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Linda Bily, MA
Linda Bily is the director of patient advocacy and community outreach for Cancer Services
at Stony Brook. She coordinates all non-clinical services for patients, including
support groups, physical activities and financial counseling. Her collaboration with
community partners provides comforting amenities such as hot lunches, inspirational
artwork, wigs, manicures and holiday food baskets. More recently she has spearheaded
the creation of the GATE (Guest Artists to Empower) program, an arts-in-medicine program
offered to oncology patients on the inpatient units. Linda has been published in msJAMA,
Cochrane Collaboration, Extraordinary Healers and What Helped Me Get Through This.
Linda is a well received motivational speaker, nationally recognized advocate grant
reviewer and the recipient of numerous awards focused on cancer survivorship.
She has studied multiple marginalization and the intersections of gender, race, poverty, and disability. She currently studies capacity building and health promotion for people with disabilities through participatory intervention research with community non-profit organizations. Current research involves peer mentoring and overcoming barriers to physical and recreational activity for children and adults with Multiple Sclerosis and cultural representations of Autism, communication, family and community. Recent publications discuss teaching disability studies in community health and rehabilitation programs.
Turhan Canli, PhD
Turhan Canli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and a neuroscientist
and psychologist working on the brain basis of individual differences in emotion and
personality. He has also published, and appeared as a contributor to a PBS program,
on the topic of neuroethics–an emerging field of inquiry that is concerned with the
ethical implications of neuroscientific discovery. Dr. Canli uses cutting-edge methodologies,
including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetic brain stimulation,
and molecular genetic techniques to investigate how we differ from each other in our
responses to emotional experiences. He received the 2002 American Psychological Association
Grand Marquis Award for the best publication in Behavioral Neuroscience in the preceding
year and his work has been featured in numerous national and international newspapers,
magazines, and radio shows. Specific areas of expertise: Brain Imaging. Brain Stimulation. fMRI. Brain Basis of Emotion, Personality, and
Sex Differences. Neuroethics.
Gregg Cantor, DO, MA
Born and raised on Long Island, Gregg Cantor, DO, MA, completed his medical school
training at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine. Following medical school, he completed
his Internal Medicine training at Stony Brook University Hospital and he is currently
in the third year of his Cardiology Fellowship program, also at Stony Brook. Since
medical school, Gregg has had an interest in bioethics, which led him to complete
a Master’s Degree in Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics during
his residency training. Gregg continues to utilize the skills that he gained through
this Master’s program with his patients daily.
Latha Chandran MD, MPH
Dr. Chandran is currently the Vice Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and Professor
of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Stony Brook University Medical Center.
She received her MD from Kerala University, Medical College Trivandrum and her MPH
from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Chandran has several years of faculty leadership
experience. During her tenure as Division Director of General Pediatrics, she led
a successful expansion of primary care access in the areas surrounding Stony Brook
University Medical Center incorporating resident and medical student education as
well as ensuring financial solvency. She has experience on academic promotions and
tenure committee and was instrumental in creating guidelines to facilitate promotion
of clinician educators using an educator portfolio template. Dr. Chandran was the
first clinician educator to receive tenure in the Educator Scholar track at Stony
Brook University Medical Center. Dr. Chandran is the co-director of a large, three-year
national faculty development and certification program–the Academic Pediatric Association’s
Educational Scholars Program with forty current scholars. Scholarly work related to
this project has been disseminated widely. In addition, she is a graduate of the Executive
Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program through Drexel University, Harvard
Macy Institute Program for Physician Educators, AAMC Professional Development Seminars
and Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers from Harvard
School of Public Health. She is the recipient of numerous awards including teaching
awards.
Jane M. Chun, PhD
As an inter-disciplinary scholar and practitioner, Dr. Jane Chun works at the intersection
of inner states of being and organizations and systems. As Program Director of Specialized
Programs at the Compassion Institute, she oversees initiatives in healthcare and social
change. Jane is also a Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) instructor. She has led
trainings and has spoken at the UN Development Program (UNDP), Columbia Business School,
World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Brookings Institute, and University of Oxford.
