DIANE ZENI DEFERRANTE, M.D.

DIANE ZENI DEFERRANTE, M.D., has joined the palliative medicine department at Crouse Health. Most recently, she split her time between Cortland Regional Medical Center, where she practiced inpatient palliative medicine and geriatric medicine, and Hospicare of Cortland County, where she was associate medical director. Prior to relocating to Central New York two years ago, deFerrante spent her entire career working for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California. She spent many years as medical director for Kaiser Permanente’s home-based hospice and palliative medicine program. She received her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and completed her family medicine residency at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in California.