured presenter at the Medical Technology-Life Sciences Event in New York City on Dec. 7.
• University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers provide some of the safest and most effective care in the country, according to a national ranking from the Leapfrog Group. The announcement was made at the 10th anniversary meeting for Leapfrog, an independent health care quality rating organization. The U-M Hospitals and Health Centers were among 65 institutions named 2010 Leapfrog Top Hospitals, based on a rating system that provides a detailed assessment of a hospital’s safety and quality. U-M is one of four Michigan hospitals on the list. The University of Michigan Health System includes the U-M Hospitals and Health Centers; the U-M Medical School with its Faculty Group Practice; the clinical operations of the U-M School of Nursing; and the Michigan Health Corp. The three U-M hospitals are University Hospital, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital.
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Comments
Dr. I. Emsayin
Tue, Dec 14, 2010 : 5:07 p.m.
Katherine Winkelhaus-Meyers was an excellent president of Borders Books. She helped Borders achieve the heights of their heyday. She will be a great asset to Bellanina. Glad to know she is back on the local scene.