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Undergraduate Medical Education Newsletter

As we enter our third year of our fully revamped LEARN cur-riculum, we have some great news to share. The results of the national standardized exams (USMLE Step I) indicate that with our new curriculum, our students continue to score significantly higher than the national average in their scores as well as in the percent passing the exam. This is an attestation to the quality of our students, our faculty, and our integrated curriculum. We are in the process of building the final phase of the LEARN curriculum now developing selectives and trans-lational pillars on cutting edge and interesting medical topics.

Our Mobile Medical Education initiative (mMEdEd) that started two years ago is going well. The Entering Class of 2016 was given iPads with curricular materials accessible at their fingertips for Just-in-Time and asynchronous learning that adapts to personal learning styles. The transition has been seamless. We are currently in our second phase of this project and have just funded five faculty student proj-ects to enhance learning using iPADs.

Update from the Office of Academic and

Faculty AffairsLatha Chandran MD, MPH

Vice Dean, Academic and Faculty AffairsMiriam and David Donoho Distinguished

Teaching ProfessorSUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor

Founding Director, Donoho Academy of Clinical and Educational Scholars

Dean’s MessageBy Kenneth Kaushansky, M.D., M.A.C.P

Senior Vice President, Health Sciences; Dean, School of Medicine

Dear Friends,

It is my favorite time of year again, graduation season. It’s been a very busy year at Stony Brook Medicine and I am

happy to provide an update on all we have been doing to continue to achieve excellence in all we do.

In 2017 we will welcome 126 new physicians into the commu-nity of medicine, having successfully completed the rigorous Stony Brook School of Medicine curriculum. Their intellect, drive, mastery of the complex interaction between the art and the science of medicine, their humanity and their devotion to the principles of medicine have been truly inspiring. The Class of 2017, our 43rd graduating class, is an outstanding and diverse group of nascent internists, surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, anesthesiologists, pediatricians, psychia-trists and other generalists and specialists.

About 40% of our graduates are headed towards careers in primary care, general internal medicine, pediatrics and family medicine, with the remainder specializing. Nearly half of our

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Dean’s Message

Update from the Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs

News from the Office of Alumni Relations

Asian Extravaganza 2016

The David E. Rogers Student Fellowship Award

2017 Match Specialtites

Scholarly Concentrations Program Experience

The Physician and the Scientist Become One

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Gold Foundation Humanism Honor Society

Diaspora of Color

Match Day Celebration

Scholarly Concentrations Program / Research Day

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graduates will stay in New York for their residency train-ing, matching at Cornell, Columbia, NYU, Mt. Sinai, Sloan Kettering, the University of Rochester, and because of our retention efforts, 15 will remain at Stony Brook Medicine, which is great for the home team! Those graduates who sought out training in 21 other states also did quite well, with addresses next year that include Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, UC San Francisco, UCLA, Duke, Pittsburgh, and Stanford, amongst others. Nearly 25% of our graduates are heading to the most prestigious residencies in the country, which I define as the top 20 residencies in each field. And if history is any indication, many will remain in academic medicine, as Stony Brook consistently ranks in the top 10 percentile of all medical schools with graduates who pursue careers in ours and other medical schools.

Research funding at the School of Medicine has risen ~25% since 2010, mostly in our focus areas of Cancer, Immunology and Neurosciences. For example, we have recruited twelve cancer research-oriented faculty members, bringing NCI research funding to approximately $14M per year, plus $10M per year in non-NCI cancer research, putting us well above the threshold for NCI designated Cancer Centers.

We have remodeled about 63,000 square feet of research space and 46,000 square feet of educational and adminis-trative space, with (hopefully) an additional 27,000 square feet of research space to go.

We have created a Stony Brook Institute for Engineering Driven Medicine, which held its first brainstorming session in December 2016 and second in early May 2017. It will build on current strengths and focus on cardiology and cardiovas-cular disorders, cancer medicine, neurosciences, and digital and wireless medical device development.

