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Upstate Departments Offer Wide Range of Surgery Expertise SURGERY With more than 40 fellowship-trained surgeons, Upstate's Department of Surgery is the region's largest surgical practice. It is available 24/7 as a resource for patients with complex surgical problems in the Central New York region and serves Upstate's Level 1 trauma center. Its divisions of surgery include: Acute Care; Bariatrics; Cardiac; Dentistry; General (Thyroid, Gallbladder, Hernia); Minimally Invasive and Robotic; Pediatric; Surgical Oncology (Breast; Colorectal; Endocrine; Hepatobiliary); Plastics; Thoracic; Trauma and Acute Care; Transplant Surgery; and Vascular and Endovascular. The department supports many multidisciplinary services. NEUROSURGERY The Upstate Brain & Spine Center has 11 faculty from the Department of Neurosurgery. The practice offers comprehensive neurosurgical services for a wide range of conditions related to the brain and spine, including brain tumors, pituitary tumors, degenerative spinal diseases, AVMs, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, stroke, and neck and back pain. Advanced technology includes the Gamma Knife, Gamma Tile, endoscopy, the ROSA robot, laser ablation and an intraoperative MRI surgical suite. The department, together with the Department of Neurology, has formed the new Upstate Neurological Institute to be the starting point for care. OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY The department furnishes medical advice, education, and treatment in the entire range of reproductive health. This includes services for adolescents, women in the childbearing age and the peri- and post-meno- pausal years. Recent surgical expansion includes the Gynecologic Oncology program at the Upstate Cancer Center, with four surgeons from the department offer- ing a full range of diagnostic, surgical and therapeutic options for malignancies at two locations. OPHTHALMOLOGY The Center for Vision Care is a full-service ophthal- mology center and the home of Upstate's Department of Ophthalmology. The Center for Vision Care provides a wide variety of eye-care services, from compre- hensive eye exams, to treatment of eye disease, to complex ophthalmic microsurgery. It is the only area center to perform glaucoma surgery on children. The Department also has a robust research arm with the Upstate Vision Research Center which seeks the fundamental understanding of vision, from molecules to cells and tissues to visual perception, and to apply this knowledge to finding cures for blindness. ORTHOPEDICS Upstate Orthopedics has 21 fellowship-trained surgeons specializing in all areas of orthopedics. In addition to its Fly Road site, this practice anchors Upstate Community Hospital Orthopedics, and its sur- geons utilize the area's only MAKOplasty, an advanced robotic arm technology that allows for more accurate hip and knee replacement. Surgeons perform a variety of procedures at this location — including inpatient and outpatient hip and knee replacement — and the surgical skills of three Upstate Orthopedic surgeons contributed to the facility earning distinction as a DNV Center of Excellence. OTOL ARYNGOLOGY The Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery depart- ment, also known as Upstate ENT, has dedicated specialists in each area of otolaryngology who provide expert care for patients. Comprehensive ENT services are available to adults and children and specialties include allergy; pediatric; craniofacial-cleft; hear- ing/otology/neurotology; head and neck, including cancer; facial plastics/reconstructive; voice/swallow; and rhinology-sinus/skull base. The department is committed to education and research as well as patient care, and performs life changing humanitarian work, including surgery for facial deformities and the aftermath of abuse, locally and abroad. UROLOGY Upstate Urology is a team of 23 surgeons who provide comprehensive care for men, women and children. With fellowship-trained specialists in nearly every urological discipline, they treat a wide range of diseases and conditions including incontinence, infertility, kidney stones, bladder, kidney and prostate cancer, enlarged prostate, undescended testicles and ureteral strictures. They offer the latest treatments and technology — such as Blue Light Cystoscopy and UroNav — and specialize in reconstructive, robotic and laparoscopic surgery. Research includes clinical trials and NIH-funded studies. UPSTATE CANCER CENTER The Upstate Cancer Center offers surgery from many departments in its multidisciplinary approach, which includes radiation oncology and medical oncology to create teams dedicated to the patient's type of cancer. M D N E W S . C O M /// M D N E W S C E N T R A L N E W Y O R K ■ 2 0 21 0 7

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