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ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER

Panayiotis Varelas has been appointed chair of the Department of Neurology at Albany Med.

Varelas, a neurointensivist, previously served as director of the neuro intensive care unit, which he is credited with establishing, at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. His expertise is in treating critically ill patients with strokes, brain bleeds, severe head or spine trauma, brain tumors, seizures and brain swelling, amongst others.

Dr. Varelas received his medical degree from the University of Athens Medical School in Athens, Greece, and went on to serve as Second Lieutenant Medical Officer in the Greek Air Forces. He was trained in internal medicine and anesthesiology at Vostanio Hospital and the 251 Air Forces Hospital, respectively; in psychiatry at Geniko Kratiko Hospital; and then completed neurology residency at Aeginition University Hospital, all in Greece. He was a research fellow in the Department of Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and then repeated a complete residency in neurology at Yale University School of Medicine before sub-specializing in neurological intensive care at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

He and his wife, Mariana Spanaki-Varelas, M.D., Ph.D, MBA, an epileptologist who has also joined Albany Med's Department of Neurology, live in Schenectady.

SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER

Southwestern Vermont Medical Center announced Ebrahim Ghazali joined SVMC Pediatrics and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians.

Ghazali received his medical degree at the Texas Tech University Health and Science Center and his bachelor's degree from the University of Houston in Texas. He completed his residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. Since January, he has worked as a contract physician for...