Excellus BCBS appoints Lori Florack, Senior VP, Human Capital Management

    Lori Florack has been appointed Senior Vice President of Human Capital Management at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.   Florack most recently served as president of Lifetime Benefit Solutions (LBS), a subsidiary of the Rochesterโ€“based Lifetime Healthcare Companies, where she oversaw the strategic plan and executive leadership of the organization.   โ€œSince joining our team…

SUNY Poly Announces Nearly $200,000 in Funding from National Science Foundation

      SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) announced today that Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Dr. Sivapalan Gajan has received $198,000 in funding as a result of an Engineering Research Initiation award from the National Science Foundation (NSF award number 2138631). The research combines physics with data science, leveraging computational modeling, simulations, and machine…

Better Together in Support of Lupus Research

        With the recruitment of Dr. Maria Kontaridis, Executive Director and Gordon K. Moe Professor at the Masonic Medical Research Institute (MMRI), research focused on autoimmunityโ€”specifically Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (lupus)โ€”became a priority. Little did Dr. Kontaridis know that just 23 miles away, in Verona, NY, an all-volunteer national patient advocacy organization called…