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Richard Schulick Tapped to Serve as UR Medicine’s First-Ever Chief Clinical Officer

• Oct. 17, 2025

A seasoned healthcare executive and current director of the NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and chair of Surgery at the University of Colorado, Schulick will join the University of ...

A Year of Wellbeing: A Q&A With Craig Rooney

• Jul. 24, 2025

The Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation recently designated URMC as a Wellbeing First Champion, recognizing our commitment to ensuring that the more than 5,000 clinicians credentialed across ...

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Becker's Hospital Review Features URMC Wellbeing Fellowship

• Jul. 23, 2025

The Office of Wellbeing's new Wellbeing Fellowship program was featured in Becker's Hospital Review in March. Learn more about the program and why URMC looks at wellbeing as a team sport.

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Dumping the Status Quo: Office of Wellbeing Offers Innovative Workshop Series

• Jul. 16, 2025

The exercise is simple but revealing. Write a letter to the status quo. Tell it you’re done, fed up, finished. Maybe it’s those 7 a.m. meetings, or maybe it’s feeling like you have to apologize for ...

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Remembering Ray Mayewski: An Innovative CMO and a Doctors’ Doctor

• Jul. 14, 2025

Whatever the situation, whatever the challenge, Ray Mayewski maintained a simple maxim: If you’re unsure what to do, ask what would be best for the patients, and do it. It was an idea that Mayewski, ...

Struggling to Manage Uncertainty? Try These 6 Tips from the Office of Wellbeing

• Feb. 18, 2025

There's a lot of uncertainty around us - and that can often be anxiety-provoking. While it can feel very uncomfortable, it doesn't have to keep us from taking care of ourselves and one another, said ...

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URMC Appoints Dynamic Wellbeing Leadership Team

• Nov. 10, 2023

Two passionate well-being advocates will lead the first institution-wide Wellbeing office, using their complementary skills and backgrounds to improve the work and study environment.

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URMC Bioethicist Lainie Ross Elected to National Academy of Medicine

• Oct. 9, 2023

An internationally renowned bioethicist who is building a bold new department at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Ross has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), an ...

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Why You Need to Have This Dreaded Conversation with Your Doctor

• May. 15, 2023

Former President Jimmy Carter’s recent decision to enter hospice care spurred a national conversation about end-of-life issues—the kind of conversation more of us should be having with our doctors...

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Judith Baumhauer to Serve as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

• Nov. 21, 2022

Baumhauer, a long-time faculty leader and tenured professor of Orthopaedics, will assume the role on Dec. 1. As senior associate dean, Baumhauer will oversee faculty appointments and reappointments, ...

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Myths Busted: New Studies Show Telemedicine is Effective, Doesn’t Reduce Access to Care

• Sep. 21, 2022

Common concerns about telemedicine don’t hold up to scrutiny, a first-of-its-kind study highlighting telemedicine’s effectiveness concludes.

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Miracle Kids 2021: Wyatt Robson

• Aug. 7, 2021

For Sarah Robson, the hardest and best moments of her son Wyatt’s 422-day hospitalization came within minutes of each other as the four-week-old’s health failed one night in 2018.

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Super Gratitude for the Super Bowl: UR Medicine Thanks Staff, Faculty, Community in New Ad

• Feb. 3, 2021

Some will cheer for the Chiefs, some for the Buccaneers in Sunday’s Super Bowl. But everyone can cheer for the health care workers who have responded with unending dedication amid the COVID-19 ...

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Ruth O’Regan Named Department of Medicine Chair

• Sep. 23, 2020

Ruth O’Regan, M.D., chief of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care at the University of Wisconsin, has been named the next Charles A. Dewey Professor and Chair of Medicine at the ...

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Michael J. Apostolakos to Serve as Chief Medical Officer of Strong Memorial and Highland Hospitals

• Nov. 9, 2017

Michael J. Apostolakos, M.D., who has led Strong Memorial Hospital’s adult critical care program for 20 years, is being named chief medical officer of both Strong and Highland.

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Rotondo Chosen as President-Elect of Leading National Trauma Society

• Oct. 20, 2016

Michael F. Rotondo, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Surgery and CEO of the University of Rochester’s Medical Faculty Group, was recently voted president-elect of The American Association for the Surgery ...