Fort Bend Lifestyles and Homes Magazine Jul 2009: Business News 2

Attending the Cross Creek Ranch ribbon cutting are: (l-r, front row) Joy Dowell, Natalie Long, Cheryl Stalinsky, Rob Bamford, Donna Lamb, Lin Spear, Joel Marshall, Commissioner Andy Meyers, Gail Parker, Collins Pier, Josh Hilbe, Mike Magana; (back row) Keith Swallers, James Duke, Will Holder, Bob Hargarther, Joseph Wade, Tom Wilson and Tyler Broughton.

Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital has joined with The University of Texas Medical School at Houston Maternal-Fetal Medicine division to bring diagnostic testing, genetic counseling and specialized fetal care to Fort Bend County women with high-risk pregnancies.

Each Wednesday, a highly specialized team–composed of a physician with advanced training in maternal-fetal medicine, an ultrasonographer and a genetic counselor –provides care at Memorial Hermann Sugar Land. Women need a referral from an obstetrician.

The Maternal-Fetal Medicine Clinic is the only one of its kind in Fort Bend County and a natural outgrowth of the hospital ’s expansion of women’s and children’s services.

“Having the UT Maternal-Fetal Medicine Clinic at our hospital enables us to provide an even higher level of care to Fort Bend County women so they don ’t have to drive to the Texas Medical Center,” said Steven Weber, chief patient care officer at Memorial Hermann Sugar Land.

Among the specialized tests offered at the clinic are 3-D and 4-D comprehensive and targeted fetal ultrasounds, amniocentesis, Doppler studies, fetal biophysical profiles and non-stress tests.

Memorial Hermann Sugar Land, 17500 West Grand Parkway South, Sugar Land; 281-725-5000.

The University of Houston-Victoria announced the winners of the Spring 2009 Master of Business Administration Conference.

This semester, 55 students in the capstone course of the MBA program analyzed national retailer PetSmart. Teams utilized everything they learned during the course of their studies to find challenges and opportunities faced by the retailer and come up with the best strategies to address them. The teams presented their findings and were judged by a panel of faculty members and alumni on criteria including subject knowledge, quality of their speaking skills, teamwork and quality and use of visual aids.

Winning top honors were Marcus Northrup of Sugar Land, Yuri Curtis of Houston, Asif Kaba of Stafford and Francisco Izaguirre of Dickinson.

The Johnson Development Corp. has merged its custom sales teams from Sienna Plantation and Riverstone. The trio of industry veterans—Jack MacDonald, Paula Moss and Nancy Simmons—will show custom homes and properties in both communities, working with buyers, Realtors and builders.

Buyers also can take comfort in the expertise of the three sales professionals, all licensed Realtors who have been lauded numerous times for their professionalism.

MacDonald has earned Custom Sales Person of the Year honors during the Greater Houston Builders Association ’s PRISM awards and through the statewide National Sales and Marketing Council competition. He has more than 30 years of custom home experience, primarily in Fort Bend.

A long-time Fort Bend resident, Moss has 15 years of experience in home sales. She has been awarded a Graduate Realtors Institute designation by the National Association of Realtors and has won several awards for her performance, including being listed as one of Houston ’s top five new-home sales associates in 2003 by the GHBA. The previous year, Moss won a prestigious Star award from the Texas Association of Builders. In February, she was recognized as the top salesperson by the Sales and Marketing Council of the Greater Houston Builders Association.

Simmons has nine years of custom home experience, selling exclusively in Sienna. She has been awarded a Certified New Home Sales Professional designation by the National Association of Home Builders, is a member of the Million Dollar Guild of the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing and was honored as top salesperson in March by the Sales and Marketing Council of the GHBA.