GHASSAN KOUSSA

GHASSAN KOUSSA, M.D., has been named medical director for the intensive care unit at the St. Luke’s campus of MVHS. Koussa works with the MVHS Pulmonary and Critical Care Group and has privileges at Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare and St. Elizabeth Medical Center. He also serves as medical director of pulmonary rehabilitation at the Faxton campus and medical director of the respiratory care program through Mohawk Valley Community College. Koussa was previously affiliated with Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New Hampshire, as a staff physician in pulmonary and critical care medicine and medical director of the lung cancer screening program. He earned his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. Koussa completed an internal medicine residency, internal medicine chief residency, and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Albany Medical College in Albany. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon and is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine.