Fust Charles Chambers LLP has hired AMY DOBROVECH as senior healthcare consultant. She brings more than 15 years of broad-based experience in finance and managerial accounting. Dobrovech comes to Fust Charles from Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, where she worked for more than 14 years in staff accountant, accounting team leader, and financial analyst positions, according to her LinkedIn page. Before that, she started her career as an accountant at Firley, Moran, Freer & Eassa, CPA, P.C. in Syracuse. Dobrovech holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from North Carolina State University and is a CPA. 

Carpenter & Damsky Advertising in Utica has named CARRIE LoGALBO-KLEPADLO as its director of creative services. As founder and president of CALdesign, she has provided graphic design and coordinated special projects and events for a variety of clients, including the 2012 One World Concert for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. LoGalbo-Klepadlo has more than 18 years industry experience, during which she has produced materials for Treehouse Pictures of Los Angeles and the Oneida Indian Nation, where she worked for 16 years. More recently, LoGalbo-Klepadlo was employed by the Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, or CABVI.

JOANNE BARRY, assistant VP for human resources, has retired from SUNY Cortland, after more than a quarter century of service. She earned SUNY’s Lifetime Achievement in Human Resources Award in 2014 for her career contributions on campus and throughout the state system. Barry joined the SUNY Cortland staff in 1990 as a personnel associate and was promoted to senior personnel associate / affirmative action officer in 1997. She assumed leadership of the Human Resources Office in 2000, when she was appointed director of personnel. In 2007, Barry was elevated to assistant VP for human resources. 

POMCO has promoted VINCE DINGMAN, IV to supervisor, network recruitment. Prior to his promotion, he spent four years as a facility network contractor at POMCO. Dingman has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Le Moyne College, and a master’s degree of health administration from Utica College. CARLA JODWAY has been promoted to supervisor of provider services. She joined POMCO in November 1997 and previously was the senior provider services representative

MICHAEL FERLENDA has joined the Syracuse branch of AXA Advisors, LLC. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance, economics minor from SUNY Oswego. In addition, he has earned his Series 7 and 63 FINRA securities registrations in New York, and his New York State life, accident, and health designation. MICHAEL WEBSTERhas also joined the Syracuse branch of AXA Advisors as a financial professional. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business management from Le Moyne College and has also earned his Series 7 and 63 FINRA Securities registrations in New York, and his New York State life, accident, and health designation.

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.