COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: Upstate’s Inclusive Health Services had a display booth out at the Cazenovia Pride Fest June 19 in celebration of Pride Month. HIS offers an affirming space for primary care to the LGBTQ+ community, including transgender care, regardless of HIV status.

CAMPUS VISIT: New York State Sens., second from left, John Mannion, Rachel May and Pete Harckham, chair of the State Senate Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Committee, with Upstate Medical University President Mantosh Dewan gathered on campus to meet Upstate addiction experts and to discuss Upstate’s successful and innovative treatment programs, and ways to collaborate to improve addiction health policy in CNY and across NY State.

Upstate held two moments of silence March 18 and 19 to honor the lives of Covid patients who have passed away and pay tribute to the contributions the entire Upstate team has made over the past year, especially our frontline colleagues. An online service featuring messages from President Dewan, Dr. Corona, Rev. Terry Culbertson and a song by Chevelle Jones-Moore is available to view at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oISLVbKIP4 …(more)

The Covid board at Upstate Community Hospital proudly shows the total number of Upstate Covid-19 patients discharged since March 2020.

IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE FAMILY? Dr. Sri Narsipur, Upstate’s professor and chair of Medicine and medical director of Nephrology, received his second covid vaccine dose from Sonia Narsipur—his daughter! Sonia is a fourth-year medical student at Upstate, and is interested in family medicine so she can advocate for and help patients of all ages. Sonia comes from a family of doctors, as her mom—Dr. Sonia Y. Kragh—is also a physician.