Legal Services honors Community Foundations
Legal Services of the Hudson Valley honored Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley for its support at its first Dutchess Partners in Justice reception Oct. 2. Ninety guests joined staff and trustees of CFHV, elected officials, representatives of local law firms and nonprofit organizations and Legal Services”™ staff and board members for the evening event, which was held at Locust Grove in Poughkeepsie.
Proceeds from the event will support legal services work to save children from neglect, protect women from domestic violence, defend seniors against abuse, serve veterans on the home front, support the rights of the disabled and keep families in their homes.
For more information on Legal Services of the Hudson Valley”™s work, visit lshv.org.
Doctor returns to hometown
Amber N. Mitchell, a neurologist specializing in adults with seizures, returned to her hometown of Kingston and joined Health Quest Medical Practice Division of Neurology at Kingston Neurological Associates. She also joined the medical staff at Northern Dutchess Hospital.
Looking forward to seeing patients, Mitchell said, “Epilepsy is one field in neurology where you can cure someone of their disease. That”™s what led me to this field ”” the science behind what causes a seizure, the problem-solving to find the best treatment and ultimately helping the patient.”
Mitchell earned her doctorate in medicine from Albany Medical College and completed a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy and a four-year residency in neurology at Albany Medical Center, where she rose to the rank of chief resident of neurology in the 2012-13 academic year.
Her passion for research led her to study the death of brain cells in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer”™s and Parkinson”™s diseases and she has written medical articles about migraine drugs and fibromyalgia pain management.
Fluent in French, she holds a bachelor”™s degree in biology with a minor in psychology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she enrolled in the accelerated physician-scientist biomedical program.
Carriere named administrator
The Greater Hudson Valley Health System (GHVHS) in Middletown appointed Kim Carriere as administrator of patient access management.
Carriere”™s scope of responsibility includes direct oversight of patient access management operations, including pre-registration, centralized scheduling, reception, registration, inpatient bed control, and financial advocates as well as the physician outreach program. She will partner with operations, financial leaders and staff at Catskill Regional and Orange Regional Medical Centers to optimize point-of-service collections and align current processes with best practices.
Carriere has broad experience in revenue-cycle management, which spans more than 18 years within the health care for-profit industry. Prior to joining GHVHS, Carriere served as vice president of operations at Somnia Inc. in New Rochelle. In this role, she had direct oversight of 400-plus provider members with numerous practices operations across the U.S. as well as an international office in India.
She earned her Master of Business Administration degree in health care administration from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., and her Bachelor of Arts degree in communication from Western New England College in Springfield, Mass.
Medical center appoints director
Sharon Geidel has been appointed to nursing unit director for 2 North and the Outpatient Infusion Center at Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown.
Geidel has an extensive nursing background and has worked as a clinical nurse, nurse educator, clinical instructor and most recently as the manager for Connect Care Education with the Bon Secours Charity Health System. She received her Master of Science degree in nursing from Excelsior College in 2009 and most recently earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Capella University.
Apps joins TD Bank
TD Bank has named David E. Apps as vice president, senior relationship manager in commercial lending, based in New Windsor. He is responsible for maintaining and growing a portfolio of loans and cross-selling TD Bank”™s products and services to existing and prospective clients in the lower Hudson Valley.
Apps has 42 years of experience in corporate and commercial banking, lending and bank management. Prior to joining TD Bank, he served in a similar commercial lending role at Sterling National Bank. He also worked for 35 years at The Royal Bank of Scotland and has held management positions in London, Toronto, Dallas and New York City.
A resident of Chester, Apps earned distinction in the United Kingdom as an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.
SUNY Orange chooses Lab School chief
SUNY Orange has named Milenis Gonzalez as the director of the Newburgh campus Lab School, the college child care facility.
With more than 13 years of experience, Gonzalez was most recently an early childhood classroom coach at Bank Street College of Education, a lab school in Manhattan. She was involved with a research project at Bank Street that focused on developing math skills in preschool children. That research will be beneficial in shaping the math curriculum at the college”™s Newburgh Lab School.
Gonzalez earned a master”™s degree in early childhood education and has been a director, head preschool teacher and classroom coach.
The Lab School welcomes the children of SUNY Orange students, college faculty and staff, as well as community members in its infant, toddler and preschool rooms. Universal pre-K education on the Newburgh campus is also available in cooperation with the Newburgh Enlarged City School District.
Gujadhur joins Health Quest
Nili Gujadhur has joined the Health Quest Medical Practice Division of Infectious Diseases in Poughkeepsie.
Gujadhur”™s expertise is in hospital-based general infectious disease consultations with special interest in travel medicine, HIV, chronic hepatitis C and antibiotic stewardship.
Previously, she worked with Hudson Infectious Disease Associates in Briarcliff Manor where she oversaw the infection control program, was actively involved in protocol and guideline development and helped establish an antibiotic stewardship program.
Gujadhur received her medical degree from the University of Liverpool in England, completed her internal medicine residency at St. Peter”™s University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J., and completed her fellowship in infectious disease at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. She is board-certified in infectious disease and internal medicine and is also certified by the American Academy of HIV Medicine.
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