Following a very competitive national search process, Kaleida Health appointed Larry Zielinski as president of Buffalo General in June 2008.
Larry also serves as president for the Visiting Nursing Association of WNY, Inc. and oversees Family Pharmaceutical Services, LLC operations. He has consistently demonstrated exceptional leadership that has resulted in significant growth of Kaleida Health home care services and unprecedented patient and doctor satisfaction scores.

Prior to the Kaleida Health merger, Larry was vice president of Ancillary and Support Services at Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, as well as president of Children’s Hospital Home Care. His rich business background and deep appreciation for those who provide the service will benefit both Buffalo General employees and those they deliver care to.

Larry holds an MBA in Finance and a BA in Sociology from the University at Buffalo. He is the First Vice President and President-elect of the Board of the University at Buffalo Alumni Association and a Past President of the UB School of Management Alumni Association. He is also an active member of the National Association of Home Care, the Visiting Nurse Association of America, and the Home Care Association of New York.

Dan Morelli M.D. has been a physician in Kaleida Health facilities for over 25 years. Following graduation from the SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, he completed his residency in family practice based at the Deaconess “Hospital”. While in his residency, he “moonlit” as an emergency department physician at the Millard Fillmore hospitals, and following his graduation from the family practice program worked full time as an emergency department attending at Millard Fillmore hospitals until he joined the faculty of the Department of Family Medicine at SUNYAB.

His first administrative position was the medical director of the Deaconess Family Medicine Center. He then served as the residency program director and managed the program transition to BGH when the Deaconess hospital became a skilled nursing facility. When the Millard Fillmore hospitals opened a residency in family practice, he accepted the appointment as Chairman of the Department of Family Practice at the hospitals, and organized the development of the residency that included establishing the Louis Lazar Family Medicine Center as a teaching practice on the Suburban campus. After another tour of duty as program director for the residency, he was appointed as Clinical Service Director of Family Practice for the newly formed Kaleida Health system.

In 2002 he accepted an appointment as Chief Medical Officer at Suburban Hospital and continues to serve as Chief of Service for family practice. Over all those years he held a faculty appointment in the Department of Family Medicine at the State University of New York School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and is currently a Professor of Clinical Family Medicine. He continues to supervise residents in the program and teach medical students.

Dr. Morelli and his wife, Roseanne Berger M.D, have three children- a son who loves to row and is gainfully employed in Boston MA, a daughter who is a junior at Vassar College, and their youngest son who plays soccer and is a freshman in high school. After several years on the squash court, Dan is on a quest for “continuous quality improvement” of his tennis skills.

Colleen brings more than 25 years of nursing experience and administrative leadership at Buffalo General to the chief nursing officer role. Her goals, values and objectives have always focused on best practice in nursing, patient safety, quality and the implementation of cutting-edge programs for innovative and effective care delivery.

Colleen will maintain her current responsibilities as director, Patient Safety & Quality, while working with the executive team to continue improving the practice of nursing and patient care at Buffalo General. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Niagara University and a master’s from the State University of New York at Buffalo Nursing School.