Faculty/Staff

	Anthony Karabanow, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine who established the Upstate hospitalist program in July, 2004. He attended medical school at the University of Connecticut Health Science Center. He then completed a residency program in Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Prior to joining Upstate, he was a physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic in Concord, NH. He is actively involved in the administration of the Upstate hospitalist program. He has been responsible for the development of computer physician order entry sets and an alcohol withdrawal protocol. He participates in committees addressing medicine reconciliation and observation status at University Hospital.
	Sekou R Rawlins, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine who joined the Upstate hospitalist group in July, 2005 after serving as a Chief Medical Resident at Jersey City Medical Center in Jersey City, NJ. He attended medical school at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington D.C. then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, NY. He teaches a section of courses in physical diagnosis skills and evidence based medicine to medical students. He is actively involved in research concerning cirrhosis and the care of the patient with decompensated liver disease.

	Matthew Gordon Glidden, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine who joined the Upstate hospitalist program in January, 2007. He attended medical school at Upstate Medical University. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at the same institution. A recipient of many resident teaching awards, he was ultimately selected as chief resident at Upstate Medical University. He is actively involved in the Medicine Clerkship Grades Committee and the Resident Selection Committee.
	Jeffrey Rew, RPA has been working as a PA since 1980. He was trained as a certified Nurse Practitioner and became a PA by examination. He worked for several years as a house officer for a 172 bed hospital in Cortland, N.Y. Having the foresight that PAs would soon be all bachelors prepared, he achieved a bachelor of science degree from SUNY Cortland in 1986. He has worked for the state of New York since then. He has 5 years experience working with the mentally ill as a PA at Hutchings Psychiatric Center. For the past 15 years, he has worked at SUNY Upstate as a primary provider working directly with various attending physicians. He has served on the hospitalist teams since their beginning.