Upstate News

A 280-foot crane, with the ability to lift 200 tons, towers over downtown Syracuse as work continues on the Upstate Cancer Center, off East Adams Street. The center will be five-stories tall and house all of Upstate’s outpatient cancer services—pediatric and adult—under one roof. It will feature 27 private infusion areas, four-season rooftop healing gardens, meditation room, family resource center, multidisciplinary practice locations, private space for genetic, financial and other counseling services, a boutique for patient apparel and other personal products and three linear accelerator rooms.

Upstate Medical University’s fourth-year College of Medicine students learned where they will spend their first year of training, known as residency, in their chosen specialty. Established in 1952 by the National Resident Matching Program, Match Day provides an orderly and fair way to match applicants with available positions.

Connor Licamele, pediatric cancer survivor, took one final look at the signed beam before it was hoisted into the air and placed atop the Upstate Cancer Center. When completed, the Upstate Cancer Center will encompass more than 90,000 square feet dedicated to cancer care for children and adults and feature 27 private infusion rooms, a four-season rooftop garden, mediation rooms and a family resource center. The Upstate Cancer Center is slated to open in May 2014.

Upstate students planted shining blue pinwheels in the courtyard at Weiskotten Hall as part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month’s Pinwheels for Prevention campaign. Students also raised money for the McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center.

Spring has finally arrived in the courtyard of Upstate Medical University’s Weiskotten Hall.

The Upstate Cancer Center received a $250,000 grant from SEFCU, one of the largest credit unions in upstate New York. The donation will fund a portion of the Vero SBRT (Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy system) for advanced patient treatments.

New York Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, center, who represents midtown Manhattan and chairs the Assembly’s Health Committee, meets with Upstate University Hospital CEO John McCabe, MD, left, and Dan Hurley, Upstate’s assistant vice president of government relations, outside the entrance to the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital May 2. Gottfried’s visit to campus includes a tour of the hospital and talks with McCabe and other officials on public hospitals.

Adeepa D. Singh, MD, Class of 2013, graduated from Upstate’s College of Medicine Sunday, May 19. Upstate awarded 502 degrees and seven professional certificates to graduates of the university’s colleges of Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine and Nursing. Congratulations to all our Upstate graduates.

Upstate Medical University President David R. Smith, MD, welcomes New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Upstate campus May 22. Cuomo was on campus to announce a program that would incentivize new business to set up shop near SUNY campuses.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo talks to media following his announcement of a program that would incentivize new business to set up shop near SUNY campuses.