OGDENSBURG - Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center has announced Parthajeet R. Chowdhuri, MD has joined its medical staff.

Dr. Chowdhuri, an internist, is seeing patients at the Claxton-Hepburn Medical Office Building, 3 Lyon Place, Suite 303, Ogdensburg.

Appointments can be made by calling 713-6680.

Dr. Chowdhuri joins us from Pennsylvania Hospital, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he worked as a full-time teaching hospitalist in a group practice.

In addition, he served as clinical instructor in bed-side teaching and physical diagnosis skills for medical students and house staff.

He also served on committees involving medical informatics, patient safety and transition of care.

Dr. Chowdhuri received a Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned his Doctor of Medicine from St. George's University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies.

He completed his clinical clerkships in the United States at Brooklyn Hospital Center affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College, N.Y.

He then went on to train in internal medicine and also served as Chief Resident of Internal Medicine at Norwalk Hospital, affiliated with Yale University School of Medicine, Norwalk, Conn..

Dr. Chowdhuri is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a member of the American College of Physicians and the Society of General Internal Medicine.

He has also participated in several research and educational activities.

Dr. Chowdhuri resides in Ogdensburg with his wife Himani Singh, MD, a medical oncologist, who most recently joined the staff at the Richard E. Winter Cancer Center.