DENISE MOORE has been appointed the new cityline coordinator for the City of Syracuse. In her new role, Moore is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of SYRCityline’s customer-service call center. Her work will include oversight of the hiring, training, and monitoring of the SYRCityline team, in addition to providing constituents with timely responses submitted through the mobile app and web portal. Moore reports directly to Corey Driscoll Dunham, the city’s chief operating officer. For more than 15 years, Moore has worked with youth and their family members in her previous role as director of the Seals Community Center at Kirk Park. Her work involved supervision of center staff, implementation of program activities, acquisition of grants, interfacing with community agencies, and gathering support from local businesses. Before working for the Department of Parks, Recreation & Youth Programs, Moore worked with youth for 11 years as the substance-abuse prevention educator for Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility, Inc., facilitating group meetings and programming for participants.

ROSE ANTILUS, M.D. has joined the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Medical Group as an obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) at the Women’s Health Center, where she will provide outpatient care to women of all ages. Dr. Antilus has more than 15 years of experience in the OB/GYN specialty and joins MVHS from Northwell Health, Southside Hospital in Bayshore, New York, where she worked in the OB/GYN department and served as associate director of quality. Antilus earned her medical degree and performed her OB/GYN residency at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn College of Medicine in Brooklyn, New York. She was administrative chief resident in her last year of residency. Dr. Antilus’ office is located at the Women’s Health Center at 2212 Genesee St. in Utica

RENEE TUGGLE was recently named the next fiscal director of the Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency (MVCAA). She had been serving as the organization’s executive assistant and head of the MVCAA Angels program. Tuggle succeeds interim fiscal director, Valerie Bostwick, who left the nonprofit agency in late June. Tuggle first joined MVCAA — which says it is the frontline resource for people living in poverty in Oneida and Herkimer Counties — in 2003 as a cook for the Early Head Start and Head Start programs. After working as a cook in her first five years at MVCAA, Tuggle then was an administrative assistant for four years, before serving as executive assistant for the past nine years. She worked hard and was able to earn both her associate degree and bachelor’s degree while working full-time at the agency.

DANIEL TREBENDIS has joined the leadership team at ARISE as its director of quality improvement and corporate compliance. He comes to ARISE after working for 12 years at Hillside Children’s Center. He has worked in not-for-profit services for more than 20 years, with much of that time spent in quality, compliance, and risk management. Trebendis received his bachelor’s degree from Le Moyne College and his master’s degree at the University at Albany. ARISE says it is an independent-living center serving people of any age and with any kind of disability, including a mental-health diagnosis. 

TRISTA ROSEN, who previously worked at Raymour & Flanigan for more than 12 years, has returned after a short stint with Starbucks to serve as VP of human resources and talent acquisition. Before returning to Raymour & Flanigan, Rosen served as a partner resource manager at Starbucks from 2019-2021. Her first stint at Raymour & Flanigan was from 2007-2019. She started as a human-resource field specialist and worked her way up to regional VP of human resources. Before that, Rosen was an HR executive at Target (2006-2007) and corporate trainer at Applebee’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill (1998-2005). Rosen will be based in the Raymour & Flanigan field-support center (corporate office) on Morgan Road in Clay. She will also be traveling in the field, working with the HR/talent-acquisition team, as well as Raymour & Flanigan leaders and associates.