Upstate is the only hospital in the region that has the ability to treat stroke patients beyond the three-hour window with clot-retrieval technology.

Weinstock is named a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in recognition of her leadership, and academic and research endeavors, including coordinating diabetes care for more than 25,000 Central New Yorkers.

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.

Chigozie Onyinana and Kasandra L. Scales are honored for their scholarship, student leadership an civic engagement.

Upstate will confer 506 degrees and 18 professional certificates to graduates of its colleges of Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Medicine and Nursing May 20.

Grant from the Community Health Foundation will expand midwifery services for low-income women. The provider-based midwifery program is set to fully launch by early fall 2012, with all babies being delivered at the Jim and DeDe Walsh Family Birth Center in Upstate University Hospital at Community General.

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.

Listing will help raise awareness of new method for treating borderline personality disorders and other complex behavioral problems as well as lead to increase in number of practitioners trained in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy.

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 [...]

Corona, who founded Upstate’s telemedicine program in 1995, returns to direct the pathology department, following a leadership role at Welch Allyn, the medical diagnostic equipment maker.

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.

Upstate Medical University wins the agency’s Spirit of Caring Award for Campaign Excellence after raising $650,000 for local human service agencies.

Mark Roth, one of the winningest professional bowlers who is also a stroke survivor, will be on hand at Upstate’s Strikes Against Stroke fundraiser May 6.

Syracuse hospitals and local organ, tissue and eye donation organizations will honor donors and recipients whose lives have been touched by organ and tissue donation.

Upstate's College of Health Professions students help raised nearly $150,000 for cancer patient programs.

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.

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.

Upstate Medical University joins Central New York Area Health Education Center to provide online access to its continuing medical education courses and programs to healthcare providers throughout Upstate New York.

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 https://www.facebook.com/UpstateGCH

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield’s Hospital Incentive Program recognizes Upstate University Hospital for enhancements in patient safety, clinical care and other areas.