UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health’s Foundation Board of Directors has elected a new board member, Mariana Hernandes Fortes Aurich.
She earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physiotherapy from the State University of Londrina in Paraná, Brazil, with her Master’s focusing on the study of Parkinson’s disease. In addition, she completed a residency in Intensive Care Physiotherapy at Inspirar College in Brazil.
Previously, she served as a Research Associate in the Neurosurgery Department at Yale University in New Haven, CT.
Aurich, originally from Brazil, now lives in Victor with her husband, Lucas Aurich, MD, and their son, Matheus.
The mission of the Finger Lakes Health Foundation is to cultivate, secure, and steward philanthropic gifts to support the capital, programmatic, and endowment needs of Finger Lakes Health. For more information, call (315) 787-4050 or visit www.flhealth.org/Foundation.
