Division of Hospital Medicine

Hospital Medicine, Downtown Campus
Campus West Building (CWB) - Room 320
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
Map & directions
Phone: 315 464-5774
Fax: 315 464-5378
Name: Leah Melfi
Email: [email protected]

A hospitalist is a physician dedicated to the care of the hospitalized patient. The hospitalist program at SUNY Upstate Medical University has full time hospitalists, physician assistants and nurse practitioners who are responsible for general medicine teams and the medicine consultation service. Duties include direct patient care, student/resident education and quality improvement initiatives.

Our Team

Housam Hegazy, MD, FACP
Chief of Hospital Medicine,
Medical Director of Utilization Management,
Medical Director of Hospital Medicine

Joshua D Beckler, MD
315 492-5305
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Hospital Medicine; Internal Medicine

Jamie Bunting, NP
315 464-6267
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Provider

Ilona Chepak, MD
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine

Timothy M Creamer, MD
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Medicine; Hospital Medicine; Acute Illness & Injury Management; Chronic Disease Management
Education: New York Medical College
Associations/Memberships: Society for Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM); Onondaga County Medical Society; Medical Society of The State of New York; New York State Society of Internal Medicine

Ian F Dargon, MD
315 464-5774

Parth D Desai, MD
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine

Carolee R Dornau, MSN, ANP, FNP
315 464-7843
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Family Medicine; Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients; Chronic Disease Management; Health Maintenance & Clinical Prevention; Primary Care

Research Interests:

Evaluation of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Army National Guard Soldiers Returning From Iraq. Co-investigator in collaboration with Syracuse VA. Study in progress.

Clinical Interests:

Travel Medicine

Military Health and Combat Injuries

Associations/Memberships: Syracuse Nurse Practitioner Association; Sigma Theta Tau, Omicron Chapter (International Honor Society of Nursing); Society of Hospital Medicine

Sakshi Dutta, MD
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine

Harvir Singh Gambhir, MD
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine
Education: Santosh Medical College, Uttar Prasdesh, India

Tanya George, MD, FACP, CHCQM
315 492-5305
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Internal Medicine; Acute Illness & Injury Management; Chronic Disease Management
Education: Maulana Azad Medical College

Ghanshyam Ghelani, MD
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients
Education: B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Matthew G Glidden, MD
315 492-5551
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine; Acute Illness & Injury Management; Chronic Disease Management
Education: SUNY Upstate Medical University

Hayas Haseer Koya, MBBS
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine

Housam Hegazy, MD, MBA, MLS, CPE, SFHM, FACP, CHCQM
315 464-7020
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Internal Medicine; Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients
Education: University of Damascus, Syria

Research Interests:

Coronary Artery Disease

Clinical Interests: Heart disease; Hypertension; Diabetes; Dyslipidemia; COPD/Asthma; Arthritis; Headache; Preventive medicine.

Associations/Memberships: American College of Physicians (ACP), Fellow; Society of Hospital Medicine, Senior Fellow

Susi Koshy, FNP, DNP-C
315 415-5979
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Provider

Michael D Kuhn, MD
315 492-5305
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Family Medicine; Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine

Jivan Lamichhane, MD
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine; Acute Illness & Injury Management; Chronic Disease Management
Education: Nepal Medical College

Education Interests:

Artficial Intelligence.

Medical Informatics

Clinical Interests:

Pulmonary Ultrasound and POCUS

High Altitude Medicine

Associations/Memberships: American Medical Informatics Association; Society of Hospital Medicine

Aisha Lubega, FNP-C, MSN
315 464-6579
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients; Acute Illness & Injury Management; Chronic Disease Management
Associations/Memberships: Sigma Theta Tau, Omicron Chapter (International Honor Society of Nursing)

Amitpal S Nat, MD
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients
Education: Medical University of Lublin, Poland

Clinical Interests:

Influenza, Sepsis, Anticoagulation

Associations/Memberships: American College of Physicians (ACP); American Medical Association

Lauren E Nickels, NP
315 464-6572
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Provider

Zaher M Oueida, MBCHB
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients

Clinical Interests:

Pulmonary Medicine
Critical Care

Associations/Memberships: American College of Physicians (ACP); American Medical Association

Sanchit Panda, MBBS, MD
315 464-5774

Zachary J Shepherd, MD, FACP
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients; Medical Emergencies
Education: SUNY Upstate Medical University
Associations/Memberships: American College of Physicians (ACP)