Our Faculty

La Bodega, the hepatitis C clinic at Erie County Medical Center founded and run by Anthony Martinez, associate professor of medicine in the Jacobs School, works hard to fight the stigma around the disease often associated with needle-sharing. The clinic has cured 98% of its 7,000 plus patients of hepatitis C.

9/26/25

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Our faculty includes basic sciences researchers and physician-scientists in the clinical departments who pursue translational research in a variety of fields.

“There is no other area in the country quite like Western New York. It is affordable, comfortable, friendly, invigorating and exclusive.”
4/23/21
Amanda B. Hassinger, MD
Clinical associate professor of pediatrics
“How do you make an immune system fight a virus that infects its own cells? It’s a very interesting problem.”
4/23/21
Amy Jacobs, PhD
Associate professor of microbiology and immunology
“Forensic psychiatry is the link between psychiatry and the criminal justice system.”
4/21/23
Daniel Antonius, PhD
Director, Division of Forensic Psychiatry;
Associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry
“I always like challenges.”
4/23/21
Elad Levy, MD
Professor and chair of neurosurgery
"Once I completed my residency, I could not think of leaving the area after meeting so many wonderful physicians and families."
4/23/21
Jessica Donhauser, MD ’13
Pediatrics ’16
Clinical assistant professor of pediatrics
"I could not pass up the value of a UB medical education."
4/23/21
John Ortolani, MD ’11
Assistant professor, colon & rectal surgery
“The faculty contributed to my training as a postdoc at UB and continue to be incredibly supportive in helping me navigate the early stages of setting up my long-term research program.”
3/11/25
Joseph T. Smith Jr., PhD
Assistant professor of microbiology and immunology
“It is amazing to see somebody go from not knowing how to hold a knife in the operating room to where they’re putting implants in — and they’re doing it well. It’s very fulfilling and it gives me purpose.”
4/23/21
K. Keely Boyle, MD
Orthopaedics ’19
Clinical assistant professor of orthopaedics
“I’ve been able to do what I want in every aspect of my career.”
4/23/21
Mark O'Brian, PhD
Professor and chair of biochemistry
“Communicating with patients is one thing that I focus on with medical students and residents.”
4/23/21
Stephen Turkovich, MD ’03
Assistant professor of clinical pediatrics
“I felt this would be a good place for me to continue my career.”
4/23/21
Steven Fliesler, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor of ophthalmology
“It’s very, very easy to collaborate with people here.”
4/23/21
Xiuqian Mu, MD, PhD
Associate professor of ophthalmology

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