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Business new in brief: Valley Health welcomes two new physicians
Valley Health welcomes two new physicians
HUNTINGTON -- Valley Health welcomes Dr. Luay Mousa and Dr. Aaron Scaife.
Mousa, a physician who specializes in internal medicine, will treat patients at the Valley Health -- Highlawn location and serve as a hospitalist to Valley Health inpatients at Cabell Huntington Hospital. Mousa will begin seeing patients Sept. 15, 2008.
Mousa completed his residency at Charleston Area Medical Center. Before he arrived in West Virginia to begin his medical career in the United States, Mousa lived and studied in Syria. He earned his M.D. from Damascus University School of Medicine, where he served as a primary caregiver through the National Union of Medical Students, an organization that provided free medical care to low-income people in his community.
Mousa will be available at Valley Health -- Highlawn Monday through Friday. To schedule an appointment with Mousa, call 304-781-5138. Valley Health Highlawn is located at 2585 3rd Ave.
Scaife is an obstetrician and gynecologist who performs surgical procedures and deliveries at Cabell Huntington Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital. Scaife started seeing patients July 1 under the umbrella of Valley Health at Valley Health -- Highlawn and Valley Health -- Ironton medical centers.
Scaife graduated magna cum laude from West Virginia University, then went on to earn a doctor of chiropractic at National College of Chiropractic in Lombard, Ill. He opened a chiropractic office in Huntington before he began medical school at Marshall University School of Medicine. Scaife completed a residency in OB/GYN locally through Marshall University School of Medicine.
Scaife is available at Valley Health -- Ironton on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays and at Valley Health -- Highlawn on Thursdays.
To schedule an appointment with Scaife, call one of the above offices. Valley Health -- Ironton, located at 1041 Ironton Hills Drive in Ironton, can be reached at 740-532-1188.
Five attorneys named W.Va. Super Lawyers
HUNTINGTON — Jenkins Fenstermaker, PLLC, a Huntington based law firm, announces that five of its attorneys have been selected by their peers as 2008 West Virginia Super Lawyers in their respective practice areas. As outlined on www.superlawyers.com, “the objective of the Super Lawyers selection process is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource to assist attorneys and consumers in the search for legal counsel.”
Member and CEO, Barry M. Taylor, was selected in medical malpractice; members Thomas E. Scarr and Robert “Bo” Sweeney Jr., were selected in general litigation; member Lee Murray Hall, was selected in insurance coverage; and member Brian S. Lindsay was selected as a West Virginia Super Lawyer Rising Star, which is given to only 2.5 percent of those nominated.
Jenkins Fenstermaker represents clients in areas such as litigation, labor-management relations, workers’ compensation, business law, wills, estates and trusts, insurance defense and coverage analysis, real estate, mediation and others.
Cabell Huntington adds two plastic surgeons
HUNTINGTON — Plastic surgeons Keith D. Pitzer, M.D., and Farid Mozaffari, M.D., have joined the Cabell Huntington Hospital Medical and Dental Staff and the Department of Surgery at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.
Pitzer earned his medical degree from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and completed a residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Scott and White Hospital at Texas A & M University. He has a specific surgical interest post-bariatric contouring, cancer reconstructive surgery, breast surgery, aesthetic surgery, skin cancer surgery and facial rejuvenation.
Mozaffari earned his medical degree from Cambridge Medical Training Programme at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He completed a general surgery residency at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University and a plastic and reconstructive surgery residency at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Ga. Mozaffari’s surgical interests include pediatric and craniofacial surgery, post-bariatric surgery, body contouring and aesthetic surgery.
Mozaffari and Pitzer are now accepting patients. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 304-691-1200.
Old Colony wins multi-production awards
HUNTINGTON — At a recent statewide sales rally for Old Colony, Realtors, 24 Realtors from the Huntington, Barboursville, Milton, and Proctorville offices won multi-production awards for 2007.
The sales rally was on June 25-26 at Canaan Valley Resort.
Those in attendance from Old Colony Realtors of Huntington were: Libby Adkins, Betty Sargent, Edward Rahal, Sherry Asbury, Debi Reynolds, Becky Myers and broker, Mark Mansour.
Sargent was inducted into the Old Colony Realtors Hall of Fame. She is one of only three Realtors that share that honor. Sargent also received an award for most units closed in the state with 112 units closed.
Rahal received an award for the largest volume production increase in the state from 2006 to 2007 with more than 15 million in production.
The following agents received multi-volume production awards: Sargent, Rahal, Karen Twohig, Adkins, Reynolds, Carla Ore, Asbury, Todd and Tara Nelson, Janell Call, Linda Midkiff, Myers, Valerie Roach, Eleanor Floyd, Hugh Ladd, Donnie McCloud, Kim Reinhardt, Verlin Spurlock, Donna Blake, Dustin Holschuh, Michele Waugh, Nora Holmes, Betty Sturgeon and Ralph May.