She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford where her research investigated the
intersection of human ecology, decision sciences, and forced migration.
Vincent de Luise, MD Vincent P. de Luise, MD FACS is an Assistant Clinical Professor Of Ophthalmology at Yale University School Of Medicine, and adjunct clinical professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College where he also serves on the Humanities and Medicine Committee and Music and Medicine Initiative. He is physician program chair of the Connecticut Society of Eye Physicians and is on the teaching faculty of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Dr de Luise is also a clarinetist, is president of the Connecticut Summer Opera Foundation, and co-founded the annual classical music recital at the American Academy of Ophthalmology. As a Harvard fellow, he has been engaged in developing a national humanities rubric for medical school pedagogy.
Lisa Diedrich, PhD
Lisa Diedrich received her PhD in Women's Studies from Emory University in 2001. Since
then, she has taught in the Women’s Studies Program at Stony Brook University. Her
research and teaching interests include feminist cultural studies of science and medicine,
disability studies, and feminist theories and methodologies. She is the author of
Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness (Minnesota, 2007). She is also the editor (with Victoria Hesford) of Feminist Time Against Nation Time (Lexington, 2008). She is currently working on two projects. The first is called
A Prehistory of AIDS: Doing Health and Illness, 1960-1985, and traces the continuities and discontinuities between AIDS activism in the early
1980s and several earlier transformations of the practices of health and illness,
including, for example, the emergence of Family Practice as a new specialization within
medicine, and the emergence of health activist movements, like the women's health
movement, that would influence medicine from the outside. The second project begins
where the first leaves off, around 1985, and explores the scientific, medical, political,
and economic enactments of "breast cancer on Long Island," through oral history and
discourse analysis of the popular media accounts and scientific studies of the possible
relationship between breast cancer and the environment of Long Island.
Suzanne D. Fields, MD
Suzanne D. Fields is Director of the Long Island Geriatric Education Center. LIGEC is part of a national network of 45 geriatric education centers funded by
the Bureau of Health Professions of the US Department of Health and Human Services
Administration. It is also a member of the Coalition of New York Geriatric Education
Centers. The education and training programs focus on primary and transitional care,
health promotion and disease prevention, multicultural aging, patient safety, and
outreach to medically underserved communities.
Iris Granek, MD
Iris Granek is Founding Chair of the Department of Family, Population and Preventive
Medicine.
Magdalen E. Hull, MD, MPH
Dr. Hull is a Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive
Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and at the Northwell Health
Hofstra School of Medicine. She received her B.S. in Biology from Fordham University
and her M.D. degree from New York Medical College. After completing her residency
at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine and Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology
at Wayne State University, she joined the full time faculty at Stony Brook in 1985.
She is board certified in Ob/Gyn and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. While
at Stony Brook, she received her MPH in Health Policy Management from the Mailman
School of Public Health at Columbia University in 1995. That same year, she became
the Chief of Reproductive Medicine at Winthrop University Hospital. She was named
by New York Magazines’ Doctors in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in 1999
and 2003 and is a member of ACOG, ASRM and the New York Obstetrical Society. She also
volunteers at Project Hope through St Hugh’s Church in Huntington, St. Anthony’s High
School Mother’s Guild and is a member of Soroptomist International. She joined the
Suffolk County Department of Health Services in 2006 and has served as medical director
of the Family Planning program. She has published articles concerning endometriosis
and its treatment concerning infertility. Recently retired from Suffolk County, she
is now pursuing a Certificate in Bioethics at Hofstra University School of Law and
interests in ethics of assisted reproductive technologies and teaches biomedical ethics
to medical students.
Raja Jaber, MD
Dr. Raja Jaber is the Director of the Wellness and Chronic Illness Program in the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine and Clinical Associate
Professor of Family Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital and Medical Center.
