Division of Hospital Medicine
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: melfil@rivercitysessions.com
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](http://bfan.rivercitysessions.com/site-assets/images/portraits/hegazyh-250w.jpg)
Housam Hegazy, MD, FACP
Chief of Hospital Medicine,
Medical Director of Utilization Management,
Medical Director of Hospital Medicine
![Joshua D Beckler, MD](/site-assets/images/portraits/becklerj-135w.jpg)
315 492-5305
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Hospital Medicine; Internal Medicine
![Jamie Bunting, NP](/site-assets/images/portraits/hamiltja-135w.jpg)
315 464-6267
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Provider
![Timothy M Creamer, MD](/site-assets/images/portraits/creamert-135w.jpg)
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
![Carolee R Dornau, MSN, ANP, FNP](/site-assets/images/portraits/dornauc-135w.jpg)
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
Evaluation of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Army National Guard Soldiers Returning From Iraq. Co-investigator in collaboration with Syracuse VA. Study in progress.
Travel Medicine
Military Health and Combat Injuries
![Harvir Singh Gambhir, MD](/site-assets/images/portraits/gambhirh-135w.jpg)
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine
Education: Santosh Medical College, Uttar Prasdesh, India
![Tanya George, MD, FACP, CHCQM](/site-assets/images/portraits/georget-135w.jpg)
315 492-5305
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Internal Medicine; Acute Illness & Injury Management; Chronic Disease Management
Education: Maulana Azad Medical College
![Matthew G Glidden, MD](/site-assets/images/portraits/gliddenm-135w.jpg)
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](/site-assets/images/portraits/haseerkh-135w.jpg)
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine
![Housam Hegazy, MD, MBA, MLS, CPE, SFHM, FACP, CHCQM](/site-assets/images/portraits/hegazyh-135w.jpg)
315 464-7020
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Internal Medicine; Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients
Education: University of Damascus, Syria
Coronary Artery Disease
![Susi Koshy, FNP, DNP-C](/site-assets/images/portraits/koshys-135w.jpg)
315 415-5979
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Provider
![Michael D Kuhn, MD](/site-assets/images/portraits/kuhnm-135w.jpg)
315 492-5305
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Family Medicine; Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine
![Jivan Lamichhane, MD](/site-assets/images/portraits/lamichhj-135w.jpg)
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine; Acute Illness & Injury Management; Chronic Disease Management
Education: Nepal Medical College
Artficial Intelligence.
Medical Informatics
Pulmonary Ultrasound and POCUS
High Altitude Medicine
![Aisha Lubega, FNP-C, MSN](/site-assets/images/portraits/lubegaa-135w.jpg)
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](/site-assets/images/portraits/natam-135w.jpg)
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients
Education: Medical University of Lublin, Poland
Influenza, Sepsis, Anticoagulation
![Lauren E Nickels, NP](/site-assets/images/portraits/nickelsl-135w.jpg)
315 464-6572
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Hospital Medicine; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Provider
![Zaher M Oueida, MBCHB](/site-assets/images/portraits/oueidaz-135w.jpg)
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Acute & Chronic Diseases and Conditions in Adult Patients
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Critical Care
![Zachary J Shepherd, MD, FACP](/site-assets/images/portraits/shepherz-135w.jpg)
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)
![Adaora S Udekwu, MD](/site-assets/images/portraits/udekwua-135w.jpg)
315 464-5774
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine
![Jessica L Wagenblatt, FNP-C](/site-assets/images/portraits/wagenblj-135w.jpg)
315 464-5910
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine