The Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University deployed a new in-house COVID Surveillance Screening platform developed by Computer Science faculty and students. The platform was developed by Computer...
Kisa King, a resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine, received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, administered by Ian Pak, a pharmacist at the Hospital.
In a virtual Grand Rounds lecture titled “Picturing Pandemic Disease,” presented by the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, Barry Coller, MD, Hon. ’03 and former Stony Brook faculty member...
By pushing boundaries, SBU is reshaping the future As years go, 2020 has tested us all. We have been confronting a global pandemic, a contentious national election, a movement for racial and social equality, an...
The challenges of diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s patients, many of whom are older than 60 — a demographic particularly vulnerable to the dangers of COVID-19 — increase exponentially during a pandemic. Like the rest...
Recent scientific evidence has shown that the coronavirus may remain infectious as an aerosol for three hours or longer. Although the exact means of transmission remains a mystery that’s still being investigated...
Chosen for their involvement in the organization DonatePPE.org, siblings Karen Tsai and Kevin Tsai presented the Best Supporting Actor award at the 72nd annual Emmys on September 20.
Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital have been named leaders by the National LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Index of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
For the second consecutive year, SBU Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award.
A study led by SBU's Anat Biegon is the first to show a direct correlation between aromatase (an enzyme) availability in the amygdala and body mass index.
With a nearly $3 million grant from the NIDA, Assistant Professor Scott J. Moeller, PhD, of the Renaissance School of Medicine is studying the brains of those with opioid use disorder.
Rechargeable battery packs for Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR) were created by teams from the College of Engineering & Applied Sciences and Stony Brook Medicine.
When the coronavirus pandemic began, one Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) nurse came out of retirement to join her daughter on the frontlines. Mary Beth Patterson retired from SBUH in December 2018 after being...
Stony Brook Children’s Hospital now offers web-based resources and activities for parents and children seeking to understand and weather the coronavirus pandemic. The website includes an activity booklet aimed at...
EyeCanDo enables patients to use their eye movements and visual attention to control smart home devices, listen to music, type, send messages and more.