Alumni in the media

Dr. Jason Mouzakes '92 has been appointed president and CEO of Albany Medical Center Hospital. He has served as executive vice president since 2024 and was previously chief of the Division of Otolaryngology.

Aja Belle Schiller '25 recently released her debut short story. “Pigs” revolves around a young girl who finds herself and her identity through friendship and shared culture, based on her Chinese-American transracial adoptee experience in the small town of Snowmass.

Dr. Aaron Feingold '72 was featured in USA Today in the article, "Tales of a Cardiologist: When Medicine Meets the Human Heart."

Retiring Schenectady Police Chief Eric Clifford '94 was recently featured in a Daily Gazette story about a formal walkout ceremony in his honor.

Albany Med Health System recently announced that Dr. Gregg Meyer '84 has been named senior clinical and strategic advisor. Meyer is a practicing primary care physician and experienced health care executive with expertise in delivery system and payer strategy, clinical medicine, operations, quality improvement, health care information technology, health policy, medical education, and population health.

Rebecca Parlakian '94 was recently featured in The Washington Post's article, "Babies are watching a lot of YouTube, and this expert is concerned." Parlakian is senior director of programs with the organization Zero to Three, a nonpartisan, research-based nonprofit focused on the healthy development of infants, toddlers and families.

Paleontologist Tess Gallagher '22 was recently featured in an IFL Science article, "What color was diplodocus?" She is the author of a new study about this topic in Royal Society Open Science.

Octavious Cook ’19 recently became assistant principal of Mont Pleasant Middle School. He brings significant expertise in community and student development, most recently spending three years as the Community School Coordinator at Keane Elementary School.

Kentaro Barhydt '18, who is working on a Ph.D. at MIT, recently had a paper published in the journal Science -- “Loop closure grasping: Topological transformations enable strong, gentle, and versatile grasps.” MIT News also featured his work in the article, “Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects.”