We have also signed a historic affiliation agreement with Mt. Sinai to partner in research, academic, and clinical endeav-ors. On the research side, we created a small pool of pilot funding aimed at providing funding for six new Program Project Grants. The only requisite was that there be an

equal partnership of faculty members from Stony Brook and Mt Sinai. We received 81 applications, funded 6, making our funding rate less than the NIH (ouch!), but many of the non-funded projects are also being worked on productively. The educational affiliation with Mt. Sinai will include Medical, Nursing, Health Technology, and Social Welfare student rotations, interinstitutional graduate student thesis com-mittees, and experiential learning sites. The clinical relation-ship will allow our two institutions to share best practices and clinical protocols to improve the quality of care for our patients. We will be partnering with Mt. Sinai on cardiac ser-vices, liver transplantation, and ambulatory surgery, among other areas.

On the educational front, we are now nearly 3 years into our LEARN curriculum, and by all accounts our audacious goals are being accomplished. In fact, out of the success of LEARN, we are about to launch a 3 year medical curriculum for a very select number of students in the matriculating class of 2018. Our students are smarter, more experi-enced, and more accomplished at matriculation than ever before, and the number of applicants who want to come to the Stony Brook School of Medicine continues to grow, approaching 5600 applicants this year!

And our clinical impact is growing tremendously. Based on the growth of our faculty, surpassing 900 this year, we opened a 120,000 sq ft multidisciplinary clinic in Commack, that includes extended-hour primary care and over 30 spe-cialists and subspecialists, in addition to beginning to oper-ate the Southampton Hospital in July and opening nearly 500,000 sq ft of research, educational and clinical space on campus within a year or year and a half.

In sum, there is much to celebrate here at Stony Brook Medicine. We continue to make progress on all our mis-sions, research, education, clinical and community out-reach, and the impact of all the members of Stony Brook Medicine continues to grow. I hope you all take great pride in our accomplishments; I certainly do!

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Update for the Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs (continued from page 1)

A large segment of our student population participates in scholarly concentrations programs spending at least six months of their four years dedicated to scholarly activities. They win national prizes for their extracurricular activities.

In March, we had yet another outstanding Match Day event. Our students match into the most prestigious programs in the country for their residency training and many of them end up as chief residents and future program leaders!

Exciting new initiatives have also happened through the Donoho Academy of Clinical and Educational Scholars. We have selected five junior faculty members to be junior mem-

bers of the Academy. These members will receive project mentoring and career counseling through the senior mem-bers of the Academy. Additionally, we will be launching our Master Educator Fellowship Program this July to enhance the teaching skills of our medical school faculty.

So a lot to be proud of for SB SOM. We could not have done it without the energy and the commitment of our wonderful students and our teaching faculty who are generous with their time and effort in all we try to do. Thank you all.

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Another year has flown by and the School of Medicine Alumni Board has had another exciting year of engag-ing alumni and supporting our outstanding medical students. Our new initiative that started in 2015 of asking our alumni to support the incoming class with a stethoscope was even more successful this year. Each new student received an engraved Littman Cardiology III stethoscope as a welcoming gift from our generous alums. As each student thanked their individual donors, it was evident the students were grateful as expressed by one student who said, “ Thank you so much for the stethoscope and for help-ing me start off my first year of medical school on the right foot (or beat!). The Stony Brook Class of 2020 is very excited and anxious to get started, and it’s a source of comfort to know that we have a support network of such wonderful and involved alumni!”

Interested in getting involved, please contact

Mary Hoffmann @ mary.hoffmann@stonybrook.edu

or to make a donation, please contact

Duante Stanton @ duante.stanton@stonybrook.edu.

The Alumni and the Alumni board continue to provide finan-cial awards to the students who wish to participate in an international medical mission. These missions are invaluable to the training for the students. Some of the students have traveled to Peru, Ecuador, Malta, and other medically chal-lenged areas.

White Coat Ceremony 2016

Fourth year students can now take advantage of the new mapping program of alumni HOSTs around the country when they go on their residency interviews and/or connect with the Stony Brook alumni who are physicians in the hospital where they “Matched”.

Class reunions are popular, too. This year the alumni board hosted two separate class year reunions – Class of ’86 and ’96, with four more coming up this summer and fall. Each of these reunions engages alumni who haven’t been back to Stony Brook in years and come to reconnect with their former classmates, reminisce the lectures in the carpeted walls of Lecture Hall 1 and hear from the students of today.

News from the Office of Alumni Relations

By Mary Hoffmann

On Friday, December 9th, Asian Extravaganza – Light the Night, one of the biggest schoolwide events of the year, was held which was hosted by Stony Brook SOM’s very own APAMSA!

Performances were of a riveting variety, including a snazzy fashion show, witty comedy act, tradi-tional violin, modern piano, and two spirited danc-es by many lovable MS1s and MS2s.

During this event, there was a Baking Competition which faculty members judged in real time. There was a raffle, which included prizes from Panera, Salsa Salsa, Picmonic, and more. All proceeds were donated to the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum.

Asian Extravaganza 2016

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The David E. Rogers Student Fellowship Award is a national fellowship for medical and dental students in support of a 10-12 week mentored project initiated during the summer between the first and second years of medical or dental school. Up to five grants worth $4,000 each will be awarded annually. The Fellowship is meant to enrich the educational experiences of students through projects that couple medicine and den-tistry with the needs of underserved or disad-vantaged patients or populations.

In the summer of 2016, two Stony Brook 1st year students, Jaydon Kiernan and Koeun Choi, were awarded fellowships to participate in a research project in Madagascar: “Identifying the Cultural Practices that Perpetuate Cysticercosis in Infandiana, Madagascar.” Their project was supervised by Dr. Peter Small, Founding Director, Global Health Institute, School of Medicine.

In August 18th 2016, the students presented their research along with other fellowship recip-ients, at the New York Academy of Medicine, an event hosted by the President of the Academy, Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford.

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The David E. Rogers Student Fellowship Award

By Cordia Beverley, MD

Assistant Dean for Community Health Policy

Clinical Associate Professor

Family, Population and Preventive Medicine

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MATCH DAY 2017

This year’s Match Day Celebration was held on Friday, March 17, 2017 in the HSC Galleria. We had another successful Match this year with 98% of the class matching to a residency program. 40% of students matched to Primary Care residencies (medicine, pediatrics, family medicine), while others matched in spe-cialties such as: anesthesiology, dermatology, emergency medicine, neurology, Ob/Gyn, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, physical medi-cine and rehabilitation, plastic surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology, radiology (diagnostic, interventional, and nuclear), surgery, urology, and vascular surgery. Students matched to residency programs such as Stony Brook, Brown, Brigham, Duke, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Emory, Dartmouth, NYU, UCLA, Yale, and many others. Congratulations to the Class of 2017!

Match Day Celebration 2017

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Student ProjectAlexander Abadir Global Health

“Comparison of Hemophilia A and Hemophilia B Patients in Respect of Clinical, Laboratory, Radiological, and Genetic Findings.” Mentor: Dr. Wadie Bahou

Nikita Agrawal Medical Humanities

“An Exploration of Narrative Medicine Through Veterans Experience in Combat and with PTSD.”

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Post

Paula AskalskyResearch

“Exploring the Neural Circuit Basis for Sex Differences in Non-Motor Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.”

Mentor: Dr. Mary Kritzer

Sonia BharelGlobal Health

The Utility of the AD8 Brief Dementia Screening Tool in Countries Outside of the United States: A Review of the Literature.”

Mentor: Dr. Mark Sedler

Eric Boccio Research

““Physiologic Markers of Resuscitation for the Septic Patient: The Association Between Cerebral Oximetry and Lactic Acid.”

Mentor: Dr. Adam Singer

Michael Borrero Research

“Prospective Trial of Indocyanine Green Dye Angiography in the Surgical Evaluation of Partial Thickness Burn Wounds.”

