Community Memorial Hospital

Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) has added KAREEM HAMAD, M.D., and MATTHEW MCKAY, M.D., to its hospitalist team. These providers care for patients admitted to the hospital, collaborating amongst other departments during patient admissions, post-surgical care, and swing-bed patients.

Dr. Hamad has been providing care to patients in Central New York since 2010. He brings experience in inpatient management, integrative medicine, wound care, minor surgeries, and rapid response/code management. Hamad studied medicine at the Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine in Alexandria, Egypt, where he received his bachelors of internal medicine and general surgery. After that, he studied general surgery and etymology at Trafford Hospital in Manchester, United Kingdom. He received his boards in family medicine in 2013 and fellowship of anti-aging and regenerative medicine in 2016. McKay comes to Community Memorial Hospital after an extensive career as a local physician.

Graduating from St. George’s University School of Medicine and completing his family medicine residency at Mountainside Hospital, McKay was a private practice primary care provider with a local group and has served as a hospitalist in a neighboring facility since 2018 as well. As an Oneida native, McKay has served as the president and VP of a medical staff group as well the chairperson of the Department of Internal Medicine.