Southwest Medical added two new health care providers. Malay Him, APRN, joins the Nellis Healthcare Center location (420-560 N. Nellis Blvd.) and specializes in adult medicine. Dr. Mazia Shafi joins the Oakey Healthcare Center location (4750 West Oakey Blvd.) and specializes in neurology.
Jewish Nevada, a nonprofit organization that serves as the representative organization for the more than 70,000 Jews in Nevada, announced its new board members. Hannah Alterwitz, Justice Michael Cherry, Susan Nissenbaum, Ilana Shapiro, Scott Stolberg and Elimelech Tennenbaum joined the board.
Desert Radiology hired neuroradiologist Dr. Alan True. True specializes in diagnosis and characterization of abnormalities of the central and peripheral nervous system, spine and head and neck. True devoted extra time during his schooling to extracurricular activities that helped others, including participating in a medical mission trip to Belize to assist physicians in delivering field and hospital-based clinical services to low-income and underserved populations.
The Neon Museum recently announced Lana Morano as its new director of finance. She joins the museum from Nevada nonprofit The Shade Tree, where she worked as director of finance. Before moving to Las Vegas in 2021, she served as treasurer for the North Dakota Museum of Art. Over her 20-year career, Morano has worked as a controller/director of finance in the fields of nonprofit, nutrition, automotive, apparel and trucking.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck announced that J. Brin Gibson has returned to the firm as a shareholder in the firm’s Las Vegas office. Gibson left Brownstein in 2020 when former Gov. Steve Sisolak appointed him to serve as chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, where he was responsible for regulating all aspects of the state’s gaming industry. While at the board, Gibson led the state’s efforts to modernize its sports wagering regulations. He also worked with board leadership to develop the state’s first cybersecurity regulations for the gaming industry.
Gov. Joe Lombardo announced several board and commission appointments. Brian Krolicki was appointed to the Nevada Gaming Commission, Adriana Guzmán Fralick to the Cannabis Compliance Board, and Donna Bath to the Commission on Judicial Selection. Krolicki, former state treasurer and lieutenant governor, will fill a vacant seat on the gaming commission. Guzmán Fralick, a Reno-based attorney, has an extensive record of public service, having previously served as legal counsel to the Nevada Commission on Ethics, general counsel to former Gov. Jim Gibbons, assistant general counsel to the Nevada Public Utilities Commission and executive secretary to the Nevada Gaming Control Board and Nevada Gaming Commission. Bath, a former county clerk in White Pine County and court clerk to the 7th Judicial District, previously served as an economic development officer for the Northeastern Nevada Development Authority and served as a rural representative for former Sen. Dean Heller. Lombardo also announced his appointment of George Assad to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Assad previously served as a Las Vegas Municipal Court judge for nine years. Prior to being elected judge, Assad was a prosecutor in the Clark County District Attorney’s Office and later served as a private attorney representing civil and criminal cases. Additionally, Assad served as a commissioner at the Nevada Transportation Authority for over a decade. Lombardo also appointed Dwayne McClinton as director of the Office of Energy. McClinton previously served on Lombardo’s transition team.
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