Breast Surgeon LISA LAI, M.D. has joined Oswego Health to provide community members with a range of services to its General Surgery Associates practice. She will provide care to patients needing breast care in Suite 1700 of the Fulton Medical Office Building and surgical care in Oswego Hospital’s advanced surgery center. Lai is affiliated with the Cancer Center at Upstate Medical Center and serves as the medical director for the breast cancer program. She received her medical degree and undergraduate degrees from SUNY Buffalo and completed her surgery residency at Upstate Medical University and a fellowship in breast surgical oncology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Masonic Medical Research Laboratory (MMRL) has hired TERRI A. CRONIN as executive assistant to Dr. Maria Kontaridis, director of research. She brings decades of experience to MMRL. Cronin most recently worked in senior administrative positions at Lockheed Martin Corporation in Syracuse and Atlanta. She also held positions at the Cobb County School District in Georgia. Cronin was part of the support team for the first female president of Hamilton College and now has another opportunity to make history by supporting Kontaridis, MMRL says.

Massage Envy of Rochester / Syracuse has hired SAMANTHA WHITE as a wellness consultant in the Clay location. KELLY LINDERMANN has been hired as a wellness consultant and MICHAEL JOYCE has been hired as a licensed massage therapist in the Fayetteville location.