Liberty Resources — a nonprofit organization that provides an array of services to nearly 18,000 individuals and families throughout New York, New Jersey, and Texas — recently announced four promotions. AMY SARGENT has been promoted to senior director of integrated health operations. In her new role, she ensures the integration of services across the agency’s integrated health clinics in Syracuse, Rochester, Fulton, and Oneida. Sargent will also oversee new and ongoing program development. She brings 10 years of experience to her position. Sargent first joined Liberty Resources in 2017 as a health home program director and later became the divisional director of community-based services.

YOLANDA CHERBINI is stepping into the role of divisional director of community-based services at Liberty Resources. In this role, she will provide direction and quality oversight to the adult and children’s health home care management programs and community orientated recovery and empowerment services. She was previously the program director of adult care management. Cherbini joined Liberty Resources in 2014 as a care coordinator and was promoted in 2015 to care management supervisor. She has 20 years of experience working in the human services industry.

ELIZABETH KRELL has taken on the role of director of integrated health quality. She will provide project management and will oversee and direct quality initiatives in primary care for the Liberty Resources clinics located in Syracuse and Fulton. She was previously the assistant director of process optimization. Krell joined Liberty Resources in 2016 as a registered health information administrator. She has also served the agency as revenue cycle business process manager.

APRIL CONANT has been promoted to program director of adult care management and will oversee the agency’s adult health home program. She was previously the adult care management supervisor for the agency’s Onondaga County operations. Conant joined Liberty Resources in 2017 as a children’s care coordinator. She has more than a decade of experience in the human-services field. 

KHIEM D. NGUYEN, M.D., a gastroenterologist, has recently joined UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health. Dr. Nguyen will be practicing at Finger Lakes Gastroenterology. He is an active medical-staff member at Geneva General and Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hospitals. Nguyen completed his fellowship in gastroenterology at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He did his residency in internal medicine at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania and finished his internship in general surgery at Staten Island University Hospital. Nguyen attended medical school at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, as well as Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences at F. Hebert Edwards School of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Nguyen concluded his military career with the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he practiced at St. Lucie Medical Center in St. Lucie, Florida. 

Oswego Health recently appointed CLARK SARGEANT as its new executive director of mental health and wellness. In this role, he will oversee operations for inpatient, outpatient adult, outpatient youth, school-based, and assertive community treatment services. In addition, he will establish goals, budget, plan, organize, implement, and coordinate all mental-health programs and collaborate with the local governing unit and senior leadership team to ensure that psychiatric needs are being met for the community. Sargeant is a familiar face to Oswego Health, as he previously worked in the medical surgical unit as a senior registered nurse from 2012-2018. Since then, his jobs in Central New York have included serving as nurse manager at Crouse Hospital from 2018-2020 and after that, as director of primary care operations and integrated health at Liberty Resources. Sargeant earned his MBA degree in health care from the Jack Welch Management Institute in Virginia in 2022, his bachelor’s from Utica University in 2017, and his associate degree in nursing from Crouse Hospital College of Nursing in 2012. 

REBECCA H. KINDON was recently named director of the Upstate Medical University Health Sciences Library. She had served as interim director since March. Kindon joined the Upstate Health Sciences Library in 2005 as an instruction and outreach librarian. She has served in numerous roles with the library, including as coordinator of library instruction, information resources manager, assistant director for customer services, and associate director of libraries. Kindon holds a master’s degree in library and information science from Syracuse University and earned undergraduate degrees from Le Moyne College and Cazenovia College. The Upstate Health Sciences Library says it is the only medical library in Central New York, attracting users from all across the region and beyond.