STEVEN J. SINOPOLI, CPA has joined Grossman St. Amour CPAs as senior manager in the firm’s Tax Services Group. He practices in the areas of multi‐state tax preparation for individuals, partnerships, S‐Corporations, and fiduciary entities. His clients include medical and dental practices. Sinopoli prepares and reviews financial statements and quarterly payroll-tax returns. He also engages in tax planning for individuals and businesses and analyzes clients’ accounting information to advise clients on their best business decisions. Sinopoli is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is a graduate of Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

KATIE A. KAIM, CPA has joined Grossman St. Amour as supervisor in the Tax Services Group. Her areas of practice include audit and attest engagements, financial-statement preparation, bookkeeping, and tax-return preparation for individuals, corporations, and partnerships. Her industry areas include manufacturing and retail distribution, physicians and medical-practice groups, not‐for-profits, construction and real estate, individuals, and employee-benefit plans. Kaim is a graduate of Binghamton University’s School of Management with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. She is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Southern Tier Chapter of NextGen CPAs.

MATTHEW J. POTERALSKI has joined the firm as staff accountant in the Tax Services Group. He previously completed the Grossman St. Amour Student Internship Program in the Tax Services Group. Poteralski practices in the areas of income-tax return preparation, corporate tax-return preparation, payroll and sales-tax return preparation, financial-statement preparation, and bookkeeping for businesses and individuals. He previously completed the Grossman St. Amour Student Internship Program in the Tax Services Group. Poteralski is a graduate of SUNY Oswego with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a member of Beta Alpha Psi, and the Accounting Society.

BRYAN T. CZARNECKI has joined the firm as staff accountant in the Audit Services Group. He previously completed the Grossman St. Amour Student Internship Program in the Audit Services Group. Czarnecki practices in the areas of audit and attest engagements and financial-statement preparation. He works with not‐for‐profit organizations. Czarnecki is a graduate of SUNY Oswego with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and MBA. He completed the Grossman St. Amour CPAs Student Internship Program. 

Pinckney Hugo Group, a full-service marketing- communications firm, has hired BETHANY MERLIN, of Syracuse, as an assistant account manager. Prior to joining Pinckney Hugo Group, Merlin was a marketing coordinator at Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty in Boston. She has a bachelor’s degree in marketing communication from Emerson College. 

LORRAINE A. LADD-FALANGA has joined The Center for Wound Healing at Oswego Health. Ladd-Falanga will see patients at the center, which offers treatments including hyperbaric oxygen therapy, negative-pressure therapies, bioengineered tissues, and biosynthetic to reintroduce the body’s innate ability to heal. Ladd-Falanga brings more than 20 years of experience and is no stranger to Oswego Health. Throughout her career, she held various positions at Oswego Hospital including nurse practitioner in the Emergency Department and serving as a hospitalist. She’s worked throughout Central New York at the major health-care systems and most recently was a nurse practitioner at Delphi Healthcare, where she provided medical care to patients requiring admissions. Ladd-Falanga is a New York State-licensed registered nurse, registered vascular technologist and cardiac sonographer. She earned her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in nursing from SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Oswego Health’s brand-new primary care practice, Lakeview Primary Care, recently welcomed experienced family nurse practitioner (FNP), NATHANIEL FARDEN. Licensed in 2010 as a registered nurse (RN), Farden, earned his bachelor’s degree in nursing in 2012 from Western University. He joined Oswego Health as an RN in the Emergency Department in 2015, then later transitioned as a utilization RN in case management in 2016 while continuing his schooling. In 2019, Farden received licensure as an FNP and worked per diem with the Oswego Health Hospitalist team as an NP. 

MELISSA SCHMIDT has joined Upstate Urology at Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) as a certified family nurse practitioner, where she will provide care to patients of all ages. Schmidt has more than 10 years of nursing experience at MVHS in inpatient post-operative care and vascular surgery. Schmidt earned her master’s family nurse practitioner degree from Utica College. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Jacksonville University in Florida.

SVETLANA PETROVETS, MD, has joined the MVHS Medical Group medical office in Washington Mills, where she provides primary-care services to patients of all ages. Petrovets earned her medical degree from the Grodno State Medical University in Grodno, Belarus. She performed her residency at the St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency Program in Utica. She also earned both her bachelor’s degree in nursing and her master’s nurse practitioner degree in from SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Marcy. Dr. Petrovets has eight years of experience as a pediatrician in her home country of Belarus. She began her career at MVHS as a registered nurse, where she worked for five years. After completing a year as a family nurse practitioner, she started her residency at the Sister Rose Vincent Family Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Petrovets is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. She is a member of the American Medical Association and American Academy of Family Physicians.

REBECCA SCOTT recently joined Raymour & Flanigan as its new senior brand manager. Her focus will be on product marketing, brand purpose/cause marketing, brand communications and PR, and overseeing influencer marketing. Scott has years of experience working in integrated marketing. She previously worked for more than seven years at integrated-marketing communications firm, Pinckney Hugo Group in Syracuse. Scott is a Syracuse native and graduate of Syracuse University.