Mohawk Valley Health System

MELISSA SCHMIDT has joined Upstate Urology at Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) as a certified family nurse practitioner, where she will provide care to patients of all ages. Schmidt has more than 10 years of nursing experience at MVHS in inpatient post-operative care and vascular surgery. Schmidt earned her master’s family nurse practitioner degree from Utica College. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Jacksonville University in Florida.

SVETLANA PETROVETS, MD, has joined the MVHS Medical Group medical office in Washington Mills, where she provides primary-care services to patients of all ages. Petrovets earned her medical degree from the Grodno State Medical University in Grodno, Belarus. She performed her residency at the St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency Program in Utica. She also earned both her bachelor’s degree in nursing and her master’s nurse practitioner degree in from SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Marcy. Dr. Petrovets has eight years of experience as a pediatrician in her home country of Belarus. She began her career at MVHS as a registered nurse, where she worked for five years. After completing a year as a family nurse practitioner, she started her residency at the Sister Rose Vincent Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Petrovets is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. She is a member of the American Medical Association and American Academy of Family Physicians.