GENEVA — The UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health Foundation board of directors has recently elected three new board members: Alexis Ogra, J. Nicole Taylor, and Diana Smith. Ogra serves chief of staff for New York State Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan in his Geneva office. She earned her bachelor’s degree in history from University at Buffalo. Ogra […]
GENEVA — The UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health Foundation board of directors has recently elected three new board members: Alexis Ogra, J. Nicole Taylor, and Diana Smith.
Ogra serves chief of staff for New York State Assemblyman Jeff Gallahan in his Geneva office. She earned her bachelor’s degree in history from University at Buffalo. Ogra is a member of the Town of Victor board.
Taylor, DO is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist at Finger Lakes Radiology in Geneva. She completed her residency in radiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. Prior to that, she completed her surgical internship at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. She attended medical school at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury.
Smith serves as the municipal client northeast director for MRB Group, located in Rochester. In 2004, she was elected Seneca Falls’ first female mayor, where she served two terms. Smith earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and humanities from Westminster College in Missouri. She is a former president of the New York Conference of Mayors, a founding member and current board president of the Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning, and a longtime supporter and volunteer at the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
The UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health Foundation board also elected the following officers: Joan Grela, chair; Susan Eisenhart, vice chair; Barbara Reese, secretary; Jose Acevedo, M.D., president; Trisha Koczent, treasurer, and Kim Ilacqua, executive director.
The mission of the Finger Lakes Health Foundation is to cultivate, secure, and steward philanthropic gifts to support the capital, programmatic, and endowment needs of the Finger Lakes Health system.
