•Woodbine has appointed Martin Davidson as its chief creative officer, a new position at the agency. Davidson will join Vickie Canada, Woodbine's creative director, to form a new senior creative leadership team. Davidson moved from the Mullen agency in Wenham, Mass., to Mullen in Winston-Salem in 2001, where he was an associate creative director. In 2006, he became the founding partner and creative director of DavidsonRoth, a strategic branding agency.
•Abner G. Wright has joined the brokerage firm of Freeman Commercial Real Estate as a commercial broker. Wright has more than 20 years of experience in development, finance, retail and industrial leasing and property management. He founded the retail chain Space Savers in 1990 and previously operated five stores and Spacesaver.com. Wright co-developed and built the Towers Shopping Center on Stratford Road in 1995.
•The law firm Spilman Thomas & Battle said Stephanie U. Roberts recently joined the Winston-Salem office as counsel. Her primary area of practice is litigation with an emphasis on toxic tort, chemical exposure, construction defect and product-liability litigation. Roberts has 14 years of experience practicing law.
•Brooks Jewett has joined Salem Financial Group Inc. Jewett, who is from Winston-Salem, recently graduated from the University of Mississippi.
•Nicole Holland, who lives in Advance and is an independent distributor for Reliv International, was recently promoted to the director level. Reliv distributors advance to a higher level when their sales organizations meet income and sales-volume goals.
•A Child's World Learning Center at 2005 Lewisville-Clemmons Road in Clemmons recently went through its state review and earned enough points to receive a Five Star rating. This rating is based on employee education, program standards, compliance history and other areas. Five stars is the highest available rating in the state. Stacey McElveen is the director of the child-care center, which has 35 staff members. Andy Hewitt of Advance owns four A Child's World Learning Center locations in Forsyth and Davie counties, including the one in Clemmons.
•The Environmental Protection Agency has named Lowe's the winner of the Energy Star Sustained Excellence Award in Retail for the second consecutive year. The 2011 award recognizes Lowe's long-standing leadership as a retailer of energy-efficient products. The company, based in Mooresville but founded in Wilkes County, is the nation's No. 2 home-improvement retailer.
•Salem Surgical Associates, Salem Vascular Laboratory in Winston-Salem recently achieved accreditation by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories. Salem Vascular Laboratory in Kernersville also achieved accreditation by the commission. Both vascular laboratories received recognition for their commitment to providing a high level of patient care and quality testing for the diagnosis of vascular disease. Also, Dr. Nicolas E. Robinson, a colon and rectal surgeon for Salem Surgical Associates, recently became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
•Dr. Savithri Nageswaran, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has been awarded the Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Early Career Physician Award for 2011. The award is given to physicians whose patient care is exemplary, who model good medicine for other physicians and who emphasize the importance of end-of-life care as a basic part of the doctor-patient relationship.
•The Molecular Medicine and Translational Science Graduate Program at Wake Forest University School of Medicine recently received high national rankings from Academic Analytics LLC, a company that ranks universities based on faculty scholarly productivity. The MMTS program ranked sixth out of 48 similar programs nationally. The index of faculty scholarly productivity is based on publications, citations, grants and honorary awards.
•Dr. Richard Lord Jr., an assistant professor of family and community medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, was recently installed as the president of the N.C. Academy of Family Physicians.
•Forsyth Medical Center was recently voted by nurses as one of the top four places to work among hospitals in the southeastern United States. The recognition was part of the 2010 Readers' Choice survey by "Advance for Nurses." The results were based on the evaluations by nurses in the categories of excellence in quality of care, organizational culture, communication, professional development and retention efforts.
•George K. Walker Florist has been named a top 100 member of FTD for the 19th straight year. FTD has more than 20,000 members worldwide.
•H. Allen Tate Jr., the founder and chairman of the board of the Allen Tate Co., was recently inducted into the N.C. Housing Hall of Fame. The award honors men and women who have made significant and lasting contributions to housing in North Carolina, the building industry and the N.C. Home Builders Association.
•Mountainside LLC in Wilkesboro recently honored Roger Emerson of Austinville, Va., with its Perseverance Award and Bill Farr of Leatherwood Mountains with its Negotiation Award for outstanding performance in 2010. Emerson and Farr sell Mountainside LLC cabins and land in southern Virginia and northwest North Carolina.
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