Business notes News-Chronicle Mike Christopherson recently joined Burnham Richards Advertising as an art director. He brings more than 10 years of brand advertising experience to the agency client roster that includes Nicolet National Bank, Wilderness Log Homes and Time Warner Cable. Christopherson most recently worked as an art director at Enzymatic Therapy N.E.W. Curative Rehabilitation Inc. has been accredited by CARF for a period of three years for its community employment, vocational evaluation, and organizational employment services, along with its outpatient medical rehabilitation and brain injury programs. N.E.W. Curative Rehabilitation, Inc., is a non-profit organization working to help people with their goals of independence. MTM Incorporated of Green Bay has received the 2004 Service Excellence Award from Konica Minolta. This award recognizes companies who enjoy extremely high customer satisfaction ratings and are dedicated to providing excellent technician training. Aurora Health Care has added a husband-and-wife team, Jason and Leah Nitke, to its staff of internal medicine physicians. Both completed medical school at Des Moines University and completed their internship and residency at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill. Beginning Thursday, Jason will see patients at the Aurora Health Center in De Pere while Leah's primary office will be at Aurora BayCare Medical Center. Aurora also announced that the American Board of Sleep Medicine has announced that Dr. James Gapinski has successfully completed the group's training and is now board-certified in sleep medicine Gapinski is the medical director of Aurora BayCare Medical Center's Sleep/Wake Center, a facility that has been treating patients with sleep disorders for the past two years. Prevea Clinic has added Leanne Donell Kirsch, Ph.D to its neurology department. Dr. Kirsch joins Gerald Bannasch, M.D., Heather Stanko, M.D., Jean Dill, APNP; Bonnie Groessl, APNP MSN; and Michael Sluss, M.D. at the Prevea Clinic Riverside site, and will start seeing patients in July. Dr. Kirsch is a licensed Clinical Neuropsychologist and Brain Injury Rehabilitation specialist with 11 years of experience. Catholic Family Life Insurance has named Brian Wondrash, Pattie Fasulo, Jennifer Szczytko and Al Wondrash as recipients of the society's President's Council Award for excellence in insurance sales. They provide service in the Green Bay-Appleton area through Custom Concepts Financial Group. Genevieve M. Daniels-Brown joined the MeadWestvaco Organization Development team in Richmond, Val., on June 14. In her role, she will provide project assistance in the areas of performance management, learning & development and succession planning. She is a 1992 graduate of Green Bay West High School. The Karma Group of Green Bay has been appointed agency of record for Manitowoc-based Cher-Make Sausage Company. Cher-Make is refocusing on the retail market after focusing on private-label manufacturing. Nsight Telservices has made several staff additions. At Cellcom, they include Ann Bliss, order-processing specialist; Steven Sieker, Ken Reilley and Jason Andreasen, customer service representatives; Angela Bani and Leah Turner, retail sales representatives and Heather Estrada, inside sales and customer retention team leader. At Northeast Telephone Company, they include Gary Hemb, locator and Jeremy McAlpine, installer/repairer. Thomas M. Herlihy, executive vice president of Green Bay Packaging, received the "Executive Eagle" safety award from the Pulp & Paper Safety Associations at their awards conference this month. The company was cited for its hazard recognition START training for supervisors, purchase of appropriate safety equipment and training, public support for safe facilities and the association and the company's work record. Bret S. Price has been appointed corporate controller at Associated Banc-Corp. Price previously was with Amsouth Bancorporation in Birmingham, Ala., where he was chief financial officer of Amsouth's commercial line.