People: Week of April 7, 2014

Monday, April 7, 2014, 5:00 am

Business Journal Staff Report

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John Farrow

John Farrow, president and chief executive officer ofFarrow Commercial Construction, received the Registered Resort Professional designation from the American Resort Development Association. The associations International Foundation includes professional development as one of its main tenets.

Christopher Hart of Santa Rosa-based Summit Technology Group earned the California general electrician journeyman certification. Mr. Hart previously worked in the Washington, D.C., area as a journeyman electrician. He became the newest service electrician for Summit Electrical Service, the commercial and residential service division.

Greg Wessel and Scott Baldwin, journeyman electricians at Summit Electric, a division of Summit Technology Group. completed a five-day intensive Lutron training in Pennsylvania, making them Homeworks QSqulaified byLutron Electronics. This course is the capstone for Lutrons residential system provider program, which has hands-on training on design, installation and programming of Lutrons residential lighting-control system, utilizing Homeworks QS, Serena and Sivoia QS insulating honeycomb shades.

Pedro Toledo

Pedro Toledo is now chief administrative officer of Petaluma Health Center, which serves southern Sonoma County. Previously, Mr. Toledo was director of community and government relations for the Redwood Community Health Coalition, a network of 17 community health centers and clinics for the counties of Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Yolo. He also administered county of Sonomas children health initiative, Healthy Kids Sonoma County, which works to ensure that every child has affordable health insurance and access to health care. He serves on the Covered Californias Outreach, Enrollment and Marketing Advisory Committee and is board president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Sonoma County.

Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation, part of the Sutter Health network, in February added Briant Smith, MD, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon in Santa Rosa. He received his medical degree from University of California, San Francisco and completed an internship in surgery and a residency in orthopedic surgery at UCSF Medical Center. He also holds a masters degree in pharmacology from University of California, Santa Barbara. Before coming to the foundation, Dr. Smith was a staff orthopedic surgeon with Redwood Regional Medical Group and at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Santa Rosa.

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People: Week of April 7, 2014