St. Elizabeth Medical Center

JOHN FURNER has been named facilities plant operations manager at the St. Elizabeth Medical Center (SEMC) Campus of the Mohawk Valley Health System. He has been an SEMC employee since 1999, serving as an electrician. Since 2000, Furner has served as maintenance supervisor and was assigned to construction management. He received his associate degree in electrical service technology from Mohawk Valley Community College and in 1998, he became a journeyman electrician and received a master electrician license in 2008.

JATIN PATEL, M.D. has joined the St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency Program as a faculty member and has privileges at St. Elizabeth Medical Center. The Residency Program is an affiliate of SEMC and the Mohawk Valley Health System. He previously was employed as assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Southern Illinois University. Patel earned his medical degree from Ross University in Dominica, West Indies, and New Brunswick, New Jersey. He completed his family medicine residency at Southern Illinois University and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics, with minors in biology and chemistry, from the University of Illinois. Patel is board certified in family medicine.