Academic Departments

As a teaching hospital and academic medical center, all of Albany Medical Center’s clinicians have faculty appointments at Albany Medical College. These faculty members participate in educating medical students and supervise all residents.

Anesthesiology

Department Chair: Melissa Ehlers, MD interim

Emergency Medicine

Department Chair: Denis Pauze, MD

ENT

Department Chair: Jason Mouzakes, MD

Family Practice

Department Chair: Neil Mitnick, MD

Medicine

Department Chair: Edward Philbin III, MD

Neurology

Department Chair: Panayiotis Varelas, MD

Neurosurgery

Department Chair: Darryl Dirisio, MD

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Department Chair: Rebecca Rogers, MD

Ophthalmology

Department Chair: Edward Wladis, MD

Pathology

Department Chair:

Pediatrics (The Bernard & Millie Duker Children's Hospital)

Department Chair: Barbara Ostrov, MD

Psychiatry

Department Chair: Jeffrey Winseman, MD

Radiation Oncology

Department Chair: Edward Farhangi, MD

Radiology

Department Chair: Gary Siskin, MD

Surgery

Department Chair: KMarie King, MD

Urology

Department Chair: Barry Kogan, MD

Allied Health

Center for Nurse Anesthesiology

Directors: Jodi Della Rocca, PhD and Giovanna Mahar, DNAP

Center for Physician Assistant Studies

Director: Nathan Gardner, DMSC, PA-C