Licensed acupuncturist Mason Stabler, of West Lebanon, has joined Open Door Integrative Wellness in White River Junction to run its community acupuncture clinic. Stabler holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Kenyon College and a four-year master’s degree in acupuncture and Oriental medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. After graduating, Stabler ran a rural health clinic in Chanaute, Nepal. He is is a doctoral fellow at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine pursuing a doctorate in acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
Melissa Carlson, of Lyme, has joined the human resources department of Montpelier-based National Life in a senior role of associate vice president for talent management. Carlson most recently served as director of global learning and development at QuintilesIMS, a Durham, N.C.-based information and technology-enabled health care service provider, where she led the company’s global leadership development strategy and several initiatives as part of a recent merger. She earlier worked at Dimensions Data, a subsidiary of the information technology company NTT, Hypertherm and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
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