JESSICA YEARBY has joined the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Surgical Group in Utica as a certified family nurse practitioner, where she will provide pre- and post-operative care to patients. Yearby has more than 13 years of nursing experience at MVHS in the Intensive Care and Neuro/Trauma Intensive Care Units. Yearby earned her family nurse practitioner master’s degree from SUNY Polytechnic University in Marcy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Utica College.

MUZEYYEN ERCANLI, MD, has joined the MVHS Medical Group as an obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) at the MVHS Women’s Health Center and MVHS OB Care Center, where she will provide inpatient and outpatient care. Dr. Ercanli has more than 15 years of experience in the OB/GYN specialty and joins MVHS from Heights Medical, a private practice in Brooklyn. She specializes in providing care to women across the continuum of care, including prenatal, antepartum and postpartum gynecological care. She also provides support and care to women through the perimenopause and menopausal processes. Ercanli earned her medical degree from Uludag University in Bursa, Turkey. She performed her OB/GYN residency at Suleymaniye Maternity and Women’s Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. She completed an additional OB/GYN residency at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Jersey. She is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

CATHERINE A. RAY has joined Bousquet Holstein as an associate attorney in the firm’s Trust & Estates and Elder Care Practice Group and will work in the firm’s Syracuse and Ithaca offices. Prior to joining Bousquet Holstein, Ray worked with clients at a private law practice preparing estate-planning documents, including last wills and testaments and revocable and irrevocable trusts. In addition, she advised and represented small-business owners on various employee benefits/ERISA matters affecting compliance of their qualified retirement plans, including identifying qualification failures and working with clients to ensure their qualified plans were appropriately corrected. Ray also worked with clients to ensure they had policies in place to avoid future qualification failures. Originally from northern Virginia, she is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law. Ray earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Virginia Tech. While in law school, she focused her studies on estate planning and administration, and federal tax law, graduating with an estate-planning certificate. Her experiences also include externing at a policy think-tank in Washington D.C.; providing services to indigent clients as a student attorney in the law school’s Bankruptcy Clinic; and externing at the Surrogate’s Court in Manhattan.

JULIANNE RAMSEY has been appointed to assistant VP of information-technology solutions and services for SRC, Inc.’s electronic warfare and services division. In this role, Ramsey will serve as a senior leader, managing a large team that spans across the United States. She will direct and grow the ITSS business unit that provides engineering and integration services, environmental analysis, CBRN solutions, and cybersecurity Ramsey brings more than 35 years of military and professional experience in operations, strategic planning, and business capture. Ramsey has been with SRC for 15 years, most recently as director of technical services, providing professional, technical, and analytical support services for operations and intelligence-relevant activities in the defense industry. Ramsey has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from University of Virginia and a master’s degree in computer resources and information management from Webster University in Colorado Springs, Colorado.