Clinical Training Sites
Resident education occurs at these facilities in Syracuse, NY:
- Upstate University Hospital
- St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center

- Crouse Hospital

- VA Hospital

- Upstate New York Poison Center
- Emergency Medicine Simulation Technology & Training (EM-STAT) Center
These clinical sites allow for a wide variety of patient interactions. Indigent and insured, urban and rural, primary and tertiary care patients are all found in these various clinical sites, giving Upstate EM Residents a large breadth of experience and preparing them well for future practice in nearly any clinical environment from large academic centers to small community EDs.
William Paolo, MD
Assistant Professor &
Residency Director
Residency Leadership

Thomas Lavoie, MD
Assistant Professor &
Associate Program Director
Elliot Rodriguez, MD, FACEP
Assistant Professor &
Assistant Program Director
Thomas K. Weidman, MD
Assistant Professor &
Assistant Program Director
Matthew J Sarsfield, MD
Assistant Professor &
Assistant Program Director