Paul Lombardo, chair and clinical associate professor of the physician assistant (PA) program at Stony Brook University, is the 2011 recipient of the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) Outstanding Achievement Award. This award honors an individual who has provided sustained, exceptional service or leadership to PAEA or who has contributed to the advancement of the [...]

Julie Cherian has been appointed Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and the medical staff at Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital. Cherian comes to Stony Brook from Weill-Cornell/New York-Presbyterian Medical Center where she was a fellow in pediatric rheumatology. A cum laude graduate [...]

David Fiorella, Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery and Radiology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, has been named a member at large of the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS). This distinction makes Fiorella part of the SNIS’s panel of officers, which includes only three members at large nationwide. SNIS members elected Fiorella because he [...]

Jennifer Osipoff has been appointed Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and will serve on the medical staff of Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital. Osipoff completed all of her medical training at Stony Brook: medical school, her residency in pediatrics—where she was chief [...]

Michelle Weisfelner Bloom has been appointed assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. Her practice will encompass treating patients with a wide range of advanced cardiovascular diseases at Stony Brook’s Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Center. Bloom will practice primarily through the Center, which provides [...]

Fred Friedberg, Research Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, through the State University of New York Research Foundation, received a $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue testing a home-based self management program for people with chronic [...]

Yusuf Hannun was chosen from an incredible field of applicants drawn from around the nation to serve as the new Director of Stony Brook University Cancer Center. He will also be appointed Professor of Medicine, officially joining the faculty on March 1, 2012. Hannun comes to Stony Brook from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), where [...]

On October 8, the entire first-year physician assistant class of 44 students and five members of the PA faculty from Stony Brook University boarded a bus to Rockefeller Center to participate in the Today Show as part of the celebration for National Physician Assistant Week (October 6 to October 12). There they met news anchor [...]

Freedom from obesity is attainable. For those who are substantially overweight or have significant weight-related health issues, the key to success is to find the right tools. Stony Brook’s interdisciplinary Bariatric and Metabolic Weight Loss Center offers comprehensive treatment: medical management, exercise, behavior modification, counseling, nutrition, and a complete range of advanced bariatric surgeries. Attend [...]

Come to the second annual Harvest Sunset Dinner, a fundraising event presented by the National Pediatric MS (multiple sclerosis) Center at Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital. Proceeds from the event, which kicks off the Center’s “Season of Giving,” will support pediatric MS research at the Center. The dinner will be held on Thursday, November [...]