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Milwaukee-based Park Bank has named Tahir Hassan chief information officer, a newly created position in which Hassan will guide the bank’s information technology vision and strategy as well as enhance service experience for bank customers through technology.

As close to 8,000 people descend upon Kohler, Wis., later this month for the 14th annual Kohler Food and Wine Experience, they will have an opportunity to sample dishes and learn about pairings from top culinary experts and TV personalities like Graham Elliot, Christopher Kimball and Geoffrey Zakarian.

Pizza Man, a longtime restaurant on the East Side of Milwaukee, plans to open a second location at the Mayfair Collection development in Wauwatosa.

Milwaukee-based Integrated Medical Partners, a full-service provider of profit-improvement solutions for medical practices, has hired Keith Chew as managing...

Free to Breathe, a Madison-based nonprofit organization dedicated to raising lung cancer research funding, is holding its fifth...

The Medical College of Wisconsin’s Center for AIDS Intervention Research has received a five-year, $8.7 million grant renewal from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Mental Health, which will fund its programs through its 25th year of existence.

John Flannery has been named president and chief executive officer of GE Healthcare, effective immediately. Flannery replaces John Dineen, who will leave the company.

Milwaukee-based Organic Research Corp. is one of five Wisconsin bioscience companies to be named winners of BIOforward’s 2014 Emerging Company Showcase, sponsored by The Center for Technology Commercialization, Madison Gas and Electric, and First Business Bank.

New research exploring the effectiveness of employer-to-employee benefit communication during open enrollment and beyond shows that 40 percent to 50 percent of consumers express dissatisfaction with content clarity, depth, variety, frequency and degree of personalization of employer healthcare benefit communications. Meanwhile, employers rated their communications to be nearly 20 percentage points more effective than consumers perceive them to be.

Watertown Regional Medical Center’s board of directors has selected LifePoint Hospitals to form a joint venture partnership that aims to “allow WRMC to thrive in the midst of the biggest wave of change in healthcare in half a century.” LifePoint was one of 23 hospital systems considered, including all regional systems in Wisconsin.