Steven L. Strongwater, Chief Executive Officer of Stony Brook University Medical Center, was among eight Long Island men honored by Networking® magazine at the 2010 David Awards breakfast. The award is named after Michelangelo’s statue of David, representing the ideal Renaissance man. The ninth annual event took place at the Crest Hollow Country Club in [...]

Sandeep Gupta is now Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stony Brook University Medical Center. He comes to SBUMC from the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, where he completed his General Surgery Residency, Transplant Immunology Fellowship, and Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship. Gupta will focus his practice at Stony Brook on surgery [...]

Eight-year-old Zach Sheikh was overjoyed when the doctors, nurses, and staff of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stony Brook University Medical Center surprised him on December 22 with a special party and gift, his Christmas list fulfilled. Zach has Rhabdomyosarcoma, a form of childhood cancer, and is undergoing therapy at SBUMC. He took a [...]

Isaiah Gilliam had a special visit from four New York Islanders who delivered some holiday cheer to him and many other children at Stony Brook University Medical Center on December 9. The Islanders spent two hours going room to room dropping off gifts and visiting with more than 30 patients in the Pediatric Oncology, Pediatric [...]

Stony Brook University Medical Center has opened a new and expanded World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program (WTCMMTP) facility to care for thousands of 9/11 first responders who continue to suffer from asthma, pulmonary conditions, post-traumatic stress disorders, and other conditions related to their work at ground zero. The WTCMMTP medical staff, patients, [...]

Amid the late semester pressures of classes and clinical work, students from the School of Medicine gathered their resources to run a food and clothing drive for PRONTO, a Long Island-based non-profit human service agency that provides services to the homeless, unemployed, immigrants, uninsured, and others in need. The drive ran November 11 through 20. [...]

Philip Bao has been named Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, at Stony Brook University Medical Center. Appointed by Todd K. Rosengart, Chair of Surgery, Bao specializes in the treatment of malignant and benign tumors of the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract including liver, pancreas, esophagus, and stomach. Bao comes to SBUMC from the [...]

Members of Stony Brook’s baseball team helped register other students for the Stony Brook University Medical Center (SBUMC) bone marrow registry drive held in three campus locations on November 5, 7, and 10, with the hope that patients with leukemia or lymphoma in need of a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant will receive [...]

 Instrumentalists, vocalists, and dancers will take center stage at the fifth Rising Stars Talent Show and Art Exhibit, which features pediatric cancer patients, their family members, and Stony Brook University Medical Center staff as the performers. The event takes place in the Student Activities Center on Sunday, December 6, at 2:00 pm. Patients, families, and [...]

David Fiorella has been named Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery and Radiology at Stony Brook University Medical Center. Appointed by Raphael Davis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery, Fiorella specializes in Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology and joins the Cerebrovascular Center at SBUMC. Fiorella comes to Stony Brook from the Barrow Neurological Institute [...]