8 -- free medical apps for doctors and medical students that Joshua Steinberg MD has built through collaboration with computer science professors and students at Binghamton University. (Find them by searching “Joshua Steinberg MD” in iTunes.)

20 -- years difference in life expectancy between people in Kathmandu and those in surrounding areas of Nepal, part of the justification for the Patan Academy of Health Sciences, a medical school whose students pledge to practice rural medicine. The school opened in 2010; its founder is Arjun Karki MD, who did his residency at Upstate.

16,221 -- people who received cancer treatment at Upstate University Hospital in 2009, twice the number of patients as were served in 1999.

100 -- percent of radiation therapy, respiratory therapy and perfusion students who passed state/national certification or licensure exams in 2010 and 2011.