Maria A. Basile, MD, MBA
Clinical Assistant Professor and Associate Center Director
Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine
Human Values and Medicine
Literature and Medicine
Medical Professionalism
Physician Leadership
Professional Identity Formation
Office Phone: (631) 444-6785
E-mail: Maria.Basile@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook, Dr. Maria Basile, serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics. Award-winning poet, surgeon and medical educator, Dr. Basile is a dynamic and respected physician leader for more than 3 decades.
Dr. Basile teaches major components of the core pre-clinical curriculum for medical students, contributes to clinical teaching in the clerkship years including reflection rounds, engaging in ethics consultation through the Hospital Ethics Committee, and actively mentoring medical students in the scholarly concentration program. She teaches in the Masters’ degree program, engages in scholarly activities with an emphasis on narrative medicine and the use of reflective writing in the process of professional identity formation, and contributes to the intellectual and scholarly life of the Center. Dr. Basile advances the Center with forward-thinking collaborative leadership in an atmosphere of active service to the wider medical school community and to the development of physician humanists.
Dr. Basile is passionately involved with organized medicine and is the only woman to have served as President of the Suffolk County Medical Society twice, building community partnerships between the medical society and community-based organizations through the Long Island Health Collaborative and NYS DSRIP. She served as Vice-speaker and Commissioner of Communications for the Medical Society of the State of New York and is a Delegate from New York to the American Medical Association.
Dr. Basile is a regular contributor to the Poetry and Medicine section of the Journal of the American Medical Association. She is the author of two chapbook poetry collections, Minimally Invasive: poems from a life in surgery and New, Not New: 15 things I’d like to know when I see you after quarantine. Her work has been published in literary and peer reviewed medical journals and anthologized with the creative writing of physicians and other caregivers. She is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Humanities.