{"id":93826,"date":"2025-08-12T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=93826"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:43:40","slug":"utmc-celebrates-staff-with-employee-appreciation-summerfest-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_12_2025\/utmc-celebrates-staff-with-employee-appreciation-summerfest-2025","title":{"rendered":"UTMC Celebrates Staff with Employee Appreciation Summerfest 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Wisniewski, an X-ray technologist at the University of Toledo Medical Center, plays mini golf during Thursday\u2019s annual Employee Appreciation Summerfest 2025 as UTMC Chief Operating Officer Russell Smith looks on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93827\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Summerfest-2025-NEWS-08072025-9614.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Wisniewski, an X-ray technologist at the University of Toledo Medical Center, plays mini golf during Thursday\u2019s annual Employee Appreciation Summerfest 2025 as UTMC Chief Operating Officer Russell Smith looks on.\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Summerfest-2025-NEWS-08072025-9614.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Summerfest-2025-NEWS-08072025-9614-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kim Koesters, director of administrative operations in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, shares a hug with Dr. Carolina Wishner, an associate professor and director of didactic education in the Physician Assistant Studies Program in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93828\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Summerfest-08072025-9626.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Koesters, director of administrative operations in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences, shares a hug with Dr. Carolina Wishner, an associate professor and director of didactic education in the Physician Assistant Studies Program in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Summerfest-08072025-9626.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Summerfest-08072025-9626-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UToledo President James Holloway chats with Employee Appreciation Summerfest attendees and poses with winners of the event\u2019s first rib-off, from left, Bryna Benninghoff, first place; Ken Fry, second place; and Jamie Easter, third place.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93830\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/James-Holloway-Summerfest-08072025-0119.jpg\" alt=\"UToledo President James Holloway chats with Employee Appreciation Summerfest attendees.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/James-Holloway-Summerfest-08072025-0119.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/James-Holloway-Summerfest-08072025-0119-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93831\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/James-Holloway-Riboff-08072025-9990.jpg\" alt=\"UToledo President James Holloway poses with winners of the event\u2019s first rib-off, from left, Bryna Benninghoff, first place; Ken Fry, second place; and Jamie Easter, third place.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/James-Holloway-Riboff-08072025-9990.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/James-Holloway-Riboff-08072025-9990-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From left, Dan Barbee, chief executive officer of UTMC, poses for a photo with Bree Meinzer, UTMC managed care manager, and Holly Smith, UTMC ambulatory care pharmacy director.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-93832\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dan-Barbee-08072025-0183.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Dan Barbee, chief executive officer of UTMC, poses for a photo with Bree Meinzer, UTMC managed care manager, and Holly Smith, UTMC ambulatory care pharmacy director.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dan-Barbee-08072025-0183.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dan-Barbee-08072025-0183-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/08_12_2025\/utmc-celebrates-staff-with-employee-appreciation-summerfest-2025\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08072025-9614-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Karen Wisniewski, an X-ray technologist at the University of Toledo Medical Center, plays mini golf during Thursday\u2019s annual Employee Appreciation Summerfest 2025 as UTMC Chief Operating Officer Russell Smith looks on.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Thursday\u2019s annual event at Health Science Campus featured games, activities and, for the first time, a rib-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":93835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1,7,63],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93851,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93826\/revisions\/93851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}