KELSEY MOLLURA has joined Carthage Area Hospital as its latest primary-care provider at Carthage Family Health Center in Carthage.
She received her bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Duquesne University and her master’s degree in physician assistant studies from Arcadia University.
Previously, Mollura worked in an internal medicine/geriatric office in Pittsburgh and in an ENT/sleep medicine office in Greenbelt, Maryland.
FORTUS HEALTHCARE RESOURCES
Fortus Healthcare Resources has appointed ANDY BARBERIO as director of sales and development.
He started at Fortus in 2007 as project coordinator. He soon assumed an account-executive role in the Dialysis Division.
In 2014, Barberio took on the challenge of leading the Ambulatory and Perioperative Division.
OSWEGO HEALTH
Two psychiatrists, OMAR COLON, M.D., and BENTLEY STROCKBINE, M.D., PH.D., recently joined Oswego Health’s Behavioral Health Services (BHS) Department.
Colon has completed a four-year psychiatry residency program at Bergen Regional Medical Center in New Jersey. He was named chief resident of the center’s outpatient clinic during his third year of residency and in his fourth year of residency, he was named chief resident of academics.
Colon has extensive training in child and addiction psychiatry as well as in different psychotherapy modalities. He earned his medical degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana, located in Santo Domingo and obtained his undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Strockbine will provide outpatient care to residents ages 18 and older at Oswego Health’s BHS facility on Bunner Street in Oswego. He recently completed a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at Upstate Medical University and fulfilled his four-year residency in psychiatry at Stony Brook University.
Strockbine earned his medical degree at St. George’s University School of Medicine on the island of Grenada. Along with earning a medical degree, Strockbine has a doctorate of philosophy in molecular and cellular pharmacology from Stony Brook University. He also earned his undergraduate degree in pharmacology at Stony Brook.
ST. JOSEPH’S PHYSICIANS FAMILY MEDICINE
St. Joseph’s Physicians Family Medicine has hired DENISE LOUGEE for its Radisson Health Center location in Baldwinsville. She received her master’s degree in physician-assistant studies from Le Moyne College, and her bachelor’s degree in psychology, with minors in chemistry and health-care missions, from Harding University in Arkansas. Lougee has practiced as a physician assistant in a family care setting for seven years, her most recent appointment was at Village Family Care in Baldwinsville.
Her experience includes family practice management at Joseph Lorenzetti Family Practice in Seneca Falls, and as an urgent-care provider at Northeast Medical Center Urgent Care in Fayetteville. Her extensive clinical training includes: primary care; emergency medicine, and urgent care; general, orthopedic, and gynecological surgery; geriatrics; behavioral health; cardiology; and obstetrics and gynecology. In 2004, Lougee, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, provided health-care services to nearly 7,000 patients in Zambia in Africa, as a participant in a medical mission trip.
SYRACUSE ORTHOPEDIC SPECIALISTS
Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists recently hired JUSTIN A. IORIO, M.D., to its Neck & Back team. He is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon specializing in the management of complicated spinal deformities, degenerative and arthritic conditions, infections, and fractures. Iorio earned his medical degree at SUNY Upstate Medical University, and completed an orthopedic residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.
He has completed a fellowship in spinal surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, where he was accepted into the Cobb Fellowship, which focuses on the treatment of scoliosis.
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