The Beads of Courage Program helps patients at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital’s Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders document and share their journey through the maze of childhood illness and treatment. Each bead represents a very specific event, from a chemotherapy treatment to a pet therapy visit to a needle stick, and everything in between. Every Beads of Courage strand is unique. The program, launched in 2010, is sponsored by Maureen’s Hope Foundation. For a photo album, visit
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Seven runners covered 26.2 miles Saturday, March 31 in a marathon relay for 13-year-old Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital patient Amelia Weed. The marathon began at Cayuga Community College in Auburn and runners finished at the children’s hospital in Syracuse. The event was organized by The Run 4 Life founder, Vin Gleason. Gleason’s own children were treated here and his organization raises funds for local children and families in need. For more information, visit
http://www.therun4life.org/
Kaushal Nanavati, MD, Upstate Medical University Family Medicine, spoke of his four pillars of wellness to a standing-room-only crowd of Upstate employees, faculty and students as part of National Public Health Week. Dr. Nanavati’s four pillars of wellness are: nutrition, physical exercise, stress management and spiritual wellness. He recommends seven to nine servings of vegetables each day, 30 to 60 minutes of exercise on most days, recognizing stressors you can and cannot control, and achieving peace by figuring out what is important to you.
Syracuse University basketball guard Scoop Jardine (#11) made a surprise visit to Upstate University Hospital patient Gordon Heagle. Heagle has been a patient since June 2011 and watched every Syracuse University basketball game from his hospital bed. Heagle and his family were overjoyed. Jardine also signed autographs for Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital patients. To see more pictures, visit
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Nobel Laureate Aaron Ciechanover, M.D., left, with Steven Goodman, Ph.D., Upstate vice president for research and dean of the College of Graduate Studies, spent two days on the Upstate Medical University campus, meeting with students and researchers and delivering a standing-room only presentation on his research. Ciechanover won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation that has revolutionized today’s approach to treating cancer.
Students and faculty from Upstate’s College of Health Professions’ Radiation Therapy Classes of 2012 and 2013 joined 2,000 participants in Syracuse University’s Relay for Life at the Carrier Dome. The event raises money for cancer research and helps fund free services for cancer patients. This year, more than 5,000 relay events will take place in more than 50 countries.
Paul Seale, chief operating officer of Upstate University Hospital, signs his name to a pledge encouraging Upstate employees to consider joining the New York state Donor Registry and raising awareness for the need for organ donation. Seale’s signature joined those of other area hospital leaders on the pledge. Upstate is the area’s only hospital providing kidney transplants. More than 270 individuals in Central New York are waiting for a kidney transplant.
Professional Bowling Association Hall of Fame bowler and stroke survivor Mark Roth, right, gives tips to participants at Upstate University Hospital’s Strikes Against Stroke event May 6 at Flamingo Bowl in Liverpool. Roth not only talked about bowling, but offered his insights on life as a stroke survivor. Roth suffered a stroke in 2009 and underwent extensive rehabilitation at Upstate. The event helped raise awareness of stroke and its warning signs as well as raise money for patient and family education programs.
Upstate Medical University will award 506 degrees and 18 professional certificates to graduates of its colleges of Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine and Nursing at its Commencement Sunday, May 20. Pioneering female surgeon Patrician Numann, MD, and physician and best-selling author Abraham Verghese, MD, will receive honorary degrees.
Julie Hyojung Lyou, who graduated from Upstate Medical University May 20, is the the first recipient of Upstate’s joint doctor of medicine and master of public health degree. Above, Julie shares a moment prior to Commencement with her husband, Yung Lyou, who also graduated from Upstate Sunday, earning a joint doctor of medicine and doctor of philosophy degree. In total, more than 500 degrees were conferred to students in Upstate’s college’s of Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine and Nursing.