Mentor: Dr. Richard Clark

Sean Clark-Garvey Research

“Purification of Recombinant Human Sphingomyelin Synthase 1 and 2.”

Mentor: Dr. Chiara Luberto

Kay Chen Research

“Cardiac Optogenetics: Enhancement by All-Trans-Retinal.” Mentor: Dr. Emilia Entcheva

Alexander DaoResearch

“Treatments of Prostate Cancer and their Imaging Appearance on 3T Multiparametric Prostate MRI.”

Mentor: Dr. Corinne Liu

Marc Delaney Medical Humanities

“Beyond the Diagnosis: An App-Based Approach to Bridging the Gap Between Talking About and Practicing Holistic Health Care.” Mentor: Dr. Stephen Post

Regina DePietroSocial Sciences

“Association Between Inpatient Sleep Loss and Hyperglycemia of Hospitalization”

Mentor: Dr. Dylan Smith

Laviel FernandezResearch

“Novel Spiked-Washer Repair is Biomechanically Superior to Suture and Bone Tunnels for Arcuate Fracture Repair.”

Mentor: Dr. David Komatsu

Jadry GruenMedical Humanities

“Dancing Toward Meaning: How Dance Therapy Creates Community Among Medical Students & Young Adults with Devel-opmental Disability.”

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Post

Sloane HellerResearch

”Validation of English-Language Version of the Multimodal Assessment of Capacities in Severe Dementia (MAC-SD).”Mentor: Dr. Mark Sedler

Kirolos IbrahimGlobal Health

”Health Education as a Primary Prevention in Rural Egypt.”

Mentor: Dr. Mark Sedler

Jeremiah JoyceMedical Humanities

”Beyond the Diagnosis: An App-Based Approach to Bridging the Gap Between Talking About and Practicing Holistic Health Care.”

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Post

Sarah JustvigResearch

“Improving Adherence to Care Recommendations Using a Community Health Worker (CHW) Intervention with the Pediat-ric Medical Home.”

Mentor: Dr. Susmita Pati

This year’s SCP Annual Research Day was held on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 in the Health Sciences Center. This annual event kicked off with oral presentations followed by a poster session. Congratulations to the following students on their Scholarly Concentrations research projects — This is quite an accomplishment!

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Student Project

Alice KaiResearch

“The Efficacy and Complications of Local Anesthesia in Patients with a High International Normalized Ratio (INR) Undergo-ing Limb Salvage Procedures.”

Mentor: Dr. Laurie Shroyer & Nalini Vadivelu (Yale)

Young Il KimResearch

“Contributions of Hypothalamic A11 Dopaminergic Neurons to Descending Modulation of Pain.”

Mentors: Drs. Rebecchi Mario & Puopolo Michelino

Danielle KostrubiakResearch

”Blood Cadmium and Depressive Symptoms: Confounded by Cigarette Smoking.”

Mentor: Dr. Jaymie Meliker

Sara KryeziuResearch

“Comparing the Psychological and Cosmetic Outcomes of Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy with Simple Mastectomy.”

Mentor: Dr. Tara Huston

Ryan LammGlobal Health

“Prevalence of & Factors Associated with Leishmaniasis False-Negative Microscopy Readings Compared to PCR in Various Regions of Peru.”

Mentor: Dr. Jack Fuhrer

Briana LociceroMedical Humanities

Internalized HIV Stigma and Mindfulness: Associations with PTSD Symptom Severity in Trauma-Exposed Adults with HIV/AIDS.”

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Post

Layne MorowitzMedical Humanities

“An Analysis of Summer Camp as a Psychosocial Intervention for Children with Cancer.”

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Post

Jessica MounessaResearch

“Effect of Antirheumatic Drugs on Cholesterol Efflux in THP-1 Human Macrophages.”

Mentor: Dr. Allison Reiss

Erik NielsenResearch

“Effect of Keratin-17 Expression in Human Breast Cancer Cells.”

Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Shroyer

Naureen OsmanResearch

“Determining the Optimal Treatment for Deep Partial Thickness Burns in Swine.”

Mentor: Dr. Adam Singer

Kelsie PhelanGlobal Health

“Polysomnographic Assessment of Sleep Disorders in Rural Areas of Low- and Middle-Income Countries. A Feasibility Study in Atahualpa (Rural Coastal Ecuador).”

Mentor: Dr. Mark Sedler

Elizabeth ReaganResearch

“The Association Between Cerebral Oxygenation and Brain Waves Measured by Cerebral Oximetry and Electroencepha-lography (EEG) During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): A Feasibility Study.”

Mentor: Dr. Sam Parnia

Nicole RiveraSocial Sciences

“The Impact of Social Interactions on Daily Pain Perception and Depression in Adults with Osteoarthritis of the Knee.”

Mentor: Dr. Dylan Smith

Sien RiveraMedical Humanities

“Barriers to Accessing End of Life Care: A Review of 30 Years of Literature.”

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Post

Haleema SajidResearch

“Effect of Nitric Oxide on Endothelial Cell Growth after Exposure to Oxidative Stress and Nutrient Deprivation.”

Mentor: Dr. Adam Singer

Leena ShahResearch

“Hypoglycemia and Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with Diabetes.”

Mentor: Dr. Joshua Miller

Shadman SinhaMedical Humanities

“Theater Training as Effective Therapy in Parkinson’s Disease: Quantifying the Qualitative.”

Mentor: Dr. Mary Kritzer

George TaylorResearch

“Recovery of T-Helper Cell Population and Immune Antibody Titers Following Non-Myeloablative Antineoplastic Chemo-therapy in Children.”

Mentor: Dr. Robert Parker

Jonathan WachtelResearch

“The Effect of Sex Hormones in the Subthalamic Nucleus on Cognitive Impairment in a Rodent Model of Early Parkinson’s Disease.”

Mentor: Dr. Mary Kritzer

Katarzyna Zabrocka Medical Humanities

“Hope and Resiliency in Chronically Ill Children and Their Families: A Narrative Perspective.”

Mentor: Dr. Stephen Post

Shouling ZhangResearch

“Epidemiological Trends, Risk Factors, and Readmissions Among New York City Preterm Infants with Apnea.”

Mentor: Dr. Elliot Regenbogen 9

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Time is different during Medical School. Unlike the world outside our little bubble, it’s not marked by seasons, holidays, and vacations. Instead we count the passage of time exam-by-exam, mini-freak-out after mini-freakout. As a result, the perception of the passage of time can be strange amongst our kind. The old adage about days that go slowly and year’s that fly by definitely applies. So if the focus tends to be nearsighted, locked on getting through that next paper or exam or OSCE, how then do medical students conceive of and execute Scholarly Concentration Projects that span all four years of med school? Well in our small study (n=2), the answer – not surprisingly – is that these projects change dramatically over the years, just as we do.

If you were to examine the poster we presented during the SCP Research Day looking for signs of its origins in our separate SCP applications from the spring of our first year, you’d come away empty-handed. Marc sought to explore the ethics of global health disparities whilst floating in a remote Panamanian archipelago in a boat full of doctors. Meanwhile, Jeremiah’s goal was quite simple: he would spend his time “Exploring the aesthetic, linguistic, and auditory underpinnings of film/video stimuli meant to illicit empa-thetic vs. sympathetic responses” – if it’s not clear what that all means, don’t be alarmed, he might not know either.

Now we did indeed spend a good deal of our SCP time pursu-ing these topics. Both SCP projects were in the field of medical humanities and ethics, the true topic of passion that drove our studies. But by the end of our SCP experience, we had shifted gears and devoted considerable time and effort to a joint project that was completely different: “Social Health 101,” a mobile app for Stony Brook medical students and residents. We feel this shift away from our initial proposals is perfectly in line with the goals of the SCP program:

1. To provide encouragement, impetus, and support for engaging in additional extracurricular scholarly pursuits aligned with one’s own area of interest.

