Garnet Health promotes three in IT

MIDDLETOWN, NY — Michael Lorenzo, Regina Carey and Katie Haun have all been promoted within Garnet Health’s Information Technology department.

Lorenzo is now the network security director. He joined Garnet Health in 2016 as a network security engineer, and since then has strengthened cybersecurity and implemented programs throughout the system.

Carey, a registered nurse, has taken over as manager of business intelligence. She joined Garnet Health in August 2018 as a senior business analytics analyst. She will now assume direct oversight of Garnet Health’s business intelligence requests.

Haun is the new regulatory compliance manager. She joined the organization in 2015 working within the quality department, transitioned into IT as a business intelligence analyst and in 2020 became an IT regulatory compliance analyst.

For more information, visit https://www.garnethealth.org/.

Garnet Health names pharmacy 340B program manager

MIDDLETOWN, NY — David Gao has taken over as pharmacy 340B program manager for Garnet Health.

The medical center implemented the 340B program in 2021; the program was created by Congress to allow qualified providers and their outpatient facilities to purchase outpatient drugs from manufacturers at discount prices. This, according to a hospital spokesman, helps uninsured and low-income patients gain access to needed medication.

Prior to joining Garnet Health Medical Center, Dr. Gao worked at NYU Langone Perlmutter Cancer Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and has extensive experience in the areas of sterile compounding and chemotherapeutic regimens. He has a doctor of pharmacy degree from St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and an MBA from SUNY Oswego.

To learn more about career opportunities at Garnet Health, visit https://www.garnethealth.org/careers.

New director of gastroenterology fellowship at the Wright Center

SCRANTON, PA — The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education recently named Dr. Vikas Khurana the director of its Gastroenterology Fellowship program.

A graduate of the University of Delhi’s Maulana Azad Medical College in India, Dr. Khurana completed his residency in internal medicine at the SUNY Health Science Center in Brooklyn, NY, and a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Miami School of Medicine in Miami, FL.

The gastroenterology fellowship program is one of several offered by the Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education. It provides enhanced care for patients with gastrointestinal disorders in northeast Pennsylvania and strengthens the local health care workforce in the specialty.

Over the course of three years, fellows gain experience in inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology and hepatology, including the mastery of procedural skills.   

For more information about the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education, go to https://thewrightcenter.org or call 570/230-0019.