Dr Jaber co-directs and teaches the nutrition course to first- and second-year medical
students and teaches integrative family medicine to medical students and residents.
She received her MD with distinction from the American University of Beirut, is an
Alpha Omega Alpha member, is board-certified in Family Medicine, and is a Diplomate
of the American Board of Holistic Medicine. She is listed in the Best Doctors of America
List. Her clinical model integrates conventional medicine with nutritional, mind-body
and exercise/manual medicine. The model is team-based and collaborative. Her mission
is to help create a viable model of integrative primary care, based in a bio-psychosocial
comprehensive approach, and emphasizing wellness, lifestyle management, self management
and personal growth. She has conducted a successful group visits program for patients
with hyperlipidemia, asthma, and osteoporosis, and conducts stress reduction workshops
based on mindfulness meditation. Dr. Jaber has published several articles on the process
of change, the doctor-patient relationship, and group visits.
Elizabeth Ann Kaplan, PhD
E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural
Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directs The Humanities Institute. She is Past President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Kaplan has written
many books and articles on topics in cultural studies, media, and women's studies,
from diverse theoretical perspectives including psychoanalysis, feminism, postmodernism,
and post-colonialism. She has given lectures all over the world and her work has been
translated into six languages. Kaplan’s pioneering research on women in film (viz
her Women in Film: Both Sides of the Camera, Women in Film Noir and Motherhood and Representation) continues to be in print and influential in the United States and abroad. Kaplan co-edited
three volumes that emerged from research undertaken at the Humanities Institute, one
of which, Playing Dolly: Technologies and Fantasies of Assisted Reproduction (1997) (co-edited with Susan Squier) remains in print.Her recent books include Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations (co-edited with Ban Wang in 2004), Feminism and Film (2000) and a monograph, Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (2005). She is working on two further book projects, Public Feelings, Memory, and Affective Difference and The Unconscious of Age: Screening Older Women.
Eva Feder Kittay, PhD
Eva Feder Kittay is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University.
Her most recent books include Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Thinking Gender Series, Routledge, 1999). She is co-editing Theoretical Perspectives on Dependency and Women with Ellen Feder (Rowman and Littlefield), Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy with L. Alcoff (Blackwell), Special Issue of Hypatia: Feminism and Disability with A. Silvers and S. Wendell, and Special Issue of Social Theory and Practice: Embodied Values: Philosophy and Disabilities with R. Gottlieb. Areas of Specialization: Feminist philosophy, feminist ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, disability
studies. Additional Interests:Philosophy of language, normative ethics, social thought.
Matthew T. Lee, PhD
Matthew T. Lee, Ph.D., is Director of Empirical Research of the Human Flourishing
Program at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He
received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Delaware in 2000. He was a
Professor and Chair of sociology and an Interim Chair in anthropology and classical
studies at the University of Akron, with a secondary appointment in criminal justice
studies, in addition to serving as a Faculty Fellow in both the Center for Conflict
Management and the Center for Experiential Learning. He was Chair of the American
Sociological Association’s Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity and
President of the North Central Sociological Association. He is also a non-resident
Research Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. His current
research explores pathways to human flourishing, benevolent service to others, and
the integration of social science and the humanities.
Marci Lobel, PhD
Marci Lobel is Associate Professor of Social and Health Psychology. Her research focuses
on stress, coping, and their effects on women's reproductive health. Dr. Lobel is
Principal Investigator of the Stony Brook Pregnancy Project, a set of federally-funded
studies examining the impact of prenatal maternal stress on infant and maternal outcomes.
She also collaborates with teams of investigators in other states including Iowa,
Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia to examine the impact of domestic violence in
pregnancy, and to evaluate interventions for socioeconomically disadvantaged pregnant
and postnatal women. Her research has been published in numerous professional journals
and is widely cited in the popular media. Dr. Lobel is currently Consulting Editor
of The Psychology of Women Quarterly and previously served as Associate Editor of Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy. She teaches courses in the Psychology of Women's Health and is the recipient of
several teaching awards.
