Melinda Dyer-Martin has joined Meldrum & Fewsmith Communications, Cleveland, as vice president, account planner.

Melissa Kime has joined Edge Healthcare Research, Inc., Nashville, as a project coordinator.

SDR, Inc., an Atlanta research firm, has added 10 staffers to expand its consulting and advanced analytics team. Jay Weiner, Steve Ballou and John Wurst have joined the firm as senior consultant, research methods. James McGee, William Randall Clark, Brian Griner and Reba Copeland have been named senior research associate. And Leslie Jones, Sheila Hall and Joe Utz have been named research associate.

George Fabian has retired as fulltime director of Audits & Surveys Worldwide’s International Division. Fabian will serve ASW on a part-time basis as a liaison to ASW’s international clients and affiliates. Allen Khorami has been named the new International Division director.

VMI Communications & Learning Systems, Inc., a Chicago firm providing international copy testing and market research, has added several new staffers: Vincent Bitetto has been named marketing and public relations coordinator; Elizabeth Lydon has been named project manager; Randal Ries has been named research analyst/new project coordinator; Frank Bavaro has been named data processing/database coordinator; and Todd Gustafson has been named senior manager of quantitative research.

Kate Stubbs has been named global research director at The BrainWaves Group, New York City, an independent consulting and research subsidiary of The MacManus Group.

Jack Ward has joined Marketing Leverage, Inc., Glastonbury, Conn., as senior consultant.

Mike Itashiki has been promoted to marketing research manager at Lyrick Studios in Richardson, Texas, producer of TV shows Barney & Friends and Wishbone.

Hispanic & Asian Marketing Communication Research, Belmont, Calif., has added Carolina Echeverria and Horacio Segal to its staff of qualitative researchers.

Bruce Hall has joined Howard, Merrell & Partners, Raleigh, N.C., as vice president and director of marketing analysis.

Paul Root, president of the Marketing Science Institute, Cambridge, Mass., has been named to the advisory board of the University of Texas at Arlington’s master of science in marketing research degree program.

Gregory Wills has been named vice president and senior consultant for St. Louis-based Aragon Consulting Group, Inc.