Dr. Newton joined the Stony Brook Emergency Medicine faculty in 2003 following her return to the U.S. from Auckland, New Zealand, where she had been working since sailing there on a 34-foot boat with her husband in 2001. She has held faculty appointments at several medical schools including Harvard and Tufts. She is currently a member of the Ethics Committee and Consult Service, is involved in medical student education in the pre-clinical years, and runs the monthly departmental journal club. Her academic interests include evidence based medicine, medical ethics, and physician education and the biomedical industry.