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People In The News The HealthAlliance Foundation is pleased to announce its slate of officers for the Board of Directors: Chairperson, Glenn Decker; First Vice Chairperson, Michael Kelley; Second Vice Chairperson, Mary Ann Hildebrandt; Treasurer, Rick Mantey; and Secretary, Thomasine Helsmoortel. New board mem - bers announced for 2014 are: Beverly Lastig, Ann Williams, Marisa Perez-Rogers, Terri Lee, Joe Huben and Dr. Charles Kutler. Lastig is retired and brings many years of experience from working at IBM. She is presently a member of the Kingston Hospital Auxiliary and volunteers in the Main Street Gift Shop. Williams is a HealthAlliance Hospital Patient Ambassador presently working at Herzog's True Value Home Center in Kingston. Marisa Perez-Rogers is the Senior Account Executive for WDST 100.1 Radio Woodstock. Lee is the owner of Sensational Creations Nail and Hair Salon in Kingston. Huben is the former director of the New Visions Technical Center at BOCES. Dr. Kutler is the Medical Director for the Wound Healing Center of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley at the Broadway campus. Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH) President and CEO Joel Seligman was elected Treasurer for the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS). HANYS is a nonprofit organiza - tion and leading authority on healthcare policy and operations that advocates on behalf of N.Y. State's hospitals and health systems. Seligman is also a member of HANYS Board of Governors. He has dedicated his career to the healthcare industry, serving in numerous roles at Mount Sinai Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before assum - ing leadership of NWH in 2001. During his tenure at NWH, he has focused on clinical excellence, service quality and community outreach. NWH was among the first hospitals selected as a Planetree Designated hospital. Since then, NWH has twice been acknowl - edged as a Planetree Re-Designated Hospital with Distinction. HealthAlliance Foundation is proud to announce that Executive Director Steffen Kraehmer has recently received his International Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) recertification. Kraehmer, who has worked as the Executive Director at the Foundation for 14 years, was initially awarded certification on June 1, 2004, and has continued with this certification for the past 10 years. HealthAlliance Foundation is commit - ted to maintaining ethical, professional and prosperous fundraising techniques to support and promote the efforts of HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley and to help develop a healthy community. The No. 1 priority of the HealthAlliance Foundation is to ensure quality health care in Ulster County and sur - rounding communities. The CFRE credential was first awarded in 1981 and is the first globally recognized credential for fundrais- ing professionals. There are over 5,600 professional fundraisers throughout the world with CFRE designation. David Cziner, MD, a WESTMED Medical Group board-certified cardiologist with offic - es in White Plains, was recently presented with the Dr. Leonard Finkelstein Excellence Award for 2013. The award is named for the deceased Dr. Leonard Finkelstein, a founding and admired member of, then, The Westchester Medical Group, who practiced internal medicine in the area for more than 35 years. Dr. Cziner received his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine and was a senior fellow in non-invasive cardiology at NYU's Tisch Hospital. He is Chief Emeritus of the Department of Cardiology at White Plains Hospital and is also on staff at Greenwich Hospital. It is our pleasure to enhance our role as a resource to the local medical community, and we welcome your feedback. Please feel free to call our office at 914-967-6565. Your views and opinions are important to us. The HealthAlliance Foundation's new board members (from L to R) Terri Lee, Joe Huben, Glenn Decker, Ann Williams, Beverly Lastig, Marisa Perez-Rogers, Steffen Kraehmer, (not in photo: Dr. Charles Kutler) Joel Seligman, President & CEO, Northern Westchester Hospital David Cziner, MD SHARE YOUR NEWS MD NEWS IS now accepting submissions for our new People in the News section, which highlights physicians, executives and organizations making news in our region. Submissions may include: + new appointments/elected positions + new initiatives and partnerships + newly published research + awards and achievements + topics of local interest Please keep your submissions to 100 words. Those greater than 100 words will not be considered due to space restrictions. Publication of submissions and/or headshots/photos is on a space- available basis. Please email submissions and high-resolution images to Paula Slater at pslater.mdn@verizon.net with the subject field "People in the News." ■ M D N E W S . CO M ■ MD NEWS Mid Hudson | 5