Alumni Connection Health Professions Alumni Association News SUNY Upstate Medical University 326 Campus Activities Building 750 East Adams Street Syracuse, New York 13210 www.upstatefoundation.org/chpalumni/ VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY Do you like to organize? The Health Professions Alumni Association is looking for volunteers to help organize and archive our photo library. This includes digital and hard copy photos, recent and from years past. If interested, please contact us at chpalum@upstate.edu or 315-464-4416. Behavior Analysis Studies students integral to new center The new Golisano Center for Special Needs will provide comprehensive, coordinated and scientifically based medical and behavioral care for children and adolescents with many types of intellectual and developmental disabilities. Along with significant expansion of capacity for clinical services will come the need for additional skilled professionals. To that end, the College of Health Professions has developed a new Behavior Analysis Studies (BAS) master’s degree program. The six-semester (24-month) program includes didactic instruction and practicum experience, and is designed to prepare students to apply data collection and analysis to implement evidence-based treatments for individuals with autism. Hank Roane, PhD, center back, and the team from the Family Behavior Analysis Clinic welcomed Dean Katherine Beissner, seated right, Alumni Director Mary Knepper, standing left, and several Upstate Foundation staff members for a tour. The clinic will move into the Golisano Center for Special Needs when it is completed. Roane is the clinic director and chair of the BAS program. When the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital marked its 10th birthday last September, officials announced a new $3 million gift from Paychex founder and philanthropist Tom Golisano toward establishing a center for special needs at Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital to help meet an urgent and growing community need. Behavior analysts are licensed health care professionals who provide therapeutic services for individuals with autism and related disorders. Service delivery might include conducting assessments of problem behavior or language deficits, developing treatments to reduce problem behavior and increase pro-social behavior, consulting, and caregiver training. The Center will also promote ongoing research into the root causes of and new treatments for intellectual and developmental disabilities, especially autism. Students in the BAS program are active participants in the research. The first cohort of three BAS students will graduate in May.
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