Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD, FAAP, is Upstate's new president

Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD, FAAP, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Maimonides Medical Center and vice president of Maimonides Infants and Children’s Hospital of Brooklyn, center, has been appointed by SUNY as the new president of SUNY Upstate Medical University. She will begin in that post Jan. 14, 2016.  Flanking her are, right, SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher and SUNY Board of Trustees Chair Carl McCall.