The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the promotion of Abigail T. Chua, M.D., M.P.H., Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine to Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the Renaissance School of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Dr. Chua joined the faculty in 2018. She received her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed residency training in internal medicine, followed by fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore. Her clinical and academic work focuses on complex pulmonary disease, critical care medicine, and post-COVID conditions.
In 2025, Dr. Chua was named a New York Top Doctor Rising Star in Pulmonary. She has served as a guidelines methodologist for the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, contributing to national guideline development and evidence-based practice.
She currently leads the Mentorship Committee for the American Thoracic Society’s Critical Care Assembly, the society’s largest assembly, with an emphasis on faculty development, mentorship infrastructure, and workforce sustainability.
At Stony Brook, Dr. Chua serves as block director for the cardiopulmonary and renal course and is actively involved in undergraduate and graduate medical education. She has twice been invited to lecture at New York State Department of Health Grand Rounds. Her research focuses on post-COVID respiratory sequelae, including an ongoing clinical study evaluating diaphragm strengthening and operatic breathing training as a novel therapeutic intervention for patients with persistent breathlessness following COVID-19.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Chua on this well-earned promotion, and in recognizing her excellence as a clinician, leader, and educator within the Department of Medicine and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.
Sahar Ahmad, M.D.
Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Director of Ultrasound & Critical Care Education
Professor of Medicine with Tenure
Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Vincent W. Yang, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, AGAF, FAAAS
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Simons Chair of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, and Physiology & Biophysics
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University