2. To facilitate the attainment of valuable career experience in areas and projects related to medicine as a comple-ment to students’ didactic medical education.

We absolutely found a scholarly pursuit aligned with our interests. Unsurprisingly, our interests, as they should and frequently do, shifted and evolved over the last four incredibly transformative

years. We attained incredible experiences that will without a doubt shape our careers.

So by now you’d probably like to hear about this wonderful project whose pull was so strong as to tear us away from boats and aes-thetics. In the current landscape where a person’s race, culture, or socioeconomic status has been shown to directly influence their health outcomes, we don’t have to convince most providers that the “social determinants of health” are incredibly important. Now more than ever, a physician’s “assessment and plan” has to be socially conscious. Our observation – born over the course of our clerkships (which we completed together) – is that most clinicians have the desire to deliver comprehensive and socially impactful health care, but many of them lack the “know-how” to deliver that care. Enter “Social Health 101: Beyond the Diagnosis.” #SH101 is a mobile (i.e. iPhone) reference tool aimed at bridging the gap between desire and delivery. Through condensed and easy-to-un-derstand synopsis pages, SH101 compiles, organizes, and teaches both what social support resources are available to patients here on Long Island and what you need to know to use those resources to better take care of the most vulnerable patients.

In a nutshell, we envision Social Health 101 to be the go-to resource for med students and residents in active clinical duties who are just too busy to go searching the web to learn about WIC and whether their patient might qualify for free legal aid, or search to find a food pantry near a patient’s home. Since the app is organized by patient demographics (e.g. “Resources for Pregnant Women and Families”) and by patient problems (e.g. “Mental Health, Addiction, and Abuse” or “Heat, Housing, and Food Insecurity”), the physician-in-training who would have never even heard of WIC (an unfortunate truth at any academic medical school) could easily browse pertinent resources without any prior knowledge of what’s available.

Sounds great, right!? We think so too, and we hope the app will help med students become better med students, better residents, and better physicians. We’re currently in the process of publishing the app to the iTunes store and our goal is to have the app loaded on every iPad given to this year’s incoming med school class and every iPhone given to this year’s incoming intern class. Regardless of outcome, though, we both feel resolute in the efficacy of the Scholarly Concentration Program to facilitate the high goals it sets. For it’s in the freedom to shift and to evolve alongside one’s changing interests that the true brilliance of a four-year longitu-dinal project staffed by day-to-day, panic-to-panic, med student dramatists, comes into clear view.

Social Health 101 and the Scholarly Concentrations

Program: Beyond the Diagnosis…and Beyond

the Curriculum. Marc Delaney, MSIV and Jeremiah Joyce, MSIV

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There was a time when many phy-sicians sat at the laboratory bench undergoing rigorous scientific investigations. In Sinclair Lewis’ 1925 Pulitzer Prize winning novel Arrowsmith the main character Dr. Martin Arrowsmith rushes from treating patients in his medical clinic at home to conducting sci-entific experiments in his base-

ment. In order to face the challenges of discovering new ways to identify and treat disease, you had to be on the front lines—at the bedside listening to the cough, measuring the pressures, sampling the wound. You would see patients during the day and sit late into the evening in the depths of the laboratory formu-lating hypotheses, followed by test and retest experimentation. For the better part of 500 years, this is how medical science was done.

Unfortunately by the mid 20th century, due to the demands of clinical practice, the number of physician scientists dropped dra-matically. There was further decline in the number of physicians applying for research grants through the National Institutes of Health. In the 1960s and 70s, to rejuvenate the workforce of physician scientists, many medical schools began to develop Medical Scientist Training Programs (MSTP). These programs provided structure and support to train physicians in medical school to attain the skillset needed to conduct competent scien-tific research. This culminated in the MSTP student completing both M.D. and Ph.D. training in typically 7-9 years of training before moving onto further medical and scientific pursuits in residency training and beyond.

