Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Team
Fellowship Program Director
Dr. Myszewski is originally from Wisconsin but has now lived in 7 states. Before going into medicine, she was a quantitative geneticist for the US Forest Service in Mississippi. Dr. Myszewski has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Penn State, a Master's in Forest Resources from the University of Idaho and a Ph.D. in Forestry from Texas A&M. She attended medical school at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, then completed her pediatric residency at Good Samaritan Hospital on Long Island. She worked as a hospitalist for Good Samaritan and Seattle Children's before joining the team at Upstate. In addition to PHM, Dr. Myszewski is a Patient Experience Team physician champion. She enjoys spending time outdoors, hiking and working in her garden.
Fellowship Coordinator
Shannen Eichler
Ms. Eichler has grown up here in Upstate New York. She graduated from Cayuga Community College in 2011 with an Associates in Applied Science. She plans on continuing her education so she can join her colleagues in working with pediatric patients. Along with assisting multiple divisions in Pediatrics, she is the Program Coordinator for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program. In her spare time Shannen enjoys being with her family, reading and being outdoors.
PHM Faculty
Originally from Boston, MA, Dr. Dargon joined SUNY Upstate as a dual internal medicine and pediatric hospitalist in July 2019 after completing his Internal medicine-pediatric residency training in June 2019 at University of Texas-Houston. He studied biology at Colorado College and investigated kidney allograft rejection at Massachusetts General Hospital as a laboratory technician before embarking on his medical school education at Ross University School of Medicine. Academic interests include medical student and resident education along with incorporating evidence-based practices into his clinical decision making. He enjoys cooking, staying active outdoors, and, most of all, spending time with his two children.
Dr. Lodge is a New Englander at heart and a Patriots fan. She went to undergrad at Northeastern University where she had the opportunity to work as a medical assistant at a pediatric primary care office for her co-op and fell in love with pediatric medicine. Dr. Lodge did vaccine research at that office before moving on to do clinical research at Tufts Floating Hospital for Children and Boston Children's Department of Emergency Medicine. She completed medical school at St. George's University and then her pediatric residency at Upstate. She and her husband enjoy traveling, paddle boarding, boating, and hiking with the kids.
Dr. Osten is originally from Minnesota. He earned his medical degree from Tufts University in 2012 and completed his pediatric residency at Tripler Army Medical Center in 2015. Following seven years of service as an Army pediatrician, including a chief resident year and an academic medicine fellowship at the University of Hawaii, he joined the Pediatric Hospital Medicine team at Upstate in 2019. Currently, Dr. Osten serves as the Pediatric Quality Officer for the children's hospital, balancing his time between clinical practice and quality improvement leadership. He is board certified in Pediatric Hospital Medicine and his professional interests center on utilizing data to enhance patient care, with a focus on data visualization and clinical pathway development. In his personal time, he enjoys outdoor activities such as skiing and cycling with his children.
From DeWitt, NY. Dr. Schafer has been a Pediatric Hospitalist since 2011 and is subspecialty certified. She is currently the Director of Hospital Medicine at Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital. She completed Internal Medicine and Pediatrics training at the University of Rochester after completing her medical school and undergraduate training at SUNY University at Buffalo. She has interests in sepsis, patient safety, and quality improvement. She enjoys competitive swimming.
PHM Nurse Practioners
Christine is the Advanced Practice Manager for the NPs and PAs in Pediatrics. She received her Associates Degree in Nursing from St. Joseph's College of Nursing in Syracuse and her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Nursing from SUNY Upstate Medical University. Her nursing career in Pediatrics began here at Upstate. After completing her Master's degree, she moved to Charlotte, NC before returning a couple years later to join the Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine team, where she continues today. She also has an additional Post-Masters Certificate as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. A few of her pediatric committee memberships include: Pediatric Behavior Escalation Response Team, Pediatric Quality Committee, Pediatric Patient Experience, and Upstate's Nursing Congress. Outside of work she enjoys reading, planning vacations to sunny locales, and her busiest job of all, being a hockey mom to her 2 children.
Originally from Solvay, NY Kelly completed her BSN at SUNY Brockport in 1999 and started working at Upstate right out of college. She worked as a Pediatric Nurse until she became a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner via Upstate Medical University in 2004. In 2005 Kelly took a position as a Pediatric NP for the Dept of Otolaryngology where she worked until 2018, when she joined the inpatient hospitalists team. Since then, she has helped cover all three hospitalist teams, primarily covering the Pediatric Gold team for the past 2 years. In May of 2021, she completed her Post Master's certificate in the Primary Family Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program. Kelly currently sits on multiple committees including the Pediatric Behavioral Emergency Committee, Nurse residency, Pediatric Resuscitation committee, and Pediatric Core Classes for new hires. In her free time, you will find her running/training for whatever race she has coming up or baking. If you can't find her, it's likely she is traveling to some new and exciting place.