North Adams Family Medical & Dental
Ankineedu Babu Dasari, MBA, BDS
Dr. Ankineedu Babu Dasari is a dentist at North Adams Family Dental Center, where he sees patients of all ages. A graduate of Sibar Institute of Dental Sciences in Takkellapadu, India, he earned an MBA in health care administration from University of Findlay, in Findlay, OH. He completed his Advanced Education in General Dentistry Fellowship at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine.
Location: North Adams Medical & Dental
Dawn Kohanski, FNP
Dawn Kohanski is a family nurse practitioner at CHP North Adams Family Medicine. She completed her family nurse practitioner education at the State University of New York (SUNY) Institute of Technology and earned her master of science in nursing and health care administration from the University of Phoenix. She earned her bachelor of science in nursing also at SUNY Institute of Technology. Most recently, she was a hospitalist practitioner at Berkshire Medical Center, where she coordinated adult acute care in the hospital setting. She also worked as a family nurse practitioner with Columbia Memorial Health in Cairo, N.Y., caring for patients of all ages. During the early months of Covid-19 in 2020, Kohanski also worked as a temporary ICU nurse practitioner at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She is certified in basic life support, advanced cardiac life support, pediatric advanced life support, trauma nursing, pediatric emergency nursing, stroke care, infection control, and other areas of care. Kohanski is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. She resides in Williamstown.
Location: North Adams Medical & Dental
John Brazill, D.M.D.
Dr. John W. Brazill is CHP's dental director and he also practices general dentistry at CHP North Adams Dental. He is a graduate of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and he earned his bachelor’s degree in biology at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. He completed his general practice dental residency at Berkshire Medical Center. In addition to general dentistry, Brazill has expertise in restorative dentistry, fixed and removable prosthetics and implant prosthetics. As a volunteer, he has worked with the Flying Samaritans, providing dentistry care in Mexico. A dentist for more than 30 years, mostly in the Berkshire area he owned and managed his own practice in Pittsfield for 18 years. More recently he has worked at practices in Pittsfield, Vermont and Williamstown.
Location: North Adams Medical & Dental
Yaman Kana, DDS
Dr. Kana, is a practicing dentist and associate dental director of CHP, overseeing dental practices in North Adams, Pittsfield and Great Barrington. He received his doctorate of dental surgery at Ovidius University of Constanta in Romania. He first practiced general dentistry in a private practice in Damascus, Syria and also in the Syrian military. On settling in Boston, he worked in both a private practice and at Boston University’s Dental Health Center. He later worked at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, DotHouse Health Center in Dorchester, HealthFirst Family Care Center in Fall River and, most recently, Community Health Center of Franklin County. He is fluent in Arabic, Romanian and French.
Locations: North Adams Medical & Dental, Pittsfield Neighborhood Dental