GENEVA — UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health announced that its foundation board of directors has elected Mariana Hernandes Fortes Aurich as a new board member. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physiotherapy from the State University of Londrina in Paraná, Brazil, with her master’s focusing on the study of Parkinson’s disease. In […]
GENEVA — UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health announced that its foundation board of directors has elected Mariana Hernandes Fortes Aurich as a new board member.
She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physiotherapy from the State University of Londrina in Paraná, Brazil, with her master’s focusing on the study of Parkinson’s disease. In addition, Aurich completed a residency in intensive care physiotherapy at Inspirar College in Brazil.
Aurich previously served as a research associate in the Neurosurgery Department at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Aurich, originally from Brazil, now lives in Victor with her husband, Dr. Lucas Aurich, neurosurgery director of Geneva General Hospital, and their son, Matheus.
The mission of the Finger Lakes Health Foundation is to cultivate, secure, and steward philanthropic gifts to support the capital, programmatic, and endowment needs of Finger Lakes Health, the organization says.
