MICHAEL E. SVENDSEN is the new nursing home administrator at Menorah Park of Central New York. Previously, he was administrator of the Bethany Gardens Skilled Living Center in Rome. He has almost 30 years experience in senior care administration. Svendsen earned an MBA after completing an executive program in in health care administration at the University of Dallas.

ADAORA UDEKWU, M.D., has joined Oswego Hospital’s active medical staff and the hospitalist team. Udekwu recently completed her family medicine residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She earned her medical degree from the University of Sint Eustatius School of Medicine in the Dutch Caribbean. Udekwu began her health-care career as a registered nurse, according to the release. Before earning her medical degree, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Salisbury University in Maryland and worked as a nurse while she completed her medical training. 

Rome Memorial Hospital has hired OLUBUKOLA T. ADEYEYE M.D. as a new member of its medical staff. Adeyeye is a board-certified pediatrician at Rome Medical Group. A native of Nigeria, she earned bachelor’s degrees in medicine and surgery from Obafemi Awolowo University College of Health Sciences, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, before making her way to the United States in 2009. She earned her master’s degree in public health from Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City, with a focus on population, child, and adolescent health. Adeyeye completed her residency in pediatrics at the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center in Brooklyn, where she provided inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care to pediatric patients. 

Bousquet Holstein PLLC announced that MELISSA A. BARAHONA has joined the firm as an associate attorney in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Prior to joining Bousquet Holstein, she was an associate attorney at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Freidman, LLP in New York City. Barahona is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. She is also a graduate of Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in industrial and labor relations. 

JAS Recruitment promoted JESSE SKELLETT to director of sales and marketing, where he will be responsible for managing JAS’s sales and recruiting team in Syracuse. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Hartwick College and a master’s degree from St. John Fisher.

TERACAI has hired JESSE D. SIMMONS as a cloud services account manager. Prior to joining TERACAI, he worked as a group sales manager at Enterprise Holdings, Inc. for 14 years. Simmons earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from SUNY Oswego.