A group of 10 cardiologists practicing under the name Tennova Heart is joining Tennova Healthcare – Cleveland.
Tennova Heart was established last year to coordinate cardiology care and related services across a network of five east Tennessee hospitals in Knoxville, Jefferson City, LaFollette and Newport. Joining with Tennova Healthcare – Cleveland expands the network to six cooperating hospitals.
Interventional cardiologist Dr. Robert Martyn will begin seeing patients in Cleveland on July 15 in the Tennova Heart clinic at 2253 Chambliss Ave NW, Suite 301. In the coming weeks, cardiologists Dr. Yasir Akhtar, Dr. Fahd Chaudhry, Dr. Clint Doiron, Dr. Malcom Foster, Dr. Osareme Irivbogbe, Dr. William Lindsay, Dr. Ravi Mehta, Dr. Barry Michelson, and Dr. Steven Reed will join Dr. Martyn.
“We look forward to bringing our advanced level of cardiology services to the Cleveland community. My colleagues and I feel confident in the efforts that Tennova Healthcare – Cleveland has put in place over the past few years to grow their cardiac capabilities and this is the next step to continue cardiology advancement in the region,” said Dr. Malcom Foster, an interventional cardiologist for Tennova Heart.
Tom Boyd wins award for company sales
Tom Boyd, a certified life underwriter with Ohio National Financial Services, won the prestigious George B. Pearson Sales Leadership Award for 2018. The award is presented to the top producers of Ohio National’s more than 8000 general agents.
Ohio National Financial Services is one of the largest life insurance companies in the United State. Boyd also qualified for the Million Dollar Round Table’s Court of the Table for 2019.
Amie Bowden, Kelly Parks and Shari Pilgrim have joined Pinnacle Financial Partners
Amie Bowden, Kelly Parks and Shari Pilgrim have joined Pinnacle Financial Partners’ Chattanooga office at 801 Broad Street.
Bowden, with 12 years of financial services experience, joins Pinnacle as a financial advisor assistant. She most recently worked at Synovus Bank, where she was a senior commercial assistant. Prior roles were with Signature Bank of Georgia, where she was a commercial lending process manager, Bank of North Georgia (a division of Synovus Bank), where she served as a senior commercial assistant and Legacy Wealth Management Group, Inc, where she was director of client services.
Parks brings 11 years of experience to her role of executive assistant to Chattanooga Chairman Craig Holley. She was previously a senior closing agent assistant for Team Title and an executive assistant for Zimmer Carolinas, where she provided direct support to the president and CEO, management team, operations team and sales force of the large, publicly traded company.
Parks earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Pilgrim has more than six years of experience and serves as a financial specialist. Prior to joining Pinnacle, she was a teller and new accounts customer services representative for Comtrust Federal Credit Union. Previous roles were with First Volunteer Bank, where she was an operations item processor, and First Federal Savings & Loan (AmSouth Bank), where she was a teller and bookkeeper.
Michael Baskette joins Plainview LED as sales manager
Michael R. Baskette, formerly director of the fleet and commercial department at Mountain View Chevrolet for eight years, has joined Plainview LED as sales manager.
A Hixson resident and graduate of UTC, Baskette has spent his carer in fleet management, freight brokerage and logistics management for such companies as Crete Carrier Corp., D.M. Kaye & Sons Inc., Burlington Motor Carriers, Roadway Global,and Spartan Express.
Baskette is a board member of the Hamilton County HR Employee Hearings Appeals Board, the English Oaks Neighborhood Association, the Hixson Planning Task Force, the Friends of Hixson the Citizens Administrative Review Committee and the UTC Fraternity Alumni Advisory Committee. He was also campaign chairman for Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Martin and was a former president of Signa Chi Alumni and the transportation unit of the United Way in Chattanooga.
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