Horizon Family Medical physician named director at Touro College Of Medicine

MDDLETOWN — Dr. Alex Joanow has been named Director of Clinical Rotations at Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in Middletown.
Joanow will continue to serve as Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Osteopathic and Manipulative Medicine at the school.
"Dr. Joanow has been a strong supporter of TouroCOM from the beginning," Dr. Kenneth J. Steier, executive dean and chief academic officer at Touro, said in a press release announcing the appointment. "An experienced local physician, Dr. Joanow will help ensure an excellent education for our students. We thank Horizon and Dr. Joanow for their strong commitment to medical education"
Joanow is a founding partner of Horizon Family Medical Group and an obstetrician/gynecologist with the group.
“We congratulate Dr. Joanow on his new position,” said Jim Olver, MHA, CEO of Horizon Family Medical Group, “and in deepening his commitment to the community and the medical students who will be the physicians of the future.”
Horizon is a National Committee For Quality Assurance Patient Centered Medical Home Level 3 – the highest designation available – to ensure our patients receive the highest quality of care and coordination of their health care.
In his new administrative role, Joanow will oversee the medical education of the third-year medical students who are in clinical clerkships at the various hospitals and sites in New York and Connecticut.
The current third-year Touro students are the first class at the school to reach this status. A total of 135 students began their clerkships on July 1.
In addition, Joanow will evaluate all the clinical sites where Touro medical students complete their third and fourth year clinical clerkships. These sites include Horizon Family Medical Group, Orange Regional Medical Center, St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital, Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Putnam Hospital Center, and Sharon Community Hospital in Sharon, Conn., Middletown Medical, and Middletown Community Health Care Center.
In the clinical clerkship years, medical students rotate in the departments of family practice medicine, internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry and emergency medicine.