Fortunately for the budding physician scientist, Stony Brook University Medical School has invested considerable time and energy for over 20 years developing a highly successful MSTP program. In 2008, after spending 3 years conducting brain-imag-ing research at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, I decided to take the plunge to train as both physi-cian and scientist. After 9 years of training (4 for M.D. training, 5 for Ph.D., training) the experience has been truly rewarding, humbling, and I owe my much of intellectual development to the supportive and nurturing environment at Stony Brook.

The path to innovation demands perseverance, tenacity, and hard work. We often read about the rapid pace of discovery. In reality, for the scientist and physician scientist, this pace can be anything but rapid. Taking into account research training, labora-tory investigations, scientific journal submissions, resubmission and publication, the delayed gratification of finally sharing your discovery with the world can take decades. Still, it is the com-manding and resounding pulse of impassioned excitement for discovery and a real willingness to help cure the ailing that guides us forward. I have had the good fortune of dedicating years of Ph.D. training discovering and dissecting the component pieces of brain circuitry implied in mental illness. With this strong foun-dation, starting in June I will begin a research track residency in psychiatry at Stanford University. Here, I can continue to work to uncover mechanisms of psychiatric disorders with the hope of developing better therapies for the large swath of people who suffer from mental health challenges ranging from depression, anxiety, psychosis, and addiction. For me, this medical scientist training has not been merely a shuffling between two worlds, wearing two hats, a juggling act of clinician and scientific inves-tigator, it has been a gradual evolution where physician and scientist become one.

The Physician and Scientist Become OneJason Tucciarone

Editors: Richard J. (Rick) Iuli, Ph.D. Medical Education Specialist, Office of Undergraduate Medical Education, School of Medicine

Caroline R. Lazzaruolo Registrar, School of Medicine

Graphic Designer: Danielle Greco

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Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and the Gold Foundation Humanism Honor Society

Opeyemi Ajibade

Nkoli Akaolisa

Meghana Anugu

Jonathan Barthelet

Nally Calzado

Elaine Carelus

Laviel Fernandez

Jadry Gruen

Sloane Heller

Jill Hsia

Jeremiah Joyce

Sara Kryeziu

Layne Morowitz

Elizabeth Reagan

Nora Stillman

Karen Tsai

Katarzyna Zabrocka

Shouling Zhang

AOA Honor Medical SocietyMohamad Adada

Paula Askalsky

Jonathan Barthelet

Michael Borrero

Elizabeth Cusick

Chelsea Dahl

Marc Delaney

Anke Eder

Laviel Fernandez

Jill Hsia

Jeremiah Joyce

Matthew Lacey

Eric Lepkowsky

Layne Morowitz

Cindy Ocran

Amanda Pawlak

Justin Putnam

Nicole Rivera

Ganesh Thippeswamy

Katarzyna Zabrocka

Gold Foundation Humanism Honor Society

Diaspora of Color 2017

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On February 22nd, 2017 the Stony Brook Chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) hosted the Annual “Celebrate! The African Diaspora” event. The evening, traditionally held during Black History Month, was a celebration of black his-tory and cultural diversity in the Stony Brook Medicine community. This year hosted Mr. Carl Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly, District 83, as our Guest Speaker and Guest of Honor. Also featured at the event were a host of performers, including the Stony Brook School of Medicine Lymph Notes; Music and Medicine; Stony Brook

undergraduate dance team Le Afrique; members of the Spirit of Stony Brook Marching Band; the Caribbean Steel Band; and several SBU faculty and stu-dents from the East and West campuses. The event brought the Stony Brook Community together, and it was truly a night of celebration!

Give Back – We thank the School of Medicine Alumni for their continuous support.

For further information or to make a donation, please visit: http://www.stonybrook.edu/alumni/ chapters/school-of-medicine/#view-scholarship

or feel free to contact Duante Stanton at duante.stanton@stonybrook.edu.