new orleans
Adnan B. Virani has been hired as HRI Hospitality’s senior vice president of capital markets and investor relations.
Ms. Virani most recently served as Director of Investor Relations for FD Stonewater. Previously, he served as Head of Consulting and Plan Strategist at Truist Financial Corporation.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in business administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Kelly Smith has joined Stone Pigman Walther Wittman as an associate.
She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, her master’s degree from Portland State University, and her law degree, magna cum laude, from Tulane University School of Law. Mr. Smith was the editor-in-chief of the Tulane Law Review.
Baton Rouge
Rachel Evert has been named executive director of Red Shoes, a Baton Rouge nonprofit dedicated to enriching the lives of women through spirituality, personal growth, and community.
Ebert has more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit leadership. She is the founder and former CEO of Sexual Trauma Awareness and Response (STAR), a resource for survivors of sexual violence.
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Jennifer Winstead has been hired by the Water Institute as vice president of mission advancement.
Mr. Winstead has over 20 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising. She spent 10 years as president and CEO of the Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation and has held leadership roles with the Virginia Chapter of the American Heart Association and the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Texas Tech University.
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Dr. Hana Safah and Dr. Nakhle Saba have joined Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute.
Mr. Safa and Mr. Saba will lead the hematologic malignancy cell therapy program. This program offers clinical trials related to the medical management of blood cancers and blood disorders, blood cancers and adult stem cell/bone marrow transplantation.
Ms. Safa earned her medical degree from the American University of Beirut. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Greater Baltimore Medical Center and her fellowship in hematology and oncology at the University of Florida. Safa served as medical director of heme malignancies and stem cell transplantation at Tulane School of Medicine.
Saba earned her medical degree from the Lebanese University in Beirut. He completed his internal medicine residency at East Tennessee State University and Tulane, and a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at Tulane. He has been a professor at Tulane University for the past 10 years and has been involved in blood cancer research, education, and treatment.
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Dr. Stephanie Waldrop has joined the Pennington Biomedical Research Center faculty as an assistant professor of clinical science.
Waldrop comes from Children’s Hospital Colorado and held a fellowship in pediatric obesity and clinical nutrition at the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus.
She received her bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, her master’s degree in public health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine.
