Capital Rotary Club

George Bryan III is a PGA Professional and the Founder and Director of Instructions of the George Bryan Golf Academy.

George is a graduate of the University of South Carolina. He was named 1998 Carolinas’ PGA Junior Golf Leader of the Year and selected by Golf Digest as one of the Best Teachers in South Carolina for 2000 and 2001. He earned SC PGA Chapter Player of the Year honors in 2003 and played in the 1999 PGA Championship at Medinah and the 2004 MCI Heritage.

Picture courtesy of CIU

Richard K. Bogan, MD, FCCP visited the Capital Rotary club on Wednesday 6/14/17. Dr. Bogan is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and the Chairman and Chief Medical Officer of SleepMed Inc., both in Columbia, South Carolina. He is one of the founders of SleepMed, the largest sleep diagnostic company in the U.S.

Dr. Bogan received his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Alabama Hospitals and Clinics and his Pulmonary, Critical Care fellowship at the University of Alabama School of Medicine, both in Birmingham, Alabama.

Dr. Bogan is board certified in sleep medicine, pulmonary medicine and internal medicine with previous certification in critical care. He has served as the medical director for several hospital departments and serves on various business, community, and civic boards. He has dedicated the majority of his medical career to creating standards of excellence in sleep disease management. In addition to operating a Columbia-based, 9-bed, accredited sleep center that serves as their flagship operation and training site, he has been involved in numerous clinical research trials and has published numerous articles in sleep medicine. He has been a consultant to the pharmaceutical and device industry and has lectured in local, regional and national meetings.

This Wednesday, we had Tracie Broom talk about the Total Eclipse in August and what Columbia is doing for the event.

Tracie Broom is a public relations professional from Columbia, S.C., who develops and manages integrated communications campaigns, specializing in content development, social media, web strategy, customer experience and partnership building. Skilled in the art of getting the word out, she is passionate about introducing people to one another and spoke on the subject at TedXColumbiaSC in 2014.

Tracie worked as a professional writer, editor and event planner for 12 years in San Francisco, where she maintained a roster of clients ranging from Toyota and Hilton to Spa Magazine, Splendora, and Daily Candy SF. She is a graduate of Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Dance Choreography and Performance, and she was awarded a grant for studies at Harvard University.

Tracie is the marketing committee chair on the executive committee of the Foundation Board of the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, S.C. She recently rotated off of a term as board co-chair at Slow Food Columbia.

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