Al Devji, financial planner with Devji Wealth Planning Services, an office of MetLife, has recently earned the MetLife Lifetime President’s level of recognition. This is an honor given to only a handful of MetLife’s top producers who have qualified for the President’s Conference for either six consecutive years or any 10 years during his/her career. It recognizes the MetLife financial professional for his/her dedication to the highest standards of personal integrity, professionalism and customer service.
Devji has been a financial planner with MetLife for nearly 18 years and is dedicated to helping individuals make informed decisions about their financial well-being. He holds the Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow (LUTCF) and Charted Long Term Care designations. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Round Table.
For more information about Devji Wealth Planning Services, visit www.devjiwealthplanning. com.
John Hogan, Shrewsbury, a shareholder at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A., Woodbridge, has been named by NJBIZ as a member of the 2009 class of “Forty Under 40.” The awards program honors men and women working in New Jersey who have been making headlines in their field and who share a commitment to business growth, professional excellence and the community. Hogan focuses on criminal defense, civil rights litigation, administrative law and appellate matters. The law firm of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. has local offices in Woodbridge and Eatontown.
Anderson & Collins Inc. (ACCRINC), an independent clinical research site dedicated to full-service care, is looking for volunteers for its clinical trials. Trials that are available now are: osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis; migraine; menstrual migraine; osteoporosis; fibromyalgia; and hypertension and flu vaccine, according to Melissa Cardillo, M.H.A., vice president.
ACCRINC has been in operation in the central New Jersey area for over 14 years.
The research facility, founded by Marcia Collins, R.N., in 1995, works in collaboration with pharmaceutical company sponsors and Contract Research Organizations (CRO) to conduct clinical drug studies for various illnesses, as well as wellness and vaccine trials. Investigational medications or approved drugs seeking an added indication are tested on participants who meet the criteria for the specific study.
Interested participants are initially screened by phone and, if they qualify, are scheduled for appointments at the Edisonbased site. Study participants are monitored very closely by a primary investigator (physician) and clinical coordinator throughout the trial, followed by a carefully implemented informed-consent process.
Hours of operation include weekdays between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon.
All medical expenses related to the study, such as the physician’s time, the participant’s blood work and medication, are rendered free of charge, and eligible participants are compensated for their time and travel.
Volunteers who do not qualify for a clinical trial will be kept on the company’s database for future trials. The research firm’s website is www.accrinc.com.
Debbie Mazella has joined the WJRZ radio family. Mazella will be the new disc jockey from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on WJRZ (100.1 FM), a Greater Media radio station.
Mazella says she may have grown up in New York, but she has been addicted to playing ski ball on the boardwalks of the Jersey Shore since she was a little girl visiting her grandparents at their Ocean Grove summer home. Mazella moved to New Jersey five years ago.
Before joining the Greater Media family, Mazella, whose radio career began in 1994, worked at various radio stations in New Jersey and New York, holding such positions as assistant program director and music director, among others. She was even a traffic reporter for a New York station.
In 2008, Mazella was inducted into the FMQB (Friday Morning Quarterback, a prestigious radio trade publication) Hall of Fame, having been voted one of the top five music directors in a secondary market.
Mazella realized she wanted to be on the radio and around the music she loves as early as age 11. Besides radio and music, Mazella is passionate about her cats and stays involved with Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) fundraisers.
Mazella also does a lot of events with the March of Dimes in both New York and New Jersey, and usually emcees each year with Joe Causi of CBS-FM, New York.
With the addition of Mazella to mid days, Glen Kalina will move to the afternoon DJ position from 2 to 7 p.m., and Joe Stevens can be heard nights from 7 p.m. to midnight.
WRAT-FM and WJRZ-FM are radio stations of Greater Media Inc., which is the parent company of 23 AM and FM radio stations in the Boston, Detroit, Charlotte, New Jersey and Philadelphia markets. Greater Media also owns a group of weekly newspapers in central New Jersey and several telecommunications towers, located throughout the United States.