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About Us

The American Federation of Government Employees represents the Professional Bargaining Unit at the Canandaigua Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 

This includes over 200 professionals working to serve the veterans In Canandaigua, New York.

Those professionals include Doctors, Dentists, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians Assistants, Registered Nurses, Psychologists, Recreational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Kinseotherapists, Audiologists, Speech Therapists, Chaplains and the Information Specialists at Canandaigua VAMC.

Our Mission

This Web Sight is dedicated to the professionals at the Canandaigua VAMC and the dedicated care they provide to the men and women of the Armed Forces who served our nation in it's time of need.

It's purpose is to provide those professionals and their families with up to date information on the topics that are import to their continued practice and items of interest regarding their future of our facility.



Union Officers


PRESIDENT: Mrs. Colleen M. Combs, RN
EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT: Mrs. Joi Washburn, RN
   
VICE-PRESIDENT:  Dr. Roger Lyman, PhD
   
SECRETARY/TREASURER (Acting) Ms. Joanne Wisnieski, RPh.
   
CHIEF-STEWARD: (Acting) Mr. Allen Chopik, RN
   
STEWARDS: Mrs. Colleen Combs, RN
  Mrs. Joi Washburn, RN
  Dr. Roger Lyman, PhD
  Ms. Beth Chopik, RN
  Mr. John Tripodi, RN
  Mr. Allen Chopik, RN





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