USLabs Appoints Contracting Manager

Connie K. Warlick has been appointed to the newly created position of director of managed care contracting for USLabs in Irvine. She was previously national director of managed care contracting for Gambro Healthcare and before that was a divisional director of managed care services for Charter Medical Corp.

* Victoria Curtin has been appointed director of the Women’s Opportunities Center at UC Irvine. She has been acting director for the past year.

* Melanie Webber has been named director, public relations, for Autobytel.com in Irvine. She had been vice president, public relations, at RBI Communications Inc., Autobytel’s public relations firm.

* Marie Dickens has joined Berryman & Henigar as marketing manager in the Santa Ana office. She was formerly senior associate in charge of marketing at JHTM & Associates.

* Paul Rianda has been named vice president and general counsel of E-Commerce Exchange in Irvine. He was formerly an attorney with Kring and Brown in Irvine, where he served as the company’s outside general counsel for four years.