Pediatrician, HILLIARY SISMONDO, M.D., has joined St. Joseph’s Health Primary Care Center – West location. She earned her M.D. from Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, and completed her residency in pediatrics at SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital in Syracuse.
Sismondo was a clinical research assistant in hematology/oncology at Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, Ohio.
FAHED SAADA, M.D. has joined St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse. As a neurohospitalist, he earned his M.D. from St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine in Grand Cayman, British West Indies.
Following his graduation from medical school, Saada completed his internal-medicine internship at Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital in Ohio; a residency in neurology at University of Florida College of Medicine in Jacksonville; and a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
As a neurology fellow at the University of Rochester, Saada received the Neurology Fellow Teaching Award in 2016 in recognition of an “exceptional instructor who has made extraordinary contributions to resident teaching.”
NISHITH AMIN, M.D. has joined St. Joseph’s Physicians and its team of cardiovascular specialists as an interventional cardiologist. He is a fellowship-trained interventional cardiologist. He earned his doctorate in medicine from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School at the University of London in England.
Amin completed his internal-medicine residency, held the role of chief resident, and was a cardiology fellow at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. He completed a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania and worked over a decade as an interventional and general cardiologist at New York Heart Center following fellowship.
Prior to joining St. Joseph’s Physicians, Amin was medical director of the Heart and Vascular Institute at Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira.
Additionally, he acted as director of the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab as an interventional cardiologist, and also performed non-invasive cardiology services.
SYRACUSE ORTHOPEDIC SPECIALISTS
Syracuse Orthopedic Specialists (SOS) recently hired MICHAEL G. FITZGERALD, M.D., to its Hand & Wrist and Shoulder teams. He is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the upper extremity including trauma, arthritis, tendinopathies, soft tissue disorders, nerve compression disorders, and ligamentous injuries.
Prior to joining SOS, Fitzgerald completed a fellowship at the Indiana Hand to Shoulder Center in Indianapolis. Before that, he completed his orthopedic residency at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in science from Le Moyne College, and earned his medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University.
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