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Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics grows by treating athletes & the active
SKANEATELES — Dr. Marc P. Pietropaoli, founder and owner of Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics in Skaneateles, has built his practice on treating athletic injuries during practice, game situations, or just everyday leisure. Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics, which operates at 791 W. Genesee St. in Skaneateles, focuses on the treatment of joint replacements, torn
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SKANEATELES — Dr. Marc P. Pietropaoli, founder and owner of Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics in Skaneateles, has built his practice on treating athletic injuries during practice, game situations, or just everyday leisure.
Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics, which operates at 791 W. Genesee St. in Skaneateles, focuses on the treatment of joint replacements, torn ligaments, fractures, pulled muscles, knee and shoulder injuries, and aims to help its patients return to their active lifestyles or sports.
The practice targets athletes with its sports-medicine expertise, and orthopedics covers a wide range of musculoskeletal problems in any age category, ranging from babies up to people over 100 years of age, says Dr. Marc Pietropaoli.
Pietropaoli says, “48 percent of our patients are over the age of 50, so it’s almost 50-50 as far as the age of 50.”
Pietropaoli is an orthopedic surgeon and the sole owner of the practice, which he started in April 2001.
The practice also handles workers’-compensation injuries, and arthritis and degenerative conditions that have slowed patients down, he says.
Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics consists of departments that include orthopedics and sports medicine, physical therapy, athletic training, radiology, and clinical (nursing). The practice has seen more than 20,000 patients, but Pietropaoli isn’t sure how many patients Victory sees on an annual basis.
Victory employs 40 full-time and four part-time employees, Pietropaoli says.
The full-time employees include a physician assistant, a nurse practitioner, five physical therapists, two physical-therapy assistants, seven athletic trainers, two massage therapists, and one personal trainer.
The part-time employees include two X-ray technicians, he says.
The practice on March 25 announced the hiring of Jason Cherry as its director of physical therapy. The practice is also hoping to add to its nursing staff, and hire a part-time physician assistant.
“We’re always looking for good people, and there are always spots open if the person is the right fit,” Pietropaoli says.
Pietropaoli says Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics grew its revenue by 20 percent in 2012, but he declined to provide revenue totals. He also declined to offer a revenue projection for 2013.
Gait and balance & baseball
Besides athletic injuries, Victory is concerned about injury prevention and believes that early detection of gait and balance disorders will reduce a patient’s chance of falling or getting hurt.
Victory’s gait and balance program is used to screen patients to determine if they’re at risk for falling. It uses some sophisticated electronic equipment, says Pietropaoli.
“If they [the patients] are at risk, it can be sometime due to musculoskeletal problem, sometimes due to a neurologic problem, and sometime due to an inner-ear problem [such as vertigo],” he says, noting that his practice can then design a rehabilitation program for that patient.
Each year, he says one of three people over the age of 65 falls and is injured, and 2.2 million of those cases need some type of medical attention.
One out of 10 falls leads to a serious injury, Pietropaoli says.
Besides his work as an orthopedic surgeon, Pietropaoli also serves as the team physician for the Auburn Doubledays minor-league baseball team. He’s also worked with the Syracuse Chiefs when both clubs were minor league affiliates of the Toronto Blue Jays. Now, both clubs are affiliated with the Washington Nationals.
On March 2, Pietropaoli traveled to Viera, Fla. to help administer entrance physicals to all 75 baseball players at the Washington Nationals spring-training camp.
Future plans
Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics leases its 6,000-square-foot facility from Victor Ianno, but Pietropaoli declined to disclose his monthly lease payment.
“We’re pretty cramped and running out of space here,” he says, noting the practice does have plans to expand at some point in the future.
Pietropaoli says the practice has been working on a project called the “Victory campus,” which will eventually occupy 100 acres of land the practice owns on the east side of Skaneateles off Route 20.
The project would include an integrated health-care, sports, and wellness complex on that property. It would increase its building size to a 61,000-square-foot medical, health, and wellness facility, along with indoor athletic facilities and outdoor athletic fields surrounding the building. The practice is still working with the Skaneateles town planning board on all the details.
“We don’t have a definite exact timetable at this time,” Pietropaoli say.
A native of Rochester, Pietropaoli graduated from Syracuse University in 1988 with a bachelor’s degree in biology. He then earned his medical degree from the State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center (now Upstate Medical University) in 1992 and later completed his orthopedic-surgery residency program in 1997 followed by a fellowship in orthopedic sports medicine at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Ala. in 1998.
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Brooks named Syracuse entrepreneur in residence for Launch NY
A Buffalo–based nonprofit group aiming to aid entrepreneurs and young companies across upstate New York has a named an entrepreneur in residence for the Syracuse area. Paul Brooks, former vice president for entrepreneurship programs at the Tech Garden in downtown Syracuse, will serve in the role for Launch NY. The organization focuses on a 27-county
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A Buffalo–based nonprofit group aiming to aid entrepreneurs and young companies across upstate New York has a named an entrepreneur in residence for the Syracuse area.
Paul Brooks, former vice president for entrepreneurship programs at the Tech Garden in downtown Syracuse, will serve in the role for Launch NY. The organization focuses on a 27-county region stretching from Buffalo to Syracuse and down to Binghamton.
It launched in 2011 and has received $1.2 million in financial support from the federal Economic Development Administration and the John R. Oishei Foundation and Margaret L.Wendt Foundation, both of Buffalo.
“We want to be the group that connects the different organizations that currently exist,” says John Seman, Launch NY president and CEO. “We want to work with them and help support their efforts.”
The group’s regional entrepreneurs in residence are a key to that goal, Seman says. In addition to Brooks, Launch NY has one stationed in Buffalo and one in Ithaca.
The organization’s goal is to have one entrepreneur in each of the major cities it covers, Seman says.
The entrepreneurs will serve and coaches and mentors to companies in their areas and help connect them with resources around the state, Seman says. Brooks, for example, could help a company in Buffalo tap into resources at the Tech Garden through his connections or help a Syracuse firm reach experts in Buffalo.
“Making connections is one of the foremost attributes of this organization,” Brooks says. “There are … throughout Upstate a lot of people trying to do similar things. The advantage we will have at this point is having feet on the street in several different locations.”
The local entrepreneurs will also be looking for potential investments. Launch NY is working to raise another $5 million by the end of the year so it can begin making investments in Upstate businesses, Seman says.
The group’s regional entrepreneurs will make recommendations to its board of directors, which will make final investment decisions.
“My role is to identify entrepreneurs that are promising and have the opportunity to grow,” Brooks says.
Brooks joined Launch NY in March.
The group is not targeting specific industries, but is looking mainly to aid companies a bit beyond their initial startup stages. The goal is to help firms on the cusp of going to market that have already gotten over their early hurdles and may have already been through an incubator program, Seman says.
Partners in Launch NY include Erie County Industrial Development Agency, the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences at the University of Buffalo, Tompkins County Area Development (TCAD), and the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
The organization is based on JumpStart, Inc., a similar group located in Cleveland, Ohio.
In addition to its local entrepreneurs in residence, Launch NY is planning other efforts, including an online resource meant to help Upstate’s startup community make connections with regional and national resources and long-term business opportunities.
IdeaCrossing is a Web–based resource to help entrepreneurs find mentors and potential investors, access a regional directory of service providers, invite existing advisers to collaborate online, and more.
The group announced IdeaCrossing in March.
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