Dr. Ferdinand J. Venditti, Jr., Named Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs
ALBANY, N.Y., May 7, 2008—Ferdinand J. Venditti, Jr., M.D., has been promoted to vice dean for clinical affairs at Albany Medical College. Dr. Venditti, a cardiologist and practicing cardiac electrophysiologist, has been serving as president of Albany Med’s Faculty Practice Plan for the past five years and chair of the department of medicine for the past nine years.
“Dr. Venditti has been a successful and well-regarded leader at Albany Med who has taken on increasing responsibility throughout his years of service. This new position will give him the resources he needs to further that level of commitment to our faculty, staff and patients,” said Vincent Verdile, M.D., dean of Albany Medical College and executive vice president for health affairs.
In his new position, Dr. Venditti will maintain and expand his responsibilities for the operations of the Faculty Practice, a 250-member group of physicians; the largest group practice in northeastern New York. As vice dean, Dr. Venditti will be heavily involved in the retention and recruitment of faculty physicians and he will oversee budgeting, strategic planning, clinical practice operations, regulatory accreditation processes, clinical medical education, and other day-to-day functions of the Faculty Practice. He will also act as chair of the Operating Committee of the Faculty Practice, and will continue to serve on the President’s Council.
“The Faculty Practice, with its wealth of sub-specialists, is a vital resource for our community in that we provide a level of specialty care no one else in our area can provide. It is critically important that we focus on nurturing and growing this group, and I’m honored to be in a position where I can support the Dean and the institution in this regard,” said Dr. Venditti.
Dr. Venditti, a native of Schenectady and a graduate of St. Lawrence University, received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn, and completed his residency and internship at New Jersey Medical School in Newark. He performed a fellowship in cardiology at Boston University School of Medicine and a fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Before returning to the area to join Albany Med as physician-in-chief and chair of medicine in 1999, he practiced in Boston as chief of the division of cardiology at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center and was a professor at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Venditti resides in Loudonville with his wife, Mary Ellen Ehlers, M.D., an endocrinologist, and their four children.
Albany Medical Center, a not-for-profit institution, is northeastern New York’s only academic health sciences center. The institution consists of Albany Medical Center Hospital, one of New York’s largest teaching hospitals; Albany Medical College, one of the nation’s oldest medical schools; and the Albany Medical Center Foundation, Inc., one of the region’s most active fundraising organizations.
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