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Lynne Geller of
Detroit has been
promoted to cor-
porate director of
government and
foundation rela-
tions for Hospice
of Michigan. In her
Geller
new role, Geller
develops strategic
plans to incorporate the education,
research, and outreach programs
of Hospice of Michigan's Maggie
Allesee Center for the Quality of Life
into the full spectrum of the orga-
nization's fundraising activities. She
oversees all of Hospice of Michigan's
corporate, government, and foun-
dation fundraising initiatives on a
local, statewide, and national scale.

Cheryl Soper,
controller and
director of finan-
cial operations
at the University
of Michigan, was
recently award-
ed the Daniel
Soper
D. Robinson
Accounting Award by the National
Association of College and
University Business Officials. She
is past chairman of the NACUBO
Accounting Principles Council and
daughter of Ruth and Robert Soper
of Livonia.

Steven Ribiat of
West Bloomfield
joined Brooks
Wilkins Sharkey
& Turco PLLC in
Birmingham. Ribiat
was previously
a shareholder at
Ribiat
Butzel Long, serv-
ing as a business litigation practice
group leader and was on the board of
directors. He is a graduate of Wayne
State University Law School, a fel-
low of the Litigation Counsel of
America, a member of the State Bar
of Michigan's Professional Ethics
Committee and was appointed to
the State Bar of Michigan Task Force
on Attorney-Client Privilege. Ribiat
is also listed in The Best Lawyers of
America for commercial litigation
and as a top lawyer in Metro Detroit
for business litigation in dbusiness.

Stacy M. Brand of
Wixom has joined
the University of
Michigan Health
System's Transplant
Center as clinical
outreach coordi-
nator. The posi-
Brand
tion was recently
created to enhance awareness of
the referral base and promote
Transplant Center growth. For the
past five years, Brand was the com-
munications projects coordinator at
Botsford Hospital. She has an MBA
from Wayne State University and a
BA from the University of Michigan.

David Steinberg
of Commerce
Township was
named by dbusiness
journal as the top
franchise lawyer
in Metro Detroit
for 2010. He has
Steinberg
been practicing in
franchise law for
30 years and specializes in creating
start-up franchise systems, licensing
arrangements and franchise litiga-
tion and arbitration. His office is in
Bingham Farms.

Beaumont sur-
geon Rachel S.
Rohde has been
named a recipi-
ent of the 2011
Ruth Jackson
Orthopaedic
Society and
Dr. Rohde
Zimmer Grant
for research
related to women's musculoskeletal
health. Rohde will use the award
of $30,000 to continue the study of
"Genetic and Molecular Bases for
Gender Difference in Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome." Carpal tunnel afflicts
females to males in a ratio as high
as 9:1. Rohde is a board-certified
orthopedic surgeon with additional
specialty training in hand, wrist
and elbow surgery and is a member
of the Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery at Beaumont Hospital in
Royal Oak.

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