GFH honors Robert G. Hogan, MD, with Physician Award of Excellence

GLENS FALLS - Robert G. Hogan, MD, cardiology, was recently recognized by the Glens Falls Hospital Board of Governors with the Harry M. "Mac" DePan Physician Award of Excellence during the Board's Annual Meeting and Holiday Dinner.

Dr. Hogan has been an active member of the Glens Falls Hospital Medical/Dental Staff since 2001 and is medical director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab. He is affiliated with Adirondack Cardiology Associates.

Under Dr. Hogan's clinical leadership, Glens Falls Hospital began performing emergency Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), or emergency angioplasty, in 2003. Only a small number of non-cardiac surgery hospitals in the state are permitted to perform this clinical procedure under a special demonstration project overseen by the state Department of Health and Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. To date, Dr. Hogan has performed more than 70 emergency PCIs at Glens Falls Hospital. In the absence of this program and Dr. Hogan's expertise, these patients would have been forced to travel upwards of one hour to access this critical, life-saving procedure. Dr. Hogan also performs elective procedures at Albany Medical Center and Ellis Hospital weekly, in order to continuously maintain his skills. During his clinical leadership of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, he has provided 475 days of call coverage . . . nearly two-thirds of the total required physician PCI call responsibility.

He received his medical degree from SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse, NY, followed by an internal medicine residency at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, NY. Dr. Hogan also completed fellowships in cardiology and interventional cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Mass. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Hogan is married and resides with his wife, Elizabeth Little Hogan, and their three children in Glens Falls.