Marilyn London, EdD
Dr. Marilyn London is currently a Lecturer in the School of Professional Development.
She has taught in SPD for over 16 years, including Project Seminar (SPD and HEA-Higher
Education Administration Program), Cultural Diversity in American Musicals (SPD),
and Leadership in Higher Education Administration (HEA). She is also a Volunteer Clinical
Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine who facilitates small group sessions
in the Medicine in Contemporary Society II sections and the TTR course. She Also works
with medical students, interested in topics related to music, in the MD with Recognition
in Humanities Research program in the Stony Brook School of Medicine. Dr. London recently
retired from her position as Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Registrar for
the Stony Brook School of Medicine. Dr. London has an eclectic background. She holds
a Doctorate in Education from Rutgers University, a Master's Degree in Piano Performance
and a Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology, both earned at the University of Illinois,
Urban-Champaign. She co-authored a book called First Time Leaders of Small Groups
with Dr. Manny London and has co-taught an international Human Resources course. She
has also published in the field of music, and has presented several workshops and
posters at national and regional medical education conferences.
Dr. London has held several teaching and leadership positions during her career including working on several committees in the School of Medicine, developing a group piano program at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, running a library concert series in New Jersey, and co-leading the Belle Mead Friends of Music in New Jersey. As a young musician, Dr. London performed solo and four-hand piano in Illinois, Wisconsin, New Jersey, and locally across Long Island for over 20 years before moving into higher education administration. She also ran a private studio, and taught at Illinois Wesleyan University, Rutgers University, Westminster Choir College, and public and adult schools.
Robyn McKeefrey
Robyn McKeefrey is a Teaching and Research Baccalaureate prepared Certified Registered
Nurse at Stony Brook University Hospital who received her Nursing degree from Adelphi
University. Robyn's proficiency and expertise encompasses nearly thirty years in the
specialty of maternal health. Ms. McKeefrey benchmarked an obstetrical case management
program where she was pivotal in instituting the use of care maps along with a focus
on length of stay, admission, discharge and continued stay criteria. Ms. McKeefrey
is currently a Risk Manager where her goal and mission is to coordinate safe patient
care while integrating medicine and the law. Robyn received her Master of Arts degree
in Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics from Stony Brook University
which further enhance her abilities to coordinate medicine, law and ethics on a consultative
basis to the staff and community which she serves.
Salvatore Mangione, MD
Dr. Sal Mangione is a clinician-educator with a long interest in Physical Diagnosis,
Medical History and community service. After obtaining his MD summa cum laude from
the Catholic University of Rome, Dr. Mangione trained in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, before eventually moving to Jefferson Medical College where he is currently Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Program Director
for the Internal Medicine Residency, Director of the second year Physical Diagnosis
Course, and coordinator for the History of Medicine lecture series and the Jefferson
Medical Cineforum. Dr. Mangione’s innovative programs and engaging teaching style
have been recognized by multiple awards for excellence in clinical teaching, including
the 2005 Golden Apple Award, the 2006 Jefferson Portrait Presentation, and the 2009
Lindback Award. His work has also been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, CNN and NPR. (full bio)
Lester Paldy
Lester Paldy is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology
and Department of Technology and Society at Stony Brook where he has taught since
1967. He teaches the Global Issues course to seniors in the undergraduate Honors College
and is Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate
Care, and Bioethics. He served on the U.S. Geneva delegation that reached a nuclear
weapons testing agreement with the Soviet Union signed by Presidents G.H.W. Bush and
Mikhail Gorbachev and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. His interest in international efforts to ban nuclear, chemical, and biological
weapons led to his exploration of the origins of medical codes requiring informed
consent from research subjects.
