Dime Bank
Gary Schemel II, Dime Bank (SUBMITTED)
Gary Schemel II has been promoted to the position of assistant vice president. In his role, Schemel is responsible for the oversight of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and the fraud department. He is instrumental in designing, implementing and overseeing the BSA/AML compliance program, ensuring the bank’s adherence to relevant laws and regulations, and investigating potential suspicious activity.
Schemel joined the bank in September 2015 as a fraud specialist. In December 2021, he was promoted to BSA-fraud manager and, most recently, in December, he was elevated to BSA/AML fraud officer. This latest promotion to assistant vice president recognizes his significant contributions and expertise in this critical area.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting from King’s College. He has furthered his professional development by completing the PA Bankers Association’s Banking School in 2018 and is currently enrolled in the PBA Advanced School of Banking. Additionally, Schemel earned his BSA/AML Professional Certification from the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA)
Geisinger College’s School of Medicine
John Szarek, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (SUBMITTED)
Geisinger College of Health Sciences announced that John L. Szarek, BPharm, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and vice chair of curriculum, received the prestigious Edward Patrick Finnerty Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). Szarek will accept the award in person at the 29th annual IAMSE Conference in June in Calgary.
This honor is awarded to an IAMSE member who has demonstrated sustained involvement in and commitment to the advancement of the IAMSE through their many types of service to the organization at the “maximal level of performance.”
Szarek has been a member of IAMSE since 1999, contributing significantly to the organization’s growth and development through various leadership roles and scholarly activities. He served on the IAMSE board of directors from 2004-2006 and 2007-2013, including serving as secretary from 2012-2013. He has regularly contributed to the organization’s annual conferences, serving on several program committees and chairing the 2006 program.
The Wright Center
Jean Gauvin, Wright Center (SUBMITTED)
Evan Silvi, Wright Center (SUBMITTED)
McKenzie Taylor, Wright Center (SUBMITTED)
The Wright Center for Community Health has expanded its psychiatry services with the addition of an experienced psychiatrist, who is now offering office-based remote appointments for adults.
Dr. Jean Gauvin, who earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, will provide a full range of services to patients via office-based remote appointments five days a week. Additionally, he will work with colleagues across the Wright Center to continue integrating behavioral health and primary health services.
The Wright Center provides office-based remote visits to improve accessibility for individuals in underserved and under-resourced areas, reducing barriers to behavioral health care.
Gauvin completed his residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and has worked as a psychiatrist in several hospitals across Connecticut and at the Connecticut Department of Corrections.
The Wright Center for Community Health is expanding access to behavioral health care by hiring a psychiatrist who will provide office-based remote psychiatry appointments for patients of all ages, helping to address the region’s shortage of mental health specialists.
Dr. Evan Silvi, a graduate of Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, has joined the Wright Center to provide comprehensive psychiatric care. In addition to offering a full range of behavioral health services, he will collaborate with colleagues across the organization to further integrate mental health into whole-person primary health services, enhancing patient-centered treatment.
After completing his psychiatry residency training and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, Silvi worked for a decade as a staff psychiatrist at SwedishAmerican Health System in Rockford, Illinois. More recently, the Beloit, Wisconsin, resident has served as a psychiatrist at several locations throughout the United States, including in Harrisburg.
A second dentist who completed the postdoctoral residency training program at the Wright Center for Community Health has joined the nonprofit and is now accepting new patients at the Wright Center for Community Health Wilkes-Barre.
Dr. McKenzie Taylor provides comprehensive oral care services for all ages, including preventive, endodontic, periodontal, restorative, prosthetic and follow-up care, at the Wright Center’s largest dental clinic at 169 N. Pennsylvania Ave.
Taylor holds a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry and completed her postdoctoral Advanced Education in General Dentistry (AEGD) residency at the Wright Center for Community Health Scranton through an affiliation with NYU Langone Dental Medicine Postdoctoral Residency Program.
She will join Dr. Michael Regan at the dental clinic in Wilkes-Barre.