KATHY WENGERT has been named director of patient accounting for the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS). She has worked at MVHS for 16 years and most recently served as the applications administrator for patient accounting. During this time she also has served on the SSI advisory board and executive committee. Before MVHS, Wengert previously worked as the billing manager for the Court Street Diagnostic and Treatment Center. She received her diploma in business management from the Utica School of Commerce.

Upstate Medical University has announced the following appointments. AMY TUCKER, M.D., has been named interim chief medical officer of Upstate University Hospital and associate dean of the College of Medicine. She will continue to serve as VP of ambulatory care and population health, a post she has held since joining Upstate in April 2017.

RICHARD WOJCIKIEWICZ, Ph.D., has been named chair of Upstate Medical University’s Department of Pharmacology. He joined Upstate as an assistant professor of pharmacology in September 1993. His research program on intracellular signaling was funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1995. Wojcikiewicz was named professor in 2006. He has served Upstate in many ways, most notably as interim chair of Pharmacology, since 2013, and currently holds two NIH RO1 grants, focused on intracellular signaling mammalian cells, with relevance to cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. The following individuals have joined the Department of Urology.

MICHAEL CASTELLO, D.O. previously served as a urologist with several Southern Tier hospitals, including Lourdes Medical Center, Binghamton; Wilson Memorial Hospital, Johnson City; and Arnot Ogden Hospital in Elmira. He earned his medical degree from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.

EDWARD IOFFE, M.D., previously held a robotic and minimally invasive fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Jacobi Medical Center. There, he also served as urology chief resident. Ioffe received a medical degree from the University of Massachusetts and a bachelor’s degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

SERGEY KRAVCHICK, M.D., previously served as a urologist with the Hassaf Harofeh Medical Center in Tzrifin, Israel, and Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel, where he was deputy chief of the Department of Urology. He served as a clinical fellow in urology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. He earned a medical degree from the Chisinau State Medical Institute.

NICK WEI-EN LIU, M.D., previously served as director of urologic oncology at St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He served as a urologic oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and as chief urology resident at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Liu earned his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cornell University.

Bousquet Holstein PLLC has established a public finance practice group with the arrival of SUSAN R. KATZOFF and JEAN S. EVERETT, as members, and paralegal LORI L. MCROBBIE. McRobbie has more than 12 years of experience working as a paralegal in all aspects of public finance including document preparation, organization and distribution, client contact, closing coordination, and transcript preparation.