NEW ORLEANS
Adnan B. Virani has been hired as senior vice president of capital markets and investor relations for HRI Hospitality.
Virani recently served as director of investor relations at FD Stonewater. He previously was head of consultant relations and institutional strategist for Truist Financial Corporation.
He earned a bachelor's in management from Georgia Institute of Technology and a master's in management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Kelly Smith has joined Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann as an associate.
She earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia, a master's from Portland State University and a law degree, magna cum laude, from Tulane University Law School. Smith was managing editor of the Tulane Law Review.
BATON ROUGE
Racheal Hebert has been named executive director of The Red Shoes, a Baton Rouge nonprofit dedicated to enriching the lives of women through spirituality, personal growth, and community.
Hebert has more than 15 years of nonprofit leadership experience. 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.
Winstead has more than two decades of experience with nonprofit fundraising. She spent 10 years as president and CEO of the Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation and held leadership roles with the American Heart Association Virginia Affiliate and the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
She earned a bachelor's in marketing from Texas Tech University.
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Dr. Hana Safah and Dr. Nakhle Saba have joined the Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute.
Safah and Saba will lead the hematologic malignancy cell therapy program. The program provides medical management of blood cancers and blood disorders, clinical trials related to blood cancer and adult stem cell/bone marrow transplants.
Safah earned a medical degree from American University of Beirut. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Greater Baltimore Medical Center and a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at the University of Florida. Safah served as the medical director of heme malignancy and stem cell transplantation at Tulane School of Medicine.
Saba earned his 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 served as a professor at Tulane for the past 10 years, researching, teaching and treating blood cancers.
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Dr. Stephanie Waldrop has joined the faculty of Pennington Biomedical Research Center as an assistant professor in clinical science.
Waldrop comes from Children's Hospital of Colorado, where she held the pediatric obesity and clinical nutrition fellowship at the University of Colorado-Anschutz Campus.
She earned a bachelor's from Johns Hopkins University, a master's in public health from the University of Alabama-Birmingham and a medical degree from Wayne State University Medical School.