2025 Excellence in Health Care: Doctor’s advocacy is the linchpin
Dr. Nassa Hanna founded and chairs the advocacy group End Lung Cancer Now, an initiative of IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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2025 Excellence in Health Care: Helping patients get the right therapies
During her time as Community Health Network’s vice president and chief pharmacy officer, Dawn Moore has dedicated herself to finding myriad ways to help patients quickly, safely and affordably obtain the medications they need.
2025 Excellence in Health Care: Reshaping how mental health care is delivered
The Ackerman Center was launched in March 2023 to help address the post-COVID bump in demand for mental health services by tackling a related problem—a significant shortage of mental health workers.
2025 Excellence in Health Care: Giving voice to patients’ experiences
Since 2018, Dr. Danielle Henderson has appeared roughly 100 times on local television, addressing numerous mental health concerns and discussing their impact on underserved communities.
2025 Excellence in Health Care: Doctor dedicates career to addiction
Dr. Timothy Kelly, chief medical director for addiction treatment and integrated recovery at Community Health Network, has devoted his entire professional life to working in addiction medicine.
Attorney Melissa Proffitt’s enthusiasm, endurance benefit community organizations
Because of her tireless devotion to Indiana’s economic and social betterment, IBJ has named Proffitt the 31st recipient of the Michael A. Carroll Award.
IU Indianapolis video-game lab gets museum designation
The Media Arts and Science Research Learning Arcade, or MARLA, at Indiana University Indianapolis has an ever-growing collection of some 550 vintage video games and 20 gaming consoles.
Q&A: Carmel native builds company by building community
How has Old Town Design Group consistently grown in spite of real estate market disruptions? And what is its plan for the future? Co-founder Justin Moffett addressed those and other questions.
Q&A with Graham Rahal: Race car driver is moving full speed ahead in business
How does someone who’s still on the racing circuit keep so many plates spinning? And why did he put this high-end automotive wonderland in Zionsville? Rahal addresses those and other questions.
A&E Preview: Introducing Ronan Marra, the new executive director of Storytelling Arts of Indiana
Marra’s arrival marks the first time in the organization’s 37-year history that it hasn’t been overseen by one of its co-founders: Ellen Munds, Nancy Barton and Bob Sander.
Carmel-based logistics firm plots exponential growth
Koola Logistics received approval from the Indiana Economic Development Corp. for $4.25 million in conditional EDGE tax credits to expand their payroll to 250 by the end of 2026.
Carmel siblings carry on swimming tradition as they seek Olympic bid
17-year-old Alex Shackell and 19-year-old Aaron Shackell will compete during the Olympic swimming trials at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Both have a chance to make the team.
USA Swimming men’s coach thrives under pressure
Anthony Nesty, who has a multi-decade career in collegiate and Olympic swimming, first as an athlete and now as a coach, will oversee the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Cooking oil recycler cleans up at IMS, Gainbridge
Filta Environmental Kitchen Solutions filters customers’ used cooking oil for reuse. It also cleans customers’ fryers and carts off used cooking oil to be recycled into biodiesel fuel.
Mickey Maurer Entrepreneur of the Year Award: ‘A great connector of ideas and people’
During its quarter century of existence, BCforward has become one of the nation’s largest Black-owned businesses, employing some 5,000 workers around the world.
Demand continues to outpace supply, but sales volume increase is expected
Experts say this year will see a continuation of the same pattern that’s governed the market since before the pandemic—too many buyers chasing not enough listings—with higher interest rates complicating the picture.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Jill Donaldson
Most common in people age 40 or older, essential tremor can cause involuntary shaking in pretty much any part of the body.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
Multidisciplinary teams composed of surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, pharmacists and others have worked to develop best practices for quick recovery from everything from open-heart procedures to gall bladder removal to bariatric surgery.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Riley Children’s Health/ Indiana University School of Medicine
For almost a century, it’s been possible to ameliorate the ravages of diabetes using insulin, but this is the first time it’s been stopped in its tracks—at least for a while.
2024 Health Care Heroes: Doctors Laurie Ackerman, Matthew Partain, Mitesh Shah and Satyan Sreenath
Obviously, there was no playbook for such a freak injury.