The Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies has added four new community leaders to its community advisory board. They are:
- Andrea Carlton, philanthropist
- Charles Bone, founder and chairman, Bone McAllester Norton PLLC.
- Patricia Shea, CEO, YWCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee
- Jaynee Day, president and CEO, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee.
The advisory board members help set the center’s priorities and serve as ambassadors for the center’s mission.
Bone’s experience covers many industries and areas of law, including business formation, mergers and acquisitions, capital creation, joint ventures, financial institutions, media law and government relations. He serves on the Tennessee Higher Education Commission as well as the boards of Salvus Inc., Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau and Cumberland Region Tomorrow.
Shea was at Family and Children’s Services and the Arthritis Foundation before going to the YWCA, where she was named CEO in 2007. In addition to managing the organization’s operations and annual financial goals, she’s responsible for the strategic planning, relationship building, development and fundraising for the YWCA.
Day, who has more than 30 years of experience in non-profit management and administration, was named president and CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee in 1988. She has served on the board of Feeding America and is currently a board member for Global Foodbanking Network, Rooftop and Nashville Sports Council.
The Vanderbilt Center for Nashville Studies facilitates research on community-identified issues and needs and provides timely recommendations on policy-level solutions and actions. This mission is carried out through research projects, university-community partnerships, and conversations and collaborations. It is led by executive director Whitney Weeks. More information is available at vanderbilt.edu/vcns.
Edgeworth named COO of Vanderbilt Hospital
Mitch Edgeworth has been named chief operating officer for Vanderbilt University Hospital.
Edgeworth comes to Vanderbilt from Quorum Health Resources, where he served as regional vice president and was responsible for the operational performance and strategic objectives of 12 hospitals in Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico since 2009.
He earned bachelor’s degrees from Lipscomb University and Georgia Tech, then began his career as an industrial engineer with Saturn Corp. Edgeworth worked for the Duke University Health System as a management engineer and manager of performance services from 1998-2002. While at Duke, he earned his MBA. From 2002-2009 Edgeworth worked at Tenet Health System, serving in various leadership roles including CEO of Doctors Hospital in Dallas.
Conway-Welch receives global health award
Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., CNM, dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, has been recognized with the first-ever Project HOPE Global Health Leadership Award for her accomplishments and impact in health care worldwide.
Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health crises, with the mission of helping people to help themselves. It operates the world’s first peacetime hospital ship, the SS HOPE, and conducts land-based medical training and health education programs in 35 countries.
Conway-Welch was honored for her contributions spanning five decades, including more than 40 years as a nurse and educator. She has traveled the globe in her efforts to improve medical care in underserved communities, spearheading successful health education programs from Botswana to Bahrain.
She served on President Reagan’s Commission on HIV, the 1998 National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and the 2002 Advisory Council on Public Health Preparedness. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science and in 2007 was appointed by President Bush to the Board of Regents of the Uniformed University of the Health Sciences.
Adams merges practice with Crownover, Blevins
Derek Crownover and Allen Blevins, shareholders in the firm, Crownover, Blevins, P.C., has been joined by attorney Austen Adams.
Adams is an entertainment, media and corporate attorney who represents and advises recording artists, songwriters, producers, artist managers, music publishers and other music industry professionals in entertainment and media transactions. He also is an adjunct professor at Belmont University, Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business.
After graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1996, Adams earned his J.D. from the Louisiana State University School of Law in 1999, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Order of the Coif and the Louisiana Law Review. He was also the recipient of the Judge Alvin B. Rubin Scholarship and the Dean Paul M. Hebert Scholarship during law school.
Community Foundation hires donor coordinator
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, a charitable organization connecting the generosity of donors with philanthropic causes throughout Middle Tennessee and beyond, has hired Lillian Turman as donor services coordinator.
Turman will be responsible for strengthening The Community Foundation’s relationships with donors through strategic donor engagement, as well as planning and facilitating donor-initiated events to raise support for a variety of charitable funds within The Community Foundation.
Prior to joining The Community Foundation, Turman served as the director of alumni relations and stewardship at Vanderbilt University Law School, where she was responsible for strategic management of the alumni relations program and direction of all stewardship events, supporting the overall development effort and goodwill for the Law School.
Sledge joins McNeely Pigott & Fox
McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations has hired Colby Sledge as an account executive.
Sledge, a native of Nolensville, was most recently the press secretary for the Tennessee Senate Democratic Caucus. He began his career at The Tennessean, reporting on local and state politics, higher education, and crime.
In addition to his work in journalism and politics, Sledge is co-chairman of South Nashville Action People (SNAP), a nonprofit organization in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood.
He will graduate in December with his master’s degree in civic leadership from the Nelson Andrews Institute at Lipscomb University.
Webber named pediatrics chair
Steven Webber, MBChB, MRCP, has been named the James C. Overall Professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
In this role Webber will serve as the hospital’s pediatrician-in-chief. He will join VUMC in late August.
Webber, identified through a national search, comes to Vanderbilt from Pittsburgh, where he served as the Peter and Ada Rossin Chair in Pediatric Cardiology, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.
At Pittsburgh, Webber’s clinical leadership included co-direction of the Heart Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, which sees more than 15,000 patients each year in 15 locations. Since 1995 he has served as medical director of the Children’s Hospital Pediatric Heart and Heart-Lung Transplant Program.
Webber graduated from the University of Bristol Medical School, U.K., in 1983, and underwent residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics in the U.K. at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospital-Nottingham and John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. He underwent fellowship training at the University of British Columbia Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1994.
Webber’s clinical expertise involves the care of children and young adults with end-stage heart failure, including those undergoing mechanical support and thoracic transplantation. His research interests include post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders, understanding the genetic contributions to graft and patient outcomes and the role of alloantibodies in determining graft outcomes after pediatric thoracic transplantation.