Upstate Medical University researcher Mark Miller and his family live in a wooded area where they like to hike with their dog-making them a prime target for ticks.
 
								Global Health Institute
 
								Upstate Medical University researcher Mark Miller and his family live in a wooded area where they like to hike with their dog-making them a prime target for ticks.
 
								Upstate’s Global Health Institute has moved most of its operations off campus to a 13,000-square-foot space in an East Syracuse office park.
 
								The CDC could soon change the guidelines for COVID-19 isolation, raising some eyebrows for local medical experts.
 
								COVID-19 cases are rising across the country; the same can be said here in Central New York. Doctors warned of a spread of COVID-19 cases following holiday gatherings, and the numbers are starting to reflect that.
 
								Dr. Stephen Thomas, then the division chief of infectious disease at SUNY Upstate Medical University, became a household name in Central New York when Covid-19 was declared a global outbreak in March 2020.
 
								Upstate Medical University’s Institute for Global Health and Translational Sciences will host a summit in August dealing with dengue, a serious mosquito-borne illness.
 
								Stephen J. Thomas, M.D., an infectious diseases physician and researcher who serves as a professor of medicine and microbiology and immunology at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, will be the speaker at Le Moyne’s graduate commencement ceremony on Friday, May 19 at 7 p.m. in the Event Center.