EUGENE PALCHIK, M.D. has joined the St. Joseph’s Health’s vascular surgery team. A graduate of the doctor of medicine program at New York University’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he completed his residency in general surgery at University of Rochester. Palchik received specialized training in vascular surgery during his two-year fellowship in vascular surgery at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, and as a clinical research fellow in vascular surgery at his alma mater. Before joining St. Joseph’s Health, Palchik provided vascular surgery coverage for a network of four hospitals as a vascular surgeon with Vascular & Endovascular Associates of New Jersey in Paramus. At Landmark Medical Center, he served as medical director of the Wound Care Center in addition to his surgical duties.

HCR Home Care has added LAURA KIRKPATRICK, physical therapist and DEVON TUCKER, occupational therapist to its Onondaga County Operations. 

MELISSA BEAGLE has joined Carthage Area Hospital’s Carthage Behavioral Health team as a general therapist. Before she joined Carthage Behavioral Health, she worked as a senior operations manager for Transitional Living Services in Watertown, from 2016 until last month. From 2003 to 2016, she worked at the Children’s Home of Jefferson County, Watertown, where she was a case manager from 2003 to 2008 and the Jefferson County SPOA/SPOE Coordinator from 2008 to 2016. Beagle is a 1992 graduate of Grove City College in Pennsylvania where she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology. In 2017, she completed the Greater Rochester Collaborative Master of Social Work Program, a program in collaboration between the College at Brockport and Nazareth College. 

MARK BRITZ, an experienced workforce performance strategist, has launched ThruWork (ThruWork.com), a talent-development consultancy for small to mid-sized businesses. The company specializes in solving organizational performance problems and focuses on non-training approaches to scale employee performance. He previously worked for Syracuse companies ADMI, Systems Made Simple, and Pearson Digital Learning. Britz has a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Oswego, and a master’s degree in inclusive education from Syracuse University.

Massage Envy of Rochester / Syracuse has hired TERRY TAYLOR as a licensed massage therapist in the Fayetteville location, ARIANE HUGHES as a licensed massage therapist in the Clay site, and JEREMIAH FETTINGER as a massage therapist in the Fayetteville location.