Surgeon Joins St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates

Jessica Folek, M.D., FACS
Jessica Folek, M.D., FACS

Jessica Folek, M.D., FACS, has joined St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates in Albany, New York.

Board-certified in general surgery, Folek will practice both endocrine and bariatric surgery. Her professional interests include minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid surgery, bariatric surgery, adrenal surgery, robotic surgery, and endocrine disease in obesity.

Folek received her medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. She completed a fellowship in minimally invasive/bariatric surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Additionally, she completed fellowship training in endocrine surgery at Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, Texas. She previously served as a general and bariatric surgeon with PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend in Springfield, Oregon.

She also holds a bachelor’s degree in German language and literature from New York University.

St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates is accepting new patients at 319 S. Manning Blvd., Suite 304, in Albany. For more information or to make an appointment with Folek, please call 518-525-5210.

St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates, with more than 350 physicians and advanced practitioners in more than 80 locations, is affiliated with St. Peter’s Health Partners – the region’s largest and most comprehensive not-for-profit network of high-quality, advanced medical care, primary care, rehabilitation and senior services.