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Stephen C. Vlay, MD, FACP, FACC

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Stephen C. Vlay, MD, FACP, FACC
Professor of Medicine

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
SUNY-Stony Brook
Health Sciences Center 11794
Stony Brook, NY 11794
Phone: 631-444-1060
Fax: 631-444-1054
E-mail: stephen.vlay@stonybrook.edu

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • AB, New York University - 1971
  • MD, Yale University School of Medicine - 1975
  • Residency in Internal Medicine, New York University, Bellevue Hospital Medical Center, New York, NY, 1975-1978
  • Fellow in Cardiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 1978-1980

BOARD CERTIFICATION

  • American Board of Internal Medicine, 1978
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, 1981
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, 1996

AREAS OF CLINICAL EXPERTISE

  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • Permanent Pacemakers
  • Internal Cardioverter Defibrillators
  • Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (Bi-ventricular pacing)
  • Cardiac Arrhythmias
  • Pharmacologic management of cardiac arrhythmias
  • Congestive Heart Failure
  • Clinical Cardiology

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Alternate site pacing in cardiac resynchronization
  • Right ventricular outflow tract pacing
  • New aspects of internal cardioverter defibrillators + pacemakers

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS/RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • New York Magazine Best Doctors of New York, 2005
  • Vlay SC. Fish pond electromagnetic interference resulting in an inappropriate ICD shock. PACE 2002; 25:1532.
  • Hauser RG, Cannom D, Hayes DL, Parsonnet V, Hayes J, Ratliff N, Tyers GFO, Epstein AE, Vlay SC, Furman S, Gross J. Long-term structural failure of coaxial polyurethane implantable cardioverter defibrillator leads. PACE 2002; 25:879-882.
  • Vlay SC. Editorial: Complications of Active-Fixation Electrodes. PACE 2002; 25:1153-1154.
  • Vlay SC: Alternatives when coronary sinus pacing is not possible. PACE 2003; 26:4-7.
  • Vlay SC. The Codeologist. PACE 2003; 26:1899.
  • Vlay SC. Orthotripsy mimicking asystole. PACE 2004; 27:563.
  • Vlay SC. Alternate site bi-ventricular pacing. Bi-V in the RV – Is there a role? PACE 2004; 27:567-569.
  • Vlay SC. “You have to make a contribution” PACE 2005; 28:1231.

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