ACES Projects

An Educational Initiative to Address Racial Disparities  in Prostate Cancer Screening on Long Island, NY
Fellow: Dr. Kathleen Scarbrough/
Mentor: Dr. Barbara Nemesure
Develop a novel curriculum to address the psychosocial  needs of ESKD (End-stage kidney disease) patients and  assist in the transition toward kidney transplantation
Fellow: Dr. Sobia Khan / Mentor: Dr. Sandeep K. Mallipattu
Impact of Emergency Department Art Therapy on  Patients’ Self-Reported Pain and Anxiety
Fellow: Dr. Lauren Maloney / Mentor: Dr. Stephen Post
Founding a Stony Brook Post-ICU Clinic:  Improving Functional Outcomes in ICU Survivors
Fellow: Dr. Karissa Weidman / Mentor: Dr. Sahar Ahmad
The development of an integrated program for  academic mentorship and education
Fellow: Dr. Jin (Jims) Zhaosheng / Mentor: Dr. Ana Costa
Digital Horizons in Emergency Care: Developing &  Implementing a Hands-On Digital Health Curriculum  for Emergency Medicine Residents
Fellow: Dr. Samita Heslin / Mentor: Dr. Steve Vitkun
Proposal for the Development of a Novel Simulation Training   for Converting from Robotic to Open Surgery and In-Service Training
Fellow: Dr. Michael Ernst / Mentor: Dr. Andrew Feit 
Developing a Genetic Kidney Disease Curriculum for Nephrology Fellows
Fellow: Dr. Imran Chaudhri / Mentor: Dr.  Sandeep Mallipattu
Impact of In-Situ Mirror Simulation on Multi-Modal Competency Based Airway Management Training in Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine and Critical Care Medicine Fellowships
Fellow: Dr. Julia Powelson / Mentor: Dr.  Sahar Ahmad

Projects 2014-2017

 InvestigatorsDepartmentsProject Title
2017Sahar Ahmad, MD and Rajeev Patel, MDMedicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical CareA new paradigm for ultrasound education in graduate medical education.
2017Cordia Beverly, MD and Catherine Messina, PhDFamily, Population, and Preventive MedicineInterdisciplinary student team building to improve communication and community health education. 
2016Lynn Hallarman, MD, Samantha Nagengast, MD, Jennifer Heinemann, LMSW, Denise Snow, JD, Andrew Wackett, MD, & Iris Fineberg, PhD, MSW, OSW-CMedicine, Social Work, Emergency Medicine & the Office of Academic and Faculty AffairsWhen the diagnosis is the least of the patient’s problems…Recognizing and responding to health disparity impacting seriously ill patients.
2016Kaveh Sadigh, MD, MPH & TMMedicine, Division of CardiologyDevelopment of electronic learning modules to improve electrocardiogram training for preclinical medical students.
2016Suzan Schuval, MD, Maribeth Chitkara, MD, & Rahul Panesar, MDPediatrics, Division of Allergy/Immunology & Division of Critical Care MedicineKnowledge, attitudes and behaviors of third year medical students regarding anaphylaxis diagnosis and management.
2015Peggy A. Seidman, MD FAAP, Chris Page, MD, Matthew Tito, MD, Neera Tewari, DO, & Andrew Wackett, MDAnesthesiology, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, & the Office of Undergraduate Medical EducationDevelopment of ultrasound curriculum for preclinical medical students 
2015Nirvani Goolsarran MD FACP, Stacey Frawley, EdD ANP-BC RN, Colby Rowe, MS NRP FP-C, Susan Lane, MD FACPMedicine, School of Nursing, Center for Clinical Simulation and Patient SafetyDevelopment and Implementation of an Interprofessional Patient Safety and Quality Care curriculum in LEARN (I-PaSQuaL)
2015Lisa Strano-Paul, MD, Stephen Post, PhD, Gail Cohan, MD, & Anne CoulehanInternal Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Chaplaincy Services, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Family Medicine, PsychiatryReflection Rounds
 
2015Roderick Go, DOMedicineBusiness of Medicine: Quality and Value
2015Alice Greene, MD, Josephine Connolly Schoonen, PhD, RD, Margaret McNurlan, PhD, Aurora Pryor, MD, Colby Rowe, RNMedicine, Family Medicine, Surgery, Clinical Skills CenterContemporary Issues in Medicine:  The prevention and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity.  An Innovative Curriculum to Prepare Future Physicians to Meet the Demands of a Global Crisis.
2014Stephen G. Post, PhD, Lisa Strano-Paul, MD, Lory Bright-Long, MD, Janet Fischel, PhD, Carla Keirns, MD PhD, Vrajesh Patel, MD, Michael Vetrano, PhDMedicine, Preventive Medicine, Pediatrics, PsychiatryThe Santiago Family
2014Raja Jaber, MD, Gerardo Mackenzie, PhD, Lynette Dias, PhD, Igor Kravets, MDBerrin Monteleone, MD, Margaret McNurlan, PhD, Jules Cohen, MDGenetics, Medicine, Preventive Medicine, SurgeryThe Tallock Family
2014Anu Chawla, MD, Bonny Drago, MD, Patricia Galvin-Parton, MD, Catherine Kier, MD, Jonathan Mintzer, MD, Deborah Richman, MBChB, Sanford Simon, MD, Paul Richman, MDAnesthesiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Medicine, PediatricsThe Olander Family
 
2014Linda E. Cimino, EdD, Paul Fisher, MD PhD, Miguel Garcia-Diaz, PhD, Roger Cameron, PhD, Marie Varela, PharmD, Owen Yen, MD, Marc Shapiro, MD, Stephen A. Vitkun, MD PhDAnesthesiology, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Physiology, SurgeryThe Nicholls Family
2014Joan Kiely, Jennie Williams, PhD, Iris Graneck, MD, Paula Denoya, MD, Juan Carlos Bucobo, MDCenter for Science and Mathematics Education, Medicine, Preventive MedicineThe Yelamos Family