Stephen Petrany, M.D., serves as chairman for the Department of Family and Community Health at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. He joined the department in 1989 after six years in practice in Ohio and Connecticut. He served as residency program director for 15 years, later serving as associate chairman for medical education before he was appointed department chairman.
He served as medical director of Ebenezer Medical Outreach, a free clinic providing health care to the uninsured of the region, for 20 years.
He has developed programs in medical education and authored studies on the success of those programs. He also developed educational tracts for family medicine to attract talented young physicians to Huntington, such as the Paul Ambrose Health Policy, International Health, Wilderness Medicine and Rural Health.
He is a charter member of the board of directors of PROACT (Physician Organization for Addiction Care and Treatment) and has guided the development and growth of the Division of Addiction Sciences within the Department of Family and Community Health as a major component of the medical school’s response to the addiction crisis.
Petrany earned a B.S. and M.D. from Georgetown University and completed his residency internship at the Medical College of Virginia, Fairfax Hospital Family Practice Program.
