People news: Oswego Health adds Simon as general surgeon

OSWEGO, N.Y. — Oswego Health announced it has recently added general surgeon, Howard Simon, MD, to its medical staff.

Dr. Simon has been delivering surgical care at Oswego Health’s surgery center since July and is now formally joining the providers at Oswego Health’s surgical services office in suite 1300 at the Fulton Medical Office Building, the organization said in a news release.

Simon has provided surgical care in the Syracuse–area hospitals for most of his career. He earned his medical degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, as well as completed his surgical internship and residency there. His surgical trauma/critical care fellowship was completed at SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn.

Following his fellowship training, Dr. Simon returned to the Syracuse area and developed the area’s first level one trauma center at Upstate Medical University, which he oversaw for 15 years. He would later become among the first in the area to study advanced laparoscopic techniques, performing the first laparoscopic splenectomy, adrenalectomy, nephrectomy, and gastric bypass in Syracuse, Oswego Health said. He led Upstate’s minimally invasive program for many years. In addition to introducing these “cutting-edge care” programs, he began Upstate’s bariatric surgery program and served as its director for 15 years.

Simon’s wife is an endocrinologist at the Syracuse VA Center and the Joslin Center. The couple has three grown daughters, one of whom is in her second year at Upstate Medical University.

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