■ The HR Group Inc. has named Sandie Bateman a vice president of learning and development, HRG Academy. The company has also named Brenda Thompson to the position of director of administration. Bateman began her career as a teacher in the Guilford County school system.
■ Karen Wilson has joined the law firm of Wall Esleeck Babcock LLP in Winston-Salem as a partner. Her practice focuses on estate planning, estate administration, and corporate and tax law. She also is a certified public accountant. Before joining Wall Esleeck Babcock, Wilson was a partner at Robinson & Lawing LLP in Winston-Salem.
■ Bald Eagle Technologies in Winston-Salem said that Jason Slabaugh has joined the company as a business developer. Slabaugh will focus on technical staffing. He has more than seven years of experience throughout North Carolina in business-technology solutions.
■ Dr. Louis C. Argenta is being honored for his work developing negative-pressure wound therapy and for his continuing contributions to surgical patient care. He is a professor and the chairman emeritus of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Kinetic Concepts Inc. and the American College of Surgeons Foundation announced a five-year, $250,000 educational grant for a research fellowship and an international scholarship -- both named for Argenta -- to promote surgical education and research vital to advancing wound care.
■ H. Grady Barnhill Jr., a longtime Womble Carlyle attorney, was recently honored by the N.C. Bar Association with the Litigation Section Advocate's Award, the highest honor that a litigation attorney in the state can receive. Barnhill is the dean of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice's litigation practice and a dean of the Forsyth County and North Carolina Bars.
■ The Educational Foundation of IFDA recently awarded its 2009 scholarships and grants. Local winners were Mary Jo Drum of High Point University, a senior, majoring in home-furnishing marketing, the IFDA/EF Marketing Intern Scholarship; and Jeanne A. Mercer-Ballard, an assistant professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, the Texas Chapter's Elizabeth Brown Grant for Interior Design Programs.
Also, the Education Foundation of IFDA has named Ann Unal of Fairfax, Va., to its board of trustees. The board's immediate past chairman/advisor is Bonnie L. Peterson of Greensboro. Raymond Waites of New York and High Point is an honorary trustee.
■ O'Brien/Atkins Associates P.A. in Research Triangle Park said that Christina M. Nguyen of Mebane has passed the architectural registration exam and is a licensed architect in North Carolina. Nguyen currently serves on the N.C. Department of the Environment and Natural Resources Headquarters/Green Square Complex team.
■ The Program for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has been renamed the Center for Integrative Medicine, reflecting the program's growth and increasing significance at the Medical Center.
■ The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship in Greensboro has added a new company to its program. HR for U, owned by Maria Hicks-Few, recently established residence in the business incubator. HR for U is a provider of human-resource services for small, medium and emerging businesses.
■ A video created in the new Human Performance and Biodynamics Laboratory in Winston-Salem has won an award from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons/American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
The laboratory is a collaboration between the Department of Physical Therapy in Winston-Salem State University's School of Health Sciences and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
The video, titled "Physical Evaluation of Hip Pain in Non/Pre-Arthritic Patient and Athlete," was shot by Will Safrit, the video and multimedia producer from Wake Forest Baptist's Creative Communications Department.
Others who participated in the development of the video were Ben Long, the manager of the lab and a physical-therapy instructor from WSSU; orthopaedic resident Dr. Adam Anz; medical student Stephanie Cheetham; pediatric orthopaedic surgeon Dr. John Frino; orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Allston Stubbs; and Martin Tanaka, an assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a co-director of the laboratory, all from Wake Forest Baptist.
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