business briefs
• Brad Maul recently was selected as East Tennessee Economic Development Agency’s new president/CEO of its board of directors effective Jan. 1, 2021. Maul will replace Allen Neel who is retiring after serving as ETEDA president/CEO since 1994.
Maul, currently based in Nashville, has a background in economic development marketing. He currently is director of economic development in the Industrial Business Unit with Clayco Inc., one of the nation’s largest privately-owned real estate and construction firms.
He formerly was manager of Global Location and Expansion Services with KPMG, LLP, an international audit/tax/advisory and site consulting company and served as target market specialist with Tennessee Valley Authority
• Joe Black, Visit Knoxville market research director, recently received the DK Shifflet Award for research excellence by Travel and Tourism Research Association. Black was chosen from a select group of analysts for research that resulted or contributed to key decisions or actions for their organization and/or its constituents.
• The University of Tennessee officials recently announced the Primary Care Collaborative is the seventh Center of Excellence at the comprehensive academic medical center. The creation of the collaborative was intended to strengthen the overall care for patients by forging stronger bonds, communication and data sharing between primary care physicians and specialists affiliated with the medical center.
• Cherel Bolin Henderson, East Tennessee Historical Society executive director, recently announced her plans to retire from ETHS effective Dec. 31. Henderson joined ETHS staff in 1987, was promoted to associate director in 1995 and to executive director in 2003. Her successor will be Dr. Warren Dockter, who has been named as ETHS board president/CEO.
• Ashley M. Stokes, DVM, Ph.D., MBA, a veterinarian currently serving as associate vice president of engagement and deputy director of Colorado State Extension, has been chosen as the new dean of University of Tennessee in UT Institute of Agriculture effective Feb. 22, 2021.
Stokes has a broad history of service to the national cooperative extension system.
• The Association of Neurovascular Clinicians recently awarded the 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife Award to Jennifer Henry, director of the University of Tennessee Medical Center stroke program and certified comprehensive stroke center. This year’s award recognizes the nurse and midwife for their contribution to stroke treatment in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale.
