Stony Brook University School of Medicine, through the SUNY Research Foundation, has received a three-year $800,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help advance and expand comprehensive medical care for HIV-infected women, children, youth and HIV-exposed infants living in Suffolk County. The grant is funded by the Health Resources [...]

James R. Taylor Jr., MD, FACS, and Harold A. Fernandez, MD, have joined Stony Brook Medicine as professors of surgery at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and co-directors of Stony Brook University Heart Institute. Dr. Taylor will also serve as chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Dr. Fernandez will serve as deputy [...]

Reuven Pasternak, MD, has assumed his official role at Stony Brook Medicine as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Vice President for Health Systems of Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH). “Reuven Pasternak is a terrific addition to Stony Brook,” said Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD. “He will bring greater unity and focus [...]

James R. Taylor Jr., MD, FACS, Vice Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at St. Francis Hospital and Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital, and Harold A. Fernandez, MD, Director of the Division of Heart Failure Surgery at St. Francis Hospital, have been appointed Professors of Surgery in the Stony Brook University School of Medicine [...]

L. Reuven Pasternak, MD, has been named Vice President for Health Systems and Chief Executive Officer of Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH), effective September 1, announced Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, and Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean, School of Medicine, Kenneth Kaushansky, MD. A native of Hempstead, New [...]

The Stony Brook University Hospital Art Collection is growing, thanks to an active and enthusiastic volunteer University Hospital Art Committee, and the generosity of numerous Long Island artists and their families – creating a more aesthetically pleasant, healing environment for hospital patients. In an ongoing effort that began just last September, the Hospital Art Committee [...]

Cancer survivors and their families and friends are invited to the eighth annual National Cancer Survivors Day on Sunday, June 10. The event, sponsored by Gloria and Mark Snyder, features Ted Kennedy Jr., who will discuss “Facing the Challenge: Surviving Cancer.” Since losing one of his legs to bone cancer in 1973 at the age [...]

Lina Obeid, a physician-scientist and biomedical researcher, has been appointed dean for research and professor of medicine at Stony Brook School of Medicine. She comes to Stony Brook from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). At Stony Brook she will oversee the Office of Scientific Affairs (OSA), which facilitates the biomedical research enterprise of [...]

In a return engagement, Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital will partner with the March of Dimes as the Suffolk County venue for its annual fundraising event, March for Babies, on Sunday, May 6. The route spans the circumference of the Stony Brook University main campus, beginning at the athletic fields adjacent to the new [...]

When Mark and Gloria Snyder put their support behind an organization, they put their money into the cause, not just their hearts. Mark is president of Mark J. Snyder Financial Services Inc., and his wife Gloria is vice president of the firm. In a show of support for Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital, the [...]