People on the Move

MELISSA SHERMAN, a certified family nurse practitioner, has joined the medical staff of Finger Lakes Health’s Geneva General Hospital in its hospitalist department. Sherman received her master’s degree in nursing from Upstate Medical University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Keuka College and her associate degree in nursing from Finger Lakes Community College. […]

TAEWAN KIM, M.D., an experienced bariatric surgeon, has joined Oswego Health at the Center for Weight Loss & Surgery. Board-certified by the American Board of Surgery, he earned his medical degree and completed his general-surgery residency from SUNY Upstate Medical University. In addition, Kim completed his fellowship of minimally invasive surgery Upstate Medical. He has

JOSEPH G. FARRELL has joined Mackenzie Hughes LLP as a partner in the firm’s litigation department and will concentrate his legal practice on medical malpractice defense. Farrell has been practicing law for more than 10 years, defending physicians, midlevel providers, and facilities in medical malpractice actions. He has represented medical providers in matters involving the

Loretto has promoted SHANNON LOUGHLIN to director of life enrichment & recreation for The Nottingham. Formerly a recreation therapist at The Nottingham, she started at Loretto in 2008 as a recreation therapist at Loretto’s Daybreak, Adult Medical Day Program in Syracuse. Loughlin holds bachelor’s degree in recreation with a concentration in therapeutic recreation from SUNY

NICK TRYNISKI has been named AVP, credit manager at Pathfinder Bank. He will manage the residential and commercial underwriting for the bank and will bring his personal experience as a credit analyst and knowledge of lending and the bank’s customers to his team of three analysts and a residential underwriter to this new role. Prior

AARON FRIED was recently appointed coordinator of academic program development at Mohawk Valley Community College (MVCC). An associate professor at the college, Fried will continue his teaching responsibilities and now also will provide support and structure for continuous improvement of academic programs and coordinate academic program interface and evaluation with college personnel. Fried has been

RANDY KELLAR has joined the AccessCNY team as the agency’s new associate executive director of human resources. In this position, he will focus on streamlining human-resource processes including employee recruitment, onboarding, and benefits administration. Kellar will manage a team of 15 professionals. He brings more than 14 years of human-resources experience to his new position

MATT DWYER, director of network engineering, has been promoted by Northland Communications to the firm’s executive team as VP of operations. Northland is telecommunications provider with offices in both Syracuse and Holland Patent. In this new role, Dwyer will lead the operations team and oversee the outside plant, network engineering, network services, and field-operations departments.