Two new businesses: Medical Imaging on Mercer Island and Lice Knowing You
Two new businesses have opened on Mercer Island in the past several months.
Lice Knowing You, owned by Nancy Gordon, and located at 9725 S.E. 36th St., Suite 100, and Mercer Island Medical Imaging at 9655 S.E. 36th St., Suite 107, opened recently.
Lice Knowing You is a lice removal company — the first in the state. The company uses the Shepard Method of Strand by Stand nit removal to remove head lice. The salon is open seven days a week, by appointment only, from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sundays by appointment only. Treatments are $95 an hour, including two free intensive lice checks. Discounts are available for families of three and more.
According to the company’s Web site, www.liceknowingyou.com, the average treatment takes about an hour and a half to two hours to complete, depending on the person’s hair and severity of infestation.
Lice Knowing You also provides in-home lice removal, as well as removal and prevention products. For more information, contact the company at (206) 910-3615.
Mercer Island Medical Imaging also recently opened on the Island. The company currently offers MRI screening and in the future will be able to do CAT scans as well. The office is directed by Dr. Lawrence Tang. For more information, visit http://mi-medicalimaging.com or call 232-1002.
Mercer Island resident named executive director of Brain Injury Association of Washington
Mercer Island resident Deborah Crawley has been appointed as the new executive director of the Brain Injury Association of Washington (BIAWA).
Crawley has more than 20 years of experience at nonprofit organizations such as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Comprehensive Health Education Foundation, and the Millionair Club Charity, where she was most recently the director of communications and development. She has lived on Mercer Island for 14 years.
“Deborah brings an extensive background in nonprofit leadership and marketing communications,” said Jason Barber, president of the Board of Directors. “All important when we face the tasks of combining our role as a leader in concussion prevention in Washington state and nationally, demonstrated by our role in passage of the Zackery Lystedt Law, with being the voice in this state for brain injury survivors and their caregivers. We need to take the silent out of the silent epidemic of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and make sure these important health issues are addressed.”
More than 20,000 Washington residents annually sustain a TBI. With the passage of the Zackery Lystedt Law in Washington, this year’s national focus is on preventing concussions in youth sports.
Covenant Shores senior vice president receives Medallion Award from SPU
Rebecca N. Townsend, the senior vice president of Covenant Retirement Communities, was presented with Seattle Pacific University’s Medallion Award on Jan. 28 at the alumni awards luncheon.
The annual award is granted to alumni who have “given outstanding service to Seattle Pacific University, his/her community and chosen profession,” and whose contributions “are more focused and more locally recognized,” according to a press release.
Townsend was chosen to receive the award for her lifetime efforts, particularly her 20-plus years of service to senior adults in faith-based Covenant Retirement Communities. Currently senior vice president for strategy and affiliations, Townsend previously served as vice president of marketing, vice president of strategic development and vice president of project development. She was responsible for bringing CRC’s project development subsidiary, Covenant Solutions, from concept to well-recognized corporation. Townsend is also executive resource for strategy development at CRC’s parent corporation, Covenant Ministries of Benevolence.
A resident of Bellevue and a member of the Mercer Island Covenant Church, Townsend graduated with a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Seattle Pacific University. She also has an MBA and a master’s of project development from Keller Graduate School of Management.
Islander named King County Realtor of the Year
Mercer Island realtor Jason Watabe has been named as the realtor of the year for 2009 by the Seattle King County Realtors. Nine other individuals were also given special awards.
Watabe was singled out for Realtor of the Year accolades for his extraordinary service to SKCR over the past three years, and for his ground breaking work in forging international real estate relationships on behalf of the association.
During 2009, Watabe, who was born in Japan, served as the NAR president’s liaison to all four of Japan’s national real estate associations. In addition to chairing SKCR’s International Real Estate Council and being the 2008 president of SKCR, he serves as president of the Washington Chapter of the Asian Real Estate Association of America.
He started his real estate career in 1983 and is currently affiliated with the Mercer Island office of John L. Scott, Inc.
Mercer Island doctor named president of World Gastroenterology Organization
Mercer Island resident Richard Kozarek, M.D., has been named president of the World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO) — the second president from America since the organization’s founding in 1959.
Kozarek is the executive director of the Digestive Disease Institute at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, where he has been a member of the Section of Gastroenterology since 1983. He is also a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Washington. The WGO represents more than 50,000 individual members worldwide as a federation of 109 national societies and four regional associations of gastroenterology.
Kozarek has authored seven books and written more than 400 scientific papers, reviews and editorials.
