Faculty & Staff Directory

Marie Abdallah, MD
Director of CFH, Kings County Hospital Center
Clinical Associate Professor
Infectious Diseases

Sara Abu-Ghanem, MD, MMedSc
Assistant Professor
Otolaryngology

Samer Abujaber, MD, BCh, BAO
Clinical Assistant Professor
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Department of Medicine

Ovadia Abulafia, MD
Professor and Chairman Emeritus
Obstetrics & Gynecology

Ishola Adeyemo, MD, FACOG, CPPS
Clinical Assistant Professor
Associate Director, QA, PI and Patient Safety
Assistant Medical Student Clerkship Director

Aimee Afable, PhD, MPH
Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Associate Professor
Department of Community Health Sciences

Maksim Agaronov, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Pathology
Kings County Hospital Center

Sanjeev Agarwal, MD
Interim Division Chief
Director, Interventional Pain Management
Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine

Konstantinos Agoritsas, MD FAAP
Clinical Assistant Professor
Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Kings County Hospital

Saren Ahearn, PT, DPT, Dip ACLM
Assistant Professor
Physical Therapy

Sushil K. Ahlawat, MD, MS, MBBS, FACP, FASGE, AGAF
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Alla Akivis, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine

Usha Alapati, MD, FAAD, FCAP
Dermatology

Juan Marcos Alarcón, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Pathology
Division of Neuroscience

Wondimagegnehu (Wondi) Alemu, MD
Clincal Associate Professor

Edward Allen, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine

Ranjit Alvarez, MHA
Program Administrator
Physical Therapy
School of Health Professions

Amal Amar-Alattaby, DM, CNM, LM, OBGYN NP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Clinical Coordinator
Midwifery Program
School of Health Professions

Christian Johannes Amlang, MD, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
Attending, Movement Disorders
Neurology

Sergio Angulo, MD, PhD
Neurocritical Care Attending
Department of Neurology

Loraine Antoine, PT, DPT, PhD
Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education (DCE)
Physical Therapy
School of Health Professions

Brian Anziska
Professor
General Neurology

Yaacov Anziska, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurology
Director, Muscular Dystrophy Association Clinic

Rosa Arancibia, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

J.V. Aranda
Professor
Pediatrics

Veronica L. P. Arikian, PhD, RN
Clinical Associate Professor
College of Nursing

Heidi J. Aronin, MPA
Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer
Administration
Institutional Official for Research

Bonnie Arquilla, DO FACEP
Professor/ Director
Disaster Management

Ida Askew-Stevens
Office Manager, Executive Assistant To The Dept. Chair Dept. of Family & Community Medicine
Department of Family and Community Medicine

Michael H. Augenbraun, MD
Professor of Medicine; Vice Chair, Department of Medicine
Director, Division of Infectious Diseases:
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Kings County Hospital Center

Adesiji Awoyinka
Videographer
New Media Services
Office of Communications & Marketing

Ayse Aytaman, MD, FACG, AGAF, FAASLD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
VA NY Harbor Health Care System – Brooklyn Campus

Ofer Azoulay, MD
Assistant Professor & Chief of Robotic and Microvascular Head and Neck Reconstruction
Otolaryngology

Nicole Bagnarol, MPH
Director of Curricular Innovation
School of Public Health

Alison Baird, MD, BS, FRACP, PhD, MPH
Vice-Chair for Career Development and Mentoring
Professor of Neurology, Physiology/Pharmacology
Department of Neurology

Randall L. Barbour, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology

Bonny Baron, MD
Associate Professor
Emergency Medicine

Frank C. Barone, PhD
Professor of Neurology, and of Physiology & Pharmacology
Director of Cerebrovascular Basic Research and Medical Student Research
Department of Neurology

Peter B. Barr, PhD
Social Determinants of Health Lead
Institute for Genomics in Health
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

Robert H. Barth, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Chief of Dialysis & Affiliate Program Director, VA Medical Center
Department of Nephrology

Ernest Barthélemy, MD, MPH, MA
Chief of Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Neurology, and Orthopedic Surgery
Global Health

Ernest J. Barthélemy, MD, MPH, MA
Chief, Division of Neurosurgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Neurology, and Orthopedic Surgery

Natasha Becker, MD, MPH, FACS
Chief, Division of General Surgery
General Surgery Residency Program Director

Marisol Benjamin
Receptionist/ Outpatient Biller
Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease
Department of Psychiatry

Boris Bentsianov, MD
Assistant Professor
Otolaryngology
Director of the Division of Laryngology, Voice and Swallowing Disorders

Peter D. Berg, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, SUNY Downstate
Director, Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, Brooklyn Veterans Administration Hospital Center
Director, SUNY Downstate Contact Lens Service

Peter Bergold, PhD
Professor
Physiology and Pharmacology
Department of Neurology

Ellen Berkowitz, MD
Associate Dean for Medical Education, Clinical Advisory Dean
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

Satyakam Bhagavati, MBBS, MD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Neurology

Riccardo Bianchi, PhD
Associate Dean for Foundations of Medicine
Associate Professor Physiology and Pharmacology

Tim B. Bigdeli, PhD
Co-Director
Institute for Genomics in Health

Jeffrey Birnbaum, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

David Biro, MD, PhD, FAAD
Associate Clinical Professor
Dermatology

Tenya Blackwell, DrPH
Clinical Assistant Professor
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Christina Bloem, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine

David Blumenthal, MD
Chief, Medical Service
VA New York Harbor Healthcare System (NYHHS), Brooklyn, NY

Phillip Bones, M.Ed
Assistant Dean
Office of the Dean
School of Health Professions

Jeffrey Borer, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology, Radiology and Surgery;
Director, The Howard Gilman Institute for Heart Valve Disease and the Schiavone Institute for Cardiovascular Translational Research;
Formerly Chairman, Department of Medicine and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Marina Boruk, MD
Assistant Professor
Otolaryngology

Carla Boutin-Foster, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean, Office of Diversity Education and Research
Associate Vice President For Institutional Equity