Movers & Shakers for June 8, 2020

The Girl Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts, which has offices in Worcester and Holyoke, has appointed its new board members: CHRISTINE CASSIDY, senior vice president and chief communications officer at Fallon Health; ADRIENNE HALL-PHILLIPS, an associate professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; AMY JAMROG, CEO of The Jamrog Group; PATRICIA LEARY, director of community advocacy at the American Heart Association; NICOLE MESSIER, maritime portfolio business manager for Raytheon; and SHERYL ZAROZNY, practice director for Change Healthcare Consulting. The Girl Scouts appointed two new officers: BONNIE WALKER, the interim director of equity and inclusion at Worcester Academy, who was elected second vice chair; and JENNIFER JOHNSON, a clinical director for CareScout, who was elected secretary.

Dr. Jeffrey Brooks

Dr. JEFFREY BROOKS is the new chair of radiology at Milford Regional Medical Center. He graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 2006. Brooks completed a diagnostic radiology residency program and a breast imaging fellowship program at Boston University Medical Center.

Dr. Thoru Pederson

Dr. THORU PEDERSON, a cell biologist at UMass Medical School in Worcester, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ class of 2020 in recognition of work throughout his career. Pederson, an associate vice chancellor for research and professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, was a longtime scientist at the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Sciences and served as its president from 1985 until its merger with the UMass in 1997.

CHRISTINE LOWTHERT has been named Assumption College’s athletics director after holding the title on an interim basis. Lowthert joined Assumption in 2014 as associate athletic director/compliance coordinator and senior woman administrator, and previously served as assistant director of compliance and recruiting at Boston College and as assistant director of compliance at Duquesne University in Pittsburg. She earned her bachelor’s degrees from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Duquesne University.