EDUCATION
■ ALBANY LAW SCHOOL Will Trevor joined the school as assistant dean and director of online graduate programs. Trevor previously worked as director of undergraduate business programs at Excelsior College. He has teaching experience at schools in the United Kingdom and the U.S. including at Sage College of Albany and Maria College. The school has offered online programs since 2016.
■ ROCKEFELLER INSTITUTE OF GOVERNMENT
Named Laura Schultz as the first female executive director of research in the history of the institute. Schultz joined the institute in 2018 as the director of fiscal analysis and senior economist. She previously taught economics and served as commercialization adviser to collegiate entrepreneurs at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
She received her doctorate in economics from George Washington University in 2007.
FINANCIAL
■ ADNET TECHNOLOGIES Named Lynette Maffei vice president and chief financial officer. She will also be appointed to the company’s newly formed Executive Leadership Team. Maffei joined ADNET in 2015 as controller, overseeing financial operations in Farmington, Conn., and Albany. She has a bachelor’s degree business administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
HEALTH CARE
■ ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER
Dr. Lee Shapiro joined the Division of Rheumatology and is seeing patients at Albany Med Malta in Ballston Spa. Shapiro specializes in treating patients with scleroderma, a chronic autoimmune disease that causes hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissues. He also serves as chief medical officer for the Ann Steffens Scleroderma Research Foundation and has been honored as the Doctor of the Year by the Scleroderma Foundation. His medical degree is from Columbia University.
■ NORTHERN RIVERS FAMILY OF SERVICES
Dr. Jeffrey Daly joined as a psychiatrist and Jennifer Eslick, executive program director of crisis services, will also oversee the organization’s office of mental health residential programs. Daly was most recently medical director of child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient services for 20 years at Four Winds Hospital. He will
Physician Assistant John O’shea joined the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Orthopedics Department and Dartmouth-hitchcock Putnam Medical Group. O’shea earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a master’s degree in physician assistant studies from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Since 2018, O’shea has worked as a physician assistant at Orthopedics Northeast in Andover, Mass.
PROFESSIONS
■ WHITEMAN OSTERMAN AND HANNA LLP
Announced Susan M. Didonato as new of counsel. Didonato was previously in-house counsel at Questar BOCES for 17 years. She has also served as counsel to the state Department of State. She received her juris doctor degree from Union University, Albany Law School and her bachelor’s degree from SUNY Oneonta. She has more than 30 years of experience practicing law.
■ WILTWYCK RURAL CEMETERY
Matthew Sirni was appointed superintendent. Sirni, most recently the operations manager at the cemetery, replaces Edward Voss who served as superintendent for 38 years. Sirni, a native of Kingston, is a volunteer with the Hurley Fire Department, Lower Adirondack Search and Rescue and Cross Point Fellowship in Kingston.
— Rick Clemenson