Pennington researcher honored, business group adds members | Business News
Leaders for a Better Louisiana’s Committee of 100 added 10 new members during the first quarter.
The new members are: Denise Bottcher, state director, AARP; Paul Brummett, president and CEO, JD Bank; Brian Haymon, CEO, Loadstar Product Handling Services; Karl Hoefer, regional president, First Horizon; Jay Lapeyre, president, Laitram; Todd Little, managing member, Little & Associates; Malcolm Murchison, special counsel, Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea; Matt Saurage, innovation manager, Community Coffee; Kevin Simpson, manager of Southeast policy, Shell; and Guy Williams, president and CEO, Gulf Coast Bank & Trust.
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The New Orleans Real Estate Investors Association, a nonprofit trade association, has updated its leadership.
Linda Locascio has been appointed president of the association, after previously serving as vice president. She replaces Nicolas Zepeda, who served as president for the past two years. He will continue to serve as a director of the organization.
Stephen Keighery has joined the board as director of marketing and memberships.
David Birdsong has been appointed vice president and will continue as director of legal affairs.
Betsy Birdsong is now director of national member benefits, after being treasurer. She replaces Jason Cole, who moves to treasurer after he was director of national member benefits.
Konstantin Ginzburg is director of digital infrastructure, and Stephanie Woodside is programming director.
Jessica Manzella and Carol Logreco are continuing to serve as board members.
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Elizabeth Ellison-Frost has been appointed to the Board of Commissioners for the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority.
Ellison-Frost is community relations manager for PBF Energy in Chalmette. She previously worked for ExxonMobil Refining & Supply.
Ellison-Frost serves on multiple boards, including the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, Women United, the Pontchartrain Conservancy, United Way of Southeast Louisiana and the St. Bernard Economic Development Foundation.
She earned a bachelor’s in political science from LSU and a master’s in creative writing from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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Dr. Leanne Redman, of Pennington Biomedical Research Center, has been honored by the American Society for Nutrition.
Redman, associate executive director for scientific education and director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Pennington, is this year’s recipient of the E.V. McCollum Award. The award goes to a clinical investigator who is perceived as a major creative force, actively generating new concepts in nutrition and personally seeing to the execution of studies testing the validity of these concepts.
She has built an independent research program around women’s health, primarily in research that focuses on female infertility, pregnancy and the development of childhood obesity from the womb. Her research has brought more than $50 million to Pennington Biomedical in the past 15 years.
Redman is an authority on body weight regulation and has published more than 250 research papers on the topic as well as on women’s health, obesity and nutrition.