business briefs
• Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic recently hired Dr. Mary Crowe, who bring expertise in foot and ankle care to the clinic’s Turkey Creek location.
• SmartBank in Knoxville announces the appointment of Jarrod Trumpp to its executive team as the new chief risk officer. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Trumpp brings a track record of overseeing risk management and regulatory compliance at leading financial institutions.
• Covenant Health Park, a multi-use sports and recreation complex in Knoxville that was built by Denark Construction, recently won an ENR Southeast Award of Merit.
• University of Tennessee Medical Center announces the appointment of Brandi Lowell as senior vice president of Chief Government Relations and grants officer.
• UTMC announces the launch of an initiative to transform access to life-saving cancer screenings across East Tennessee. This fall, UTMC will deploy a new 45-foot mobile CT lung cancer screening unit — the first of its kind in the region — and expand its longstanding Mobile Mammography program with the launch of a second mobile mammography unit.
• 7-Eleven on Lovell Road was one of three Tennessee stores that recently were ranked among the nation’s best for roller hot dogs by 3,006 drivers and truckers. It came in sixth nationally. It was followed by Mapco in Chattanooga, which ranked 44th, and Twice Daily in Nashville, which ranked 70th.
• Grayson Subaru recently presented a check for $46,732 to Ijams Nature Center to continue its work to expand the Ijams Nature Playscape at Grayson Subaru Preserve and improve the Mead’s Quarry Lake swim area.
The local retailer chose the nonprofit nature center as its hometown charity for Subaru of America, Inc.’s 2024 Subaru Share the Love Event. From Nov. 15, 2024, to Jan. 2, 2025, Subaru and its retailers donated a minimum of $300 for every new Subaru vehicle purchased or leased at participating retailers nationwide to several national charities and a hometown charity chosen by each retailer.
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recently awarded a two-year $423,500 grant to Colleen Jonsson, PhD, director of Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at University of Tennessee Health Science Center for a project that could lead to a novel treatment for a viral infection that spreads to both humans and animals.
