The Department of Medicine News and Events

Posted by Internal Medicine on February 9, 2023
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the promotion of Patricia Ng, M.D., FACP, to Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the Renaissance School of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Dr. Ng is a prominent faculty member in the Division of General, Geriatrics and Hospital Medicine and is an outpatient General Internist at the Stony Brook Primary Care Center. She currently serves as the Primary Care Track Director and Associate Program Director of Stony Brook’s Internal Medicine Residency Program.

Posted by Internal Medicine on February 6, 2023
The Department of Medicine is honored to announce that Bettina Fries, MD, FIDSA, FACP, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, and Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, has been elected to a lifetime fellows honor in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Section of Medical Sciences.

Posted by Internal Medicine on January 27, 2023
The Department of Medicine is extremely proud to announce that Dr. Sandeep K. Mallipattu, Professor and Chief, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, has been elected to membership in the prestigious American Society For Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

Posted by Internal Medicine on January 24, 2023
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Susan W. Lane, MD, FACP, Stony Brook Medicine, has been elected an At-Large Member of the AΩA Board of Directors.
Dr. Lane is currently a Professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Director and Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Medicine in the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.

Posted by Internal Medicine on January 16, 2023
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that the Stony Brook cardio-oncology program is the first in our region to be awarded an IC-OS Gold Medal, and the program is recognized as an IC-OS Center of Excellence by the International Cardio-Oncology Society.

Posted by Internal Medicine on January 16, 2023
January 13, 2023
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Posted by Internal Medicine on December 22, 2022
We are pleased to announce a very exciting news in the world of genetics. Most human diseases have genetic components. Traditional classification of genetic diseases as monogenic and polygenic has lagged far behind scientific progress in the era of genomic medicine. Dr. Qingping Yao and his collaborators, Dr. Peter Gorevic, Dr. Bo Shen and Dr.