2003

Dr. Cynthia Ambres, Chief Medical Officer & Executive Vice President of Kaleida Health announced the following medical appointments:

Ivan D'Souza, MD has assumed the role of Clinical Services Director for Obstetrics and Gynecology for all of Kaleida Health. Dr. D'Souza has been associated with Kaleida hospitals since he began practicing in Buffalo ten years ago. After completing his medical school training and residency at the University of Western Ontario, he practiced for several years in London, Ontario. Dr. D'Souza was the first in Canada and among the first in the world to perform a laparoscopic hysterectomy. He is Associate Clinical Professor at the University of Buffalo and has twice received an award from chief residents for his excellence in academic and clinical teaching.

Dr. Michael Caty has assumed the position of Surgeon-in-Chief and Clinical Director of Surgical Services at the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo (WCHOB). Dr. Caty has been a surgeon at WCHOB for nine years, having completed post-graduate training at two of the country's most respected institutions, Children's Hospital in Boston and the University of Michigan Medical Center. In addition to his surgical expertise, he has published extensively and been asked to present at many national meetings. Recently, he was named to the prestigious Society of University Surgeons. He is Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Buffalo. Always an advocate for medical excellence, he plans to work with the Women & Children's surgical team to enhance its regional and national reputation in particular areas of excellence.

According to Dr. Ambres, "Kaleida Health is looking to expand and enhance our women's services and we are in the midst of a creating a strategic plan to help us define those services. Both Dr. D'Souza and Dr. Caty will play key roles in that work. Dr. D'Souza will work throughout Kaleida's five acute care hospitals as we provide enhanced services to women of all ages. In addition to leading the expert surgical team at the Women & Children's Hospital, Dr. Caty will help us expand the surgical services we will be offering to women."

Kaleida Health, the 39th largest health system in the US, is an article 28 not- for-profit primarily serving the eight counties of Western New York. Kaleida Health has 1800 affiliated physicians and 1800 beds - 1200 for acute care and 600 are for long term care patients. Its annual patient encounters total one million, 350,000 of which are non-duplicated. Kaleida Health is comprised of five (5) acute care hospitals, four (4) long-term care facilities, multiple ambulatory sites, primary care clinics, a Visiting Nursing Association that runs two (2) home care agencies and Kaleida Laboratories which handle 9 million specimens annually for regional and national institutions.

Kaleida Health serves as the major teaching affiliate of the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Dental Medicine. The Kaleida hospitals are Buffalo General, the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo (WCHOB), DeGraff Memorial, and Millard Fillmore Gates and Suburban Hospitals. The WCHOB is the New York State designated regional perinatal center. Kaleida Health physicians serve as the team physicians for the NFL Buffalo Bills and the NHL Buffalo Sabres.