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Three new faculty members join SUNY Upstate Medical University

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — SUNY Upstate Medical University announces the appointment of three new faculty members:

James Dwyer, Ph.D., has been appointed assistant professor for the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. Dwyer will also serve as the center’s associate director of education. Dwyer previously served as the associate director of the Consortium Ethics Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Dwyer earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine, in 1986. He resides in Syracuse.

Sastry V. S. Prayaga, M.D., and Anthony B. Karabanow, M.D., have both joined the Department of Medicine as assistant professors in the division of general internal medicine.

Prayaga previously served as a staff physician at Reading Convenient Care in Reading, Pa. Prayaga earned his medical degree at Guntur Medical College in India in 1992. He resides in Liverpool.

Karabanow previously served as a staff physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic in Concord, N.H. Karabanow earned his medical degree at the University of Connecticut Health Science Center in 1999. He resides in Syracuse.