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Flatley Read Inc., an environmental and community development services firm based in Schuylerville, hired Colin McKnight<\/b> as director of community development programs.<\/p>\nFlatley Read Inc., an environmental and community development services firm based in Schuylerville, hired Colin McKnight<\/b> as director of community development programs.<\/p>\n
McKnight, formerly the deputy director of the New York State Rural Housing Coalition, will be working with small municipalities across New York state on issues such as affordable housing, historic preservation and other challenges to thriving, vital neighborhoods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n A graduate of the College of St. Rose and Hudson Valley Community College, McKnight is a HUD-Certified HOME Program trainer\/compliance reviewer, a NeighborWorks-certified homebuyer group educator, and an experienced trainer and technical assistance provider in affordable housing development and preservation, economic development, and Main Street Revitalization. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He has worked with the Housing Assistance Council of Washington, D.C. on assessment and capacity-building work for HUD grantees in California, Wisconsin and Indiana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n McKnight has assisted communities to secure funding for historic preservation projects, tourism facilities, multifamily housing projects, single family rehabilitation, and nursing home expansion. He has also taught grant writing to community volunteers in partnership with USDA Rural Development.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n <\/span><\/span> \u00a0<\/span>LaFaver joins Saratoga Hospital from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, where she was an associate professor of neurology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Previously, she was the director of the movement disorders clinic as well as the Raymond Lee Lebby Chair in Parkinson\u2019s Disease Research at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.<\/p>\n After a residency in neurology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, LaFaver completed a fellowship in movement disorders at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She went on to complete a clinical and research fellowship at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n LaFaver earned her medical degree from Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany.<\/p>\n She is board certified in neurology. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, and a member of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. A founding member of the Functional Neurological Disorder Society, LaFaver also serves on the organization\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Flatley Read Inc., an environmental and community development services firm based in Schuylerville, hired Colin McKnight as director of community development programs. McKnight, formerly the deputy director of the New York State Rural Housing Coalition, will be working with small municipalities across New York state on issues such as affordable housing, historic preservation and other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":36634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personnel-briefs"],"yoast_head":"\r\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/09\/p-brief-lafaver-150x150.jpg\")
Movement disorder specialist Dr. Kathrin LaFaver <\/b>has joined Saratoga Hospital Medical Group \u2013 Neurology..<\/p>\n