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Who’s What, Where
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Business New Haven
1/7/2002
By: BNH
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Zulma Toro-Ramos, an industrial engineer and ergonomics specialist, has been named dean of the University of New Haven's School of Engineering. Previously Toro-Ramos was chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. Earlier she headed the University of Puerto Rico School of Engineering. She earned her doctoral degree at Georgia Tech.
Robert Sternberg, IBM professor of psychology and education and director of the Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies and Expertise at Yale, has been named president of the American Psychological Association (APA). The largest association of psychologists in the world, APA comprises some 155,000 members from the U.S. and abroad.
Kirk Varner has joined WTNH-TV as vice president and director of news. Previously Varner served as vice president of news services for Time Warner. He also served as vice president for news and creative services at WIVB-TV in Buffalo, N.Y. and has held news management and product positions at television stations in New York, Boston, Hartford and Charleston, South Carolina. Varner also worked as news director of ESPN's SportsCenter program.
Joseph D. Rupp has been elected CEO, president and a director of the Olin Corp. He succeeds Donald W. Griffin, who continues as chairman Rupp joined Olin's Brass Division in 1972 after graduating from the University of Missouri, Rolla with a B.S. in metallurgy. In 1985 he was named vice president of manufacturing for Olin Brass and president of Olin Brass and a corporate vice president in 1996. In March of this year, he was elected executive vice president of operations with responsibility for Olin's three operating divisions.
James C. Smith, chairman and CEO of Webster Financial Corp. and Webster Bank, has won the 2001 Public Service Award from the Connecticut chapter of the Turnaround Management Association. As co-chair with Gov. John G. Rowland of the Governor's Council on Economic Competitiveness & Technology, Smith helped lead Connecticut to a position of prominence in these areas and was also instrumental in helping to develop Connecticut's “cluster”-based economic development initiative.
Roger J. Sciascia, CPA, a partner at Weinstein & Anastasio, P.C. of Woodbridge, has been named to the board of the south-central Connecticut chapter of the American Red Cross, where he will serve on the finance committee. A tax, business valuation and litigation support partner, Sciascia joined Weinstein & Anastasio in 1987 and was named partner in 1992. Also, Vincenzo Fini, CPA, a partner in the firm, has been reappointed technology committee chairman of the Polaris North American Network, a membership association comprising 79 independent accounting and consulting firms in North America. Fini joined Weinstein & Anastasio in 1984 and made partner in 1994.
Susan L. Hartt, executive director of Market New Haven Inc. has resigned her position of 18 months. According to Hartt, she will be devoting her energies to her new one-person firm, Writing Matters. Ronelle P. Williams, current director of communications for the city's marketing arm, becomes acting executive director.
Edward N. LaFreniere has been named vive president/editorial at the Marlin Company, a North Haven-based international corporation that publishes educational, motivational and safety materials for 7,500 companies throughout North America. LaFreniere joined the company in 1994. He previously served as assistant managing editor of the Hartford Courant.
Tammy Paine of North Haven has been appointed assistant director of financial aid at the Quinnipiac University School of Law. She previously served as assistant to the sales manager at Nationwide Insurance in Wallingford and managed apartment complexes in Hamden for Tarragon Management. Paine was graduated from Lewis & Clark State University in Lewiston, Id. in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in business management.
Carmen J. Macca, CPA, has been named managing partner of Simione & Macca, LLP. Macca, who received his B.S. in accounting from Bentley College and a master's in taxation from the University of Hartford, has been in private practice for several years. Previously he worked for the IRS Examination Division, also serving as an instructor in training agents and developing audit training materials. Accounting Today cited him in 1999 for outstanding achievement in client service.
Issac Cohen, M.D. has joined the staff of the Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Center of Trumbull and Fairfield. Formerly with New England Baptist Bone & Joint Institute on a spine and musculoskeletal medicine fellowship, Cohen completed his residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medicine as chief resident in the department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
Alyssa Doherty of Hamden has been appointed assistant director of admissions and financial aid counselor at the Quinnipiac University School of Law. Doherty graduated from Quinnpiac's School of Law in May and from Pine Manor College in 1998 with a bachelor's in English.
Directors of Griffin Hospital in Derby have appointed five physicians to the medical staff. Myung W. Choi joins the active staff of the Department of Medicine in the divisions of internal medicine and gastroenterology. Choi earned his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia, where he also completed residency training in both internal medicine and gastroenterology. Thirumagal Yoaparan joins the division of internal medicine. She received her medical training at the University of Colombo's Postgraduate Institute of Medicine in Sri Lanka and completes her residency at the Yale School of Medicine, were she served as chief resident. Piotr W. Baginski joins the active staff in internal medicine. Baginski received his medical degree from the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland and completed his residency at St. Vincent's Hospital in Worcester, Mass. Marci S. Klein, who joins the department of pediatrics, earned her degree from New York University and completed her residency and fellowship in pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital, New York University Medical Center. Gerard Abidor has been named to the division of internal medicine. Abidor received his doctor of osteopathic medicine from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. He received his doctor of chiropractic medicine from the National College of Chiropractic and his residency in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut.
Trustees of the Saint Raphael Health Care System have named Daniel M. Koenigsberg, M.D. chairman of psychiatry. Koenigsberg, who specializes in child and adolescent psychiatry, has been acting chairman since October 2000. He will oversee the department's in- and out-patient programs for child and adults. An attending physician since 1975, Koenigsberg has served as vice chair of psychiatry, section chief of pediatric psychiatry and medical director of the former Adolescent Crisis Unit. He is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and has a private practice in New Haven. A Yale graduate, he earned his M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
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