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staff. With support from Dr. Corona and other hospital leaders, Dr. Tucker works in collaboration with a well-being task force to combat physician burnout. She also works with an EHR usability group in partnership with the IT department. To improve access to care, Dr. Tucker notes that Upstate is expanding specialty services to key areas and, in July, welcomed its first class of family medicine residents. Upstate will connect these trainees with local physician practices in the hope that many will stay to establish their careers in Central New York, thereby helping alleviate a shortage of primary care physicians in the region. "Our new leadership team is committed to serving the people of Central New York," Dr. Tucker says. "We are working to create a healing environment, educate the next generation of healers, and pioneer new diagnostics and therapeutics to provide cutting- edge care." LAWRENCE CHIN, MD, FAANS, FACS Dr. Chin is the Interim Dean of the College of Medicine and Robert B. and Molly G. King Professor of Neurosurgery at Upstate Medical University. In the eight years since he arrived as Chair of Neurosurgery at Upstate University Hospital, Dr. Chin has been an integral part of a surge of growth and innovation that established the Upstate Brain and Spine Center and has produced a variety of programs and services found nowhere else in Central New York. These include a pediatric neurosurgery program, epilepsy surgery program, the Gamma Knife center, an intraoperative MRI suite for brain surgery, among others. The department's surgeons also support the Upstate Comprehensive Stroke Center and its Level I trauma center. In October, Dr. Chin witnessed the opening of a facility that is especially significant to him: Upstate's new multispecialty outpatient building at the Township 5 mixed-use development in Camillus. A collaboration between the hospital and Upstate University Medical Associates at Syracuse (UUMAS) — Upstate's faculty practice plan — the Township 5 building includes fam- ily medicine, cardiolog y,orthopedic surgery, pulmonolog y, rheumatology,neurosurgery, neurology, pain medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, urology, otolaryngology, vascular surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral health clinics, as well as a laboratory, radiology services and a physical therapy suite. D r. C h i n c r e d it s D r. C or on a for s p e a rh e a d i n g t h e Township 5 project during his time as head of UUMAS, a role that rotates among department chairs. Dr. Chin continued the effort when he assumed leadership of the faculty practice plan. "We've never had a collaboration on this scale between the physician practices and the hospital, but it was easy because everyone bought in to the importance of this project," Dr. Chin says. "Working together to accomplish this goal in less than two years — from planning to opening — shows a great degree of integration between the physicians and hospital leadership." The support of leadership played an integral role in the estab- lishment of a new neurosurgery outpatient clinic at Upstate Community Hospita l (recently known as the Community Campus.) The clinic is scheduled to open January 2020. "Upstate is about people," Dr. Chin says. "It's about treating our patients and staff with respect, and using the best technology available to deliver treatment." G. RANDALL GREEN, MD, JD, MBA The Director of the Upstate Heart Institute, Dr. Green joined Upstate University Hospital in 2017 and was determined to do nothing less than change how patients receive heart care in Central New York. "I'm excited about the opportunity to create a regional academic center of excellence in heart care," Dr. Green says. "Upstate has the resources, and now, under the direction of Upstate Medical University Interim President Mantosh Dewan, MD, and Drs. Corona and Chin, we have the highest level of leadership Upstate Heart Institute Director G. Randall Green, MD, MBA, JD, continues his work as a leading cardiac surgeon while building on existing strengths toward the vision of an institute that reflects the full scope of the interrelated mission — patient care, medical education, research and community service. Cardiologist Mark Charlamb, MD, recently brought an eight-physcian practice to Upstate, essentially doubling the number of cardiology faculty and increasing the number of outpatient sites to six. Patients will have streamlined care with greater access to other experts and treatments, as needed. The expansion also secures the safety net services for vulnerable patients. Surgeon Ranjna Sharma, MD, Medical Director of the Breast Cancer Program, was recruited from Beth Israel Deaconess and Harvard to grow and develop an academic breast cancer program. Her arrival expanded the team to four dedicated breast surgeons, with reach to underserved areas. Her aims include to increase investigator-initiated research and promote community outreach. Innovation and Leadership for Care 0 8 0 8❱❱❱❱❱ C O V E R F E A T U R E

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