Meet Our Fellowship Faculty and Staff

Grace La Torre, DO, MS, FACP
Director, Palliative Care Service, Stony Brook University Hospital
Director, Hospice & Palliative Medicine Education and Clerkships
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Michael Moskovitz, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship

Allison Kruger, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship

Stephanie Teachout, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship

Farhan Chowdhury, DO
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Grace Ker, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Dept. of Pediatrics

Rina Meyer MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Dept. of Pediatrics

Ayesha Munir, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Madieska Ramirez, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Meghana Rao, MBBS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

NURSE COORDINATOR

Tara McLaughlin-Whyte, RN, BSN, CHPN
Nurse Coordinator, Adult Palliative Care

Lori Lombardi
Nurse Coordinator, Outpatient

SOCIAL WORKER

Laura Goodman, LCSW, APHSW-C
Social Worker, Adult Palliative Care
 

Kimberley Negron, LCSW
Social Worker, Adult Palliative Care

Samantha Sweeney  LCSW, APHSW-C
Social Worker, Pediatric Palliative Care 

SPIRITUAL CARE 

Marta Gordon-Duffis, MsChap, MDiv, BCC, BCPC
Palliative Care Chaplain

Catherine Nicastri, MD
Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Progam
Associate Professor of Medicine

Anshu Singh, MD
Medical Director of the Long Island State Veterans Home
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Genine Francis, MD
Site Director
Good Shepherd Hospice

Brian Durkin, DO
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Pain Institute of Long Island

Lauren Jaronczyk
Fellowship Program Coordinator for Palliative Care Services

Rohan Shah
Palliative Care Services Administrative Coordinator