Nashville Bank & Trust officials announced today that Allen Bolden has joined the company as accounting operations manager.

A Certified Public Accountant, Bolden comes to Nashville Bank & Trust from Crowe Horwath LLP where he served as a staff auditor, participating in audits, performing control testing and risk assessments and reviewing financial statements. Prior to Crowe Horwath LLP, Bolden worked as a business manager and tax preparer for Wiatr and Associates LLC.

He holds a bachelor’s of business administration and a master’s of accounting from Lipscomb University.

A full-service bank and wealth management company, Nashville Bank & Trust services include personal and business loans, depository accounts, wealth management and trust services. Personal, expert service is the bank’s hallmark. Customers benefit from direct contact with senior-level, experienced bank executives who have decision-making authority and a full understanding of the local community and the client’s relationship with the bank.

DVL announces four promotions

Dye, Van Mol & Lawrence (DVL) has announced the promotions of four account service members.

Courtney Eller, Stacey Wilson and Brian Fulton have been promoted from their roles as account executives to account supervisors. Eller joined the firm in 2004 as an account service associate and also served as an assistant account executive. Wilson came to DVL in 2005 from fashion media agency KCD, Inc. in New York. Fulton joined DVL in 2009 as an account executive after six years at the Nashville Sports Council.

Elizabeth Lee, a member of DVL’s advertising division, has been promoted from assistant account executive to account executive. Lee joined DVL in 2008 after working in music publishing and business management.

VUMC’s Shuster named president of APM

John Shuster Jr., M.D., professor of Psychiatry and Medicine and director of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Psychiatry and Medicine program, has been elected president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM). His term will end in November 2011.

The APM has a membership of more than 900 psychiatrists from around the world dedicated to the advancement of medical science, education and health care for patients with concurrent psychiatric and medical conditions and provides national and international leadership furthering those goals.

Shuster, who joined the faculty in July, is developing Vanderbilt’s Psychiatry and Medicine program, which deals with the psychiatric care of patients with medical illness or those cared for in non-psychiatric settings and represents Vanderbilt’s effort in Psychosomatic Medicine. The field is formerly known as Consultation Psychiatry.

Shuster, a graduate of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Emory University School of Medicine, served a residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and came to Vanderbilt from the University of Alabama Birmingham where he was the founding director of the UAB Center for Palliative Care.

VUMC’s McGirt lands dermatology award

Laura McGirt, M.D., assistant professor of Dermatology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received a Physician-Scientist Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation.

The awards were announced during the foundation’s annual meeting last month in New Orleans.

The first-time award is for $55,000, and is renewable twice.

McGirt, who joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2010, has a research interest in cutaneous oncology, including the identification of improved diagnostic and prognostic markers for the cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, mycosis fungoides.

Lifepoint’s Seraphine now division president

LifePoint Hospitals, a leading hospital company focused on providing quality healthcare services close to home, today announced that Jeff Seraphine has been appointed president of one of its five operating divisions. In his new role, Seraphine will provide leadership and direction to a division that includes all hospitals newly acquired by the company as well as seven existing hospitals located in Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Seraphine previously served as a Division COO. He has held many senior executive positions at LifePoint, including CEO of Georgetown Community Hospital in Georgetown, Ky., Bluegrass Community Hospital in Versailles, Ky., and Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital in Somerset, Ky.

Prior to LifePoint, Seraphine served in hospital administration roles at HCA in Florida. He holds a master’s in health administration and a bachelor’s in business administration and marketing from the University of Kentucky.