Lauren Barlew joins Women’s Surgery and Aesthetics Center as a dual board-certified Nurse Practitioner in both Women’s Health and Adult Primary Care. She earned a Master’s of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University in 2012 after extensive training and dedication towards women’s health care. She has spent the past six years as a nurse practitioner in primary care in Chattanooga where her personal focus was women’s health issues.
Irma Velazquez joins La Paz Chattanooga as a business development coordinator. Velazquez is a native of Mexico, but she has spent most of her life in the United States and has lived in Chattanooga since 1999. As a former business owner, she brings experience in business management and development. She supports Compañía, La Paz Chattanooga’s business development department that works with the local business community to create opportunities for local professionals seeking to network with the Latino community, provide professional development programming for Latino entrepreneurs to build their skill set and connect businesses and agencies to the Latino market.
Bryan Rainey joins the structural team of March Adams, a Chattanooga engineering firm. Rainey has eight years of experience in civil and structural design as well as analysis, calculations, inspection and construction management. Rainey is a graduate of the University of Tennessee.
Caitlin Cavarra joins Chattanooga Physical Therapy. She received her doctorate of physical therapy from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2015.Cavarra is orthopaedic residency trained and board certified in orthopaedics by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties of the American Physical Therapy Association. She specializes in treating low back pain, neck pain, rotator cuff pathology and knee pain. Other certifications include dry needling and ASTYM.
Tommy Tynes joins the financial services group at Elliott Davis, an accounting and business solutions firm with nine offices across the Southeast. With more than 25 years of experience in a variety of senior roles at several large financial institutions, Tynes focuses primarily on risk advisory services, consulting on key issues facing clients in the financial services industry.