Issue of Sept. 7
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Princeton Weightloss, owned and operated by Joyce Hoffman, has become a nonprofit organization. For the past 19 years, Ms. Hoffman has provided individuals with counseling on weight loss at her Ewing Street location in Princeton Professional Park. With a background in physical education, social work and nutrition, her focus is on the psychology of eating.
As a nonprofit, the proceeds from the counseling sessions will go to support breast cancer research, HomeFront in Trenton, and Debra, an organization dealing with skin disease.
Princeton resident Wayne N. Miller Sr. has been promoted to the position of regional sales director with AmeriPlan Corp. AmeriPlan USA is a provider of discounted health benefits, including dental, vision, prescription and chiropractic discounts, offered through independent business owners. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Plano, Texas.
Charles F. Jacey Jr. of Montgomery Township was recently appointed to the board of directors of Barrier Therapeutics Inc. A retired senior partner of Coopers & Lybrand, Mr. Jacey currently serves on the boards of The Greater New York Insurance Co. and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Also appointed to Barrier’s board were Robert E. Campbell, retired executive from Johnson & Johnson, and private pharmaceutical industrial consultant Carl W. Ehmann.
Barrier Therapeutics, located in Plainsboro, develops pharmaceutical products in the field of dermatology.
Cytogen Corp. announced that William J. Thomas has joined the company as senior vice president and general counsel. In this capacity he will act as primary liaison with the company’s outside legal counsel and have responsibility for all legal matters at Cytogen.
Mr. Thomas was formerly a senior partner with the local law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, and has 19 years of experience in representing emerging growth and high-technology businesses.
Cytogen Corp., of Plainsboro, is an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes a portfolio of oncology products that address the needs of patients and the physicians who serve them.
LAW
Princeton resident Katherine Benesch was recently honored as one of the top hospital lawyers in the county by Nightingale’s Healthcare News. The bimonthly newsletter targets professionals serving the healthcare industry, as well as executives and others working in the industry.
Ms. Benesch has worked in health law and litigation for more than 20 years and is currently a partner in the Plainsboro office of Duane Morris. A frequent author and lecturer in the areas of health law and managed care, she is currently a trustee/adviser of the Bioethics Forum of Princeton University.
Pennington resident Bruce H. Stern has been awarded Diplomat status by the American Board of Trial Advocates. The award signifies the highest level of trial excellence. Mr. Stern, a shareholder at Lawrenceville’s Stark & Stark, concentrates his practice on traumatic brain injury.
NONPROFIT
John Kelly will succeed Dick Scribner as president and CEO of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic upon Mr. Scribner’s retirement at the end of October.
Mr. Kelly joined RFB&D in 1985 as manager of library services and earned a series of promotions based on his successful implementation of programs that not only increased RFB&D’s membership, but also expanded RFB&D’s network of partners among agencies and organizations serving people with print disabilities. This enhanced profile has enabled RFB&D to better serve its growing membership by preserving or advancing legislation in the important areas of copyright and fair use, digital rights and intellectual property protection.
Mr. Kelly resides in Lawrenceville with his wife and two children.
Katherine Hatton of Pennington has been named vice president, general counsel and secretary of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Ms. Hatton is currently vice president and general counsel of Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc., publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News. Before joining PNK in 1992, she was shareholder at the Philadelphia law firm now known as Kohn, Swift & Graf, where she focused her litigation practice on media issues, particularly First Amendment concerns.
She began her career as a reporter at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and graduated with honors from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor of science in journalism and a bachelor of arts in political science. She received her law degree from Case Western Reserve University and earned a master of studies in law degree from Yale Law School.
In addition to her professional work, she is on the board of Womens Way, a nonprofit organization that promotes women’s equality, safety, self-sufficiency and reproductive freedom by supporting more than 40 women-led agencies in the Philadelphia region, and the Pennsylvania Economy League, a nonprofit public policy research and development organization.
Presbyterian Homes and Services has appointed Stuart D. Sendell and Mary Ann Christopher to its board of directors.
Mr. Sendell, vice president of PW Funding of Jersey City, brings to PHS an extensive understanding of real estate markets, finance and funding.
Ms. Christopher, president and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey, bring with her over 25 years of healthcare experience in both a hands-on and executive capacity.
Presbyterian Homes and Services Inc., based in Princeton, is a not-for-profit non-sectarian provider of retirement housing and health care services, including full-service senior living, assisted living and affordable housing communities.
RETAIL
Maria Marfuggi of Princeton was recently awarded Big Enough Clothes’ 6,000 Club Award for sales of over $6,000 during the spring/summer season. Big enough clothes designs and manufactures European-inspired clothing for children up to 12 years of age. Customers can view and purchase by personal appointment at (609) 924-4376.