Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) announced that KAMALJEET BANGA, M.D., has joined its orthopedic team as a specialist in orthopedics and sports medicine. He has more than 15 years of extensive experience in orthopedics and has practiced in the U.S., Canada, and India. Dr. Banga’s career has been marked by a strong background in sports medicine, upper extremity, military, and trauma care in both university and community health-care settings. His insights and contributions are poised to significantly enhance the range of services and capabilities offered by the CMH orthopedic practice. Dr. Banga completed his fellowship in orthopedic surgery, upper extremity, and sports medicine at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Additionally, he holds a fellowship in orthopedic sports surgery from the University of Western Ontario in Ontario, Canada. 

Rome Health announced that urology specialists JEFFREY SEKULA, M.D. and DANIEL WELCHONS, M.D. have joined its medical staff. The board-certified urologists are performing their surgical cases at Rome Health and have started providing urology call coverage for the hospital. Dr. Sekula and Dr. Welchon provide medical and surgical treatment of conditions that affect the urinary-tract system and reproductive organs, including genitourinary cancers.

Dr. Sekula has special training in genitourinary cancers, benign prostate disease, and kidney stone management, including metabolic stone evaluation. In addition, he has expertise in prosthetic urology, including penile implants, urinary slings and sphincters, and interstim implantation. Sekula earned his medical degree at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and completed his residency in urology at Duke University Medical Center in 2003.

Dr. Welchons’ specialties and interests are laparoscopic, robotic, and prosthetic surgery. He has particular interest in urologic oncology (including prostate, renal, bladder, penile, and testicular cancer), BPH, voiding dysfunction and sexual dysfunction. He earned his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Welchons completed his surgical internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and residency at the Harvard Program in urology. As a senior resident, he was an instructor for the New England Urology training course in robotic surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. MARGARET COOPER, D.O. has joined the Rome Health Pediatrics practice as a pediatrician. The addition of Dr. Cooper expands the pediatrics services of Rome Health to a team of five providers who work together as a team to provide care to children. She has been a pediatrician since 2012. Cooper is a graduate of Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine. 

Oswego Health has added EYAL KORD, M.D. to its medical staff, where he will join 270-plus providers, representing multiple specialty services across the community at the new Upstate Urology at Oswego Health. Dr. Kord is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Urology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. He has extensive experience in subspecialty urological oncology, as well as general urological care including enlarged prostates and stone disease. Dr. Kord is trained in minimally invasive techniques and is a daVinci certified robotic surgeon. With increasing demand for urological care, and the announced retirement of two local prestigious urologists, Upstate Urology and Oswego Health have partnered to provide access to the community. Originally from Israel, Kord earned his master’s degree in public health in from Tel Aviv University and his medical degree from Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem. Kord completed his post-graduate training as a fellow at the Society of Urologic Oncology at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. He has published dozens of research and scholarly articles on prostate cancer as his passion is in investigating public health and the impact of urological diseases.

Bassett Healthcare Network announced it has added ELIZABETH PELKOFSKI, M.D., gynecologic oncologist, to its Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is highly specialized in caring for patients with gynecologic cancers, including cancers of the ovary, fallopian tube, peritoneum, cervix, vagina, vulva, uterus, and endometrium, as well as gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (a rare form of cancer that forms when the placenta attaches to the uterus). Dr. Pelkofski also cares for patients who are at increased genetic risk for gynecologic cancers, patients with preinvasive disease, and those needing complex pelvic surgery, minimally invasive, and robotic surgery. She has expertise in chemotherapy, immunotherapy, clinical trials, radiation oncology, and palliative care for gynecologic cancers. Pelkofski earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. Her residency in obstetrics and gynecology took place at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed a fellowship in gynecologic oncology and a master’s degree in clinical research at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Pelkofski is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic oncology. 

Cumulus Media recently promoted BETH COUGHLIN to regional VP of Cumulus Media in Buffalo; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Syracuse. She currently serves as VP/market manager of Cumulus Syracuse and adds responsibilities for Cumulus Media’s five radio stations in Buffalo, five radio stations in Erie, and extensive digital offerings to her purview. Prior to joining Cumulus Media in October 2015, Coughlin had more than 20 years of broadcast and digital experience, starting with WSYR-TV and WUTR-TV in Syracuse and Utica, as well as in Albany.