Finger Lakes Health has appointed AUDREY TORIO as director of nursing at Huntington Living Center in Waterloo. She has more than 17 years of progressive nursing-leadership experience within the long-term-care community in Central New York and has experience in various settings with a concentration in geriatrics, including skilled nursing, short-term rehabilitation, and managed long-term care. Torio also has a background in acute hospital care and oncology and earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Elmira College. Prior to joining Finger Lakes Health, Torio was the director of nursing/director of clinical services at Van Duyn Center for Rehabilitation in Onondaga, where she oversaw one of the largest facilities in the Syracuse area, consisting of a 500-bed facility that houses skilled nursing as well as post-acute care needs. 

ANNA BROOKS THOMAS has been named director of football operations at Colgate University. She began her post on March 1, becoming just the second woman to hold the football operations’ position in Colgate’s conference, the Patriot League, and one of fewer than 30 women in this position in all of Division I football, Colgate says. Her responsibilities include handling team travel, video operations, career planning, and the life-skills program. Thomas — a native of Tappahannock, Virginia — arrives after one year as the football-operations assistant at the University of Richmond. Before that, she worked as a compliance assistant at the University of Virginia, while completing her graduate degree. Thomas got her start as a student recruitment team member and then football-compliance intern for the University of Alabama football program during her undergraduate days.

RITA ROMANO has been appointed president of the newly created Quadrant Laboratories LLC division at Quadrant Biosciences Inc., a molecular-diagnostics company. She will primarily be responsible for spearheading the growth of Quadrant’s growing laboratory diagnostics business, which includes the opening of a new lab in partnership with SUNY and Upstate Medical University. The company’s Clarifi COVID-19 saliva test, co-developed by Upstate Medical, received emergency-use authorization by the FDA in September 2020. It is currently ranked as the most sensitive COVID-19 saliva test currently on the market, Quadrant Biosciences said. Romano brings 30 years of clinical laboratory experience to Quadrant, most recently as director of the Operations Center at Laboratory Alliance of CNY. In this role, she helped oversee clinical- laboratory services that performed more than 10 million tests a year. Romano earned her bachelor’s degree in medical technology and her master’s degree in strategic leadership from St. Bonaventure University