Anissa Speight, ultrasound supervisor at Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital, has been selected as Cy-Fair’s 2010 Tenet Hero, Tenet’s highest award for employees.

Speight is the go-to person for fetal ultrasounds at Cy-Fair Hospital after her son’s heart defect led to a passion for all parents and children with heart defects. She spearheaded a change in hospital protocol so that obstetric ultrasounds would include complete cardiac anatomy. This expanded ultrasound can help alert physicians if a fetus is in trouble. Speight serves on the national board of directors and chairs the medical advisory board for It’s My Heart, a national organization for congenital heart defects.
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Mary Jadloski, director of high school curriculum and instruction at Cypress Fairbanks ISD, has been named the assistant superintendent for secondary curriculum and instruction.

Jadloski began her career in education as a math teacher and team leader at Arnold Middle School in 1979. She also served as a math teacher and team leader at Jersey Village High School and Langham Creek High School.
She joined the district administrative team in 1995 as the secondary math coordinator and later moved to the director of secondary special programs and services. She has served as the director of high school curriculum and instruction for the past five years.

Jadloski received her Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and education from the University of St. Thomas and her Master of Education in Supervision from Sam Houston State University.
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Donna Guthrie, former principal at Swenke Elementary School, is the new assistant superintendent for elementary school administration. at Cypress Fairbanks ISD.

Guthrie has 23 years of experience in the educational field. After teaching in Deer Park ISD for five years, Guthrie came to Cy-Fair ISD in 1992 as a fifth-grade teacher at Metcalf Elementary School. She taught two years at Metcalf before being named assistant principal, serving in that role through 1998. She then served four years as an assistant principal at Millsap Elementary School, and in 2002 was named principal at Ault. She then opened Swenke Elementary School in August 2009.

Guthrie received her Bachelor of Science in Education from Sam Houston State University and her Master of Science in Administration from the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
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Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital was awarded accreditation from the American College of Radiology for a number of its diagnostic imaging services.

The following imaging modalities at Cy-Fair received the accreditation: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computed Tomography, Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, Stereotactic Breast Biopsy, General Ultrasound, Obstetric Ultrasound and Gynecological Ultrasound.

The ACR awards accreditation to facilities for the achievement of high practice standards after a peer-review evaluation. Evaluations are conducted by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. They assess the qualifications of the personnel and the adequacy of facility equipment. The surveyors report their findings to the ACR’s Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report.
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Bridgeland’s home sales hit an all-time high in April. Sales in the northwest Houston community rose 160 percent during the first four months of 2010 compared with the same time frame last year.

“This is great news,” said Peter C. Houghton, vice president of master-planned communities. “Our builders made a significant investment in Bridgeland earlier this year by building dozens of inventory homes. It was obviously a smart move, as buyers have been attracted by the availability of homes in varying price ranges and the generous amenity package we offer in Bridgeland.”

Bridgeland was ranked sixth among Houston-area master-planned communities for first-quarter sales, according to Metrostudy, a national housing market research firm.
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Becky Cook and Jessica Lilly Hughes, both administrators at Cy-Fair ISD, have been selected to serve on the National Council on Digital Citizenship and Creative Content.

Cook, director of instructional technology, and Hughes, coordinator of library and media services, will serve on the council, which aims to understand and address K-12 school systems’ needs to teach appropriate, educational, responsible and fair usage of digital content that students interact with every day.

The council, made possible by Microsoft sponsorship, includes approximately 50 educators and administrators across the nation.

“Digital citizenship and the rights associated with creative content shared on the internet are important issues that students and school districts alike must understand,” Hughes said. “I am excited to participate in a national dialogue around these emerging issues.”
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Tarang Bery, M.D., an anesthesiologist on medical staff at Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center Hospital, received a Patients’ Choice Recognition Award from Consumer Research for the second year in a row. Dr. Bery has been on staff at CFMCH for 10 years.

This honor reflects the difference Bery has made in his patients’ lives through the exceptionally high praise granted to him by his patients. Each month, patients across the United States rate various components such as bedside manner, doctor-patient face time, degree of follow-up, courtesy of office staff, and overall opinions. From the more than 720,000 active doctors in the nation, less than 6 percent are awarded this high esteem from patients.
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Robin McGlohn, coordinator of staff development at Cypress Fairbanks ISD, has been named the director of staff development.

McGlohn started her career in education as a life science teacher in the Clark County School District in Las Vegas. She also served as a new teacher induction trainer, service-learning center facilitator and coordinator of safe and drug-free schools in Clark County.

She joined Cy-Fair ISD in 2003 as a science teacher at Thornton Middle School and later served as an at-risk helping teacher and assistant principal at Thornton. She has been with the staff development department for the past five years.

McGlohn received her Bachelor of Science in Education and Master of Education in Educational Leadership from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.