Diane Ranieri, MA, RPAC
Diane Ranieri is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Physician Assistant
Education in the School of Health Technology and Management at Stony Brook. She teaches
in the entry level Physician Assistant Program in the areas of Medical Ethics, Pediatrics,
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gastrohepatology, Radiology, Dermatology and Infectious
Diseases. She also teaches Medical Ethics for the PA Post Professional Master's Program
as well as the Health Care Policy and Management Program. She received her BA, BS
and MA from Stony Brook University. She is the vice chair of the Academic Standing
Committee and is a member of the Curriculum Committee for the School of Health Technology
and Management. Her clinical experience includes interventional radiology, inpatient
pediatrics, neonatology, HIV care and outpatient pediatrics.
Michael Roess, PhD
Michael Roess was a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Medical Humanities,
Compassionate Care and Bioethics; Department of Family, Population and Preventive
Medicine. He earned his PhD in Philosophy at Stony Brook in 2012. Michael has published
in the areas of stem cell ethics, medical humanities, the development of compassionate
traits and practices among clinicians, and physician well-being.
Lisa Strano-Paul, MD
Dr. Lisa Strano-Paul is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at Stony Brook School of
Medicine and maintains an outpatient Primary Care Internal Medicine and Geriatric
practice. She is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. She is
the Assistant Dean for Clinical Education for the School of Medicine and Course Director
of the Primary Care Clerkship. Her educational focus has been to integrate geriatric
core competencies, promote end-of-life education and Professional Identity Formation
(PIF) throughout the medical school curriculum. She has developed curricular innovations
that promote PIF in the School of Medicine. Reflection Rounds began as a pilot project
funded by Templeton, Gwish foundations and has expanded after the funding cycle to
be a mandatory part of every clinical rotation in Phase II. Reflection Rounds provide
students with the opportunity to verbally reflection on their patient encounters with
trained faculty facilitators. This promotes the development their own inner resources
for addressing the suffering of others. She designed an end-of-life teaching module
which centers on an interprofessional home hospice visit and reflection on that experience.
This experience students has resulted in the students gaining a deep appreciation
of the human identity of hospice patients and a humanistic understanding of their
own role as future physicians and has had a lasting impact on students’ emerging professional
personas. She was invited to collaborate on a PIF project awarded to Drexel University
by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation in cooperation with Arthur Vining Davis Foundation.
This new resource, ProfessionalFormation.org focuses on a web based resource which
enhances learners’ professionalism and interprofessional team skills in order to improve
patient care. ProfessionalFormation.org will be a useful resource to faculty in role-modeling
and giving feedback on professional behavior and remediating professionalism lapses.
Nancy Tomes, PhD
Nancy Tomes is professor of history at Stony Brook University. A native of Louisville,
Kentucky, she received her undergraduate education at Oberlin College and the University
of Kentucky, and her doctorate in American history from the University of Pennsylvania.
While a fellow at the National Humanities Center, she developed Medicine and Madison Avenue, a digital collection on the history of health-related advertising. Her research
interests include the history of medicine, women and gender, and U.S. cultural history.
Her book The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life(Harvard University Press, 1998) was winner of the 2002 Welch Medal from the American
Association for the History of Medicine.
Clare Whitney, PhD, MBE, RN
Professor Whitney, Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at Stony Brook University,
mentors PhD students and teaches courses in the doctoral program. As a nurse scientist
and bioethicist, her teaching interests are in providing doctoral nursing students
with quality methodologic and ethical training to become scholars in their areas of
interest. Her program of scholarship is focused on uncovering the moral and ethical
dimensions of nursing care, especially in relation to the care of highly stigmatized
or underserved communities. She believes that the ability to provide patients with
excellent, compassionate, and humanistic care necessitates the understanding of clinicians'
ethical and moral considerations in care. She is particularly interested in qualitative
approaches to inquiry and theoretical foundations for nursing science. Professor Whitney
completed her undergraduate and graduate training in nursing and ethics at the University
Pennsylvania. Her dissertation research involved exploring the circumstances under
which clinicians moralize substance use during pregnancy and lactation.