Faculty Affairs | Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

Welcome to the Office of Faculty Affairs at the Renaissance School of Medicine!

The mission of the Office of Faculty Affairs is to provide support to Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University faculty, particularly in the areas of career advancement, faculty development, professional satisfaction, faculty mentoring and faculty diversity and inclusion.

16th Annual Women in Medicine Research Day

We are now accepting abstracts for the 16th Annual Women in Medicine Research Day which will take place on April 6th. The abstract submission deadline is February 28th. For more information, please click here.

LINCATS Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Career Development Program

Congratulations to Drs April Castillo (Family, Population and Preventive Medicine) and Amanda Levinson (Psychiatry) for their selection as the inaugural 2021 awardees for the Long Island Network for Clinical and Translational Science (LINCATS) Mentored Clinical and Translational Research Career Development Program.

Dr. Castillo's project is titled 'Assessing whether antenatal colostrum expression improves duration of breastfeeding and rates of breastfeeding exclusivity'.

Dr. Levinson's project is titled 'Developing an Ecologically Valid Toolkit for the Assessment of Postpartum Maternal Reward Responsiveness'.

2021 Miriam and David Donoho Academy of Clinical & Educational Scholars Fellows

Junior Fellow	Senior Scholar
Dr. Glennis Alvarado Dept Medicine	Dr. Michelle Ballan Dept Family, Population & Prev. Medicine
Dr. Lauren Maloney Dept Emerg. Medicine	Dr. Stephen Post Dept Family, Population & Prev. Medicine
Dr. Theofano Orfanelli Dept ObGyn	Dr. Stephen Vitkun Dept Anesthesiology
Dr. Miguel Saldivar Dept Medicine	Dr. Luis Marcos Dept Medicine
Dr. Kathleen Scarbrough Dept Family, Population & Prev. Medicine	Dr. Barbara Nemesure Dept Family, Population & Prev. Medicine

New Faculty Orientation

Nov 9: General Orientation (Stella Tsirka and Faculty Affairs team)
Dec 10: Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure (Laura Fochtmann)

More sessions will be announced soon.

To attend the sessions, please contact Kimberly Malamutt.

2021 Renaissance School of Medicine Faculty Awards winners


Aesculapius Award for Excellence in Medical Education Dr. Kaveh Sadigh, Dept. Medicine	Early Career Research Excellence Award Dr. Joshua Plotkin, Dept. Neurobiology and Behavior	Senior Research Excellence Award Dr. Congwu Du, Dept. Biomedical Engineering	Excellence in Clinical Service Award Dr. John Ferretti, Dept. Radiology	The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award Presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Dr. Rina Meyer, Dept. Pediatrics

Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award Dr. Clinton Rubin, Dept. Biomedical Engineering	Excellence in Student Mentoring Award Dr. Kevin Zacharoff, Dept. Family, Population and Preventive Medicine	Excellence in Resident/Fellow Mentoring Award Dr. Smadar Kort, Dept. Medicine	Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award Dr. Miguel Garcia-Diaz, Dept. Pharmacological Sciences	Leadership Award Dr. Jennie Williams, Dept. Family, Population and Preventive Medicine