Robert Wasilewski, of Glenelg, an investment advisor with more than 25 years' investment management experience, has launched RW Investment Strategies, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families manage their own investments.

The firm offers hourly consulting and low-cost management services on a fee-only basis.

Wasilewski has managed funds for institutions, including pension funds and college endowments, as well as for high net-worth individuals. He most recently was an advisor for Baltimore-Washington Financial Advisors in Columbia.

For the past 10 years, he also has been a senior adjunct instructor at Howard Community College, teaching principles of macro and microeconomics along with online money and banking. He was named Outstanding Adjunct Faculty for the Social Sciences Division in 2004-2005.

Wasilewski holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Gilchrist Hospice Care named veteran health care administrator Catherine Y. Hamel, a resident of Marriottsville, as its new executive director.

Hamel has spent 25 years in the health care field, most recently as vice president of Infusion Operations for NeighborCare At Home, where she managed a staff of more than 250 employees and took on the added responsibility of helping to develop a pharmacy business for the hospice community.

Hamel holds a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Temple University, in Philadelphia.

Jeremiah P. O'Donovan, of Marriottsville, has been added to the board of trustees of the Howard Hospital Foundation.

O'Donovan is vice president of O'Donovan and Associates, an insurance firm.

Founded in 1992, the Howard Hospital Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization entrusted to provide philanthropic support of Howard County General Hospital: A Member of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Columbia.

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