FACULTY
Afsar Khan, MD
Program Director
Dr. Khan received his Doctor of Medicine from Allama Iqbal Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan and completed his residency with St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency Program in Utica, NY. He has been awarded the 2020 Northeast Group Medical Director of the Year for his role in leading the MVHS Emergency Department as Medical Director. Dr. Khan leads our Faxton-St. Luke’s Transitional Year Residency Program, as the Program Director.
Core Faculty
Dr. Timothy Backus, DO is an emergency medicine specialist in Utica, NY and has over 10 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from New York Institute of Technology / Old Westbury in 2014.
Goutham Malempati, MD, MHA, FAAFP, SFHM
Core Faculty
Dr. Malempati joined the Hospitalist program at the St. Luke’s Campus in 2007. He most recently served as the assistant program director of Resident and Medical Student Education at the Sister Rose Vincent Family Medicine Center in Utica, New York, supporting the St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency program.
Dr. Malempati received his bachelor’s degree and medical degree from Mahadevappa Rampure Medical College in India. Dr. Malempati is a graduate of the St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency and earned the degree of Fellow in Hospital Medicine in 2014.
Ahmed Mahmoud, MD
Core Faculty
Ahmed Mahmoud, MD, FRCS, FACS, is the program director for the General Surgery Residency Program. Dr. Mahmoud also performs general, trauma and thoracic surgery using laparoscopic and robotic techniques.
Prior to joining MVHS, he founded the General Surgery Residency Program at University of California/Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside, California. He received the “Best Surgical Instructor” award in 2022 from the University of California in Riverside, California, where he served as an associate professor, Residency Program director and surgery clerkship director.
Dr. Mahmoud received his Doctor of Medicine from Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. He completed his internship in Surgery at Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow, New York, and his surgical residency at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan. He was a fellow in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and a fellow in Thoracic Vascular Surgery at Rush University in Chicago, Illinois.
Administrative Faculty
Barbara Dyer, MSHA
Program Coordinator
