Welcome to the Website of the Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University Medical Center. It is my pleasure to tell you about our program. I hope you are excited by and want challenges.  If you are interested in striving for excellence in an intellectually rigorous program with a major teaching emphasis, we are for you!

First, let me tell you about Stony Brook. We are one of four medical centers of the far-flung SUNY system. Stony Brook is much more, however. We have a thousand acre campus in Western Suffolk County on the North Shore (Gold Coast) of Long Island. We are five minutes from Long Island Sound, and it is easy to see across the water to the Connecticut coastline from the Hospital and Medical Center. Stony Brook is a University Campus, with undergraduate and graduate schools. In addition to the Medical School, there are Schools of Dentistry, Nursing, Allied Health, and Social Services. Stony Brook is the major employer in Suffolk County. Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which make up Long Island, are home to approximately three million people. We are a suburb of New York City (travel distance to Manhattan ranges from 60 minutes to 90 minutes plus, depending on traffic). Stony Brook offers an ideal community. You are close to the excitement of New York City, as well as the Hamptons and New England, you are close to the water as well as farms, vineyards, beaches, forests, and camping trails. You have all the amenities of a City, yet can live on an acre or more of land. You are 20 minutes away from rolling stretches of uninhabited lands, as well as the most modern shopping malls. It's ruly a beautiful area, with one of the top public school systems in the country.

Stony Brook is the only Medical School on Long Island. Sister institutions are Cold Spring Harbor, and Brookhaven National Laboratories. One of our faculty collaborates with Cold Spring Harbor, doing cutting edge research on stem cells. Several of our faculty have active collaborations with the Brookhaven group (this includes four tesla MRI, MR spectroscopy, and a world-famous PET facility). Stony Brook University Medical Center is known for its basic science, computer, and physics strengths. On a much broader scale there is great strength in the neurosciences, with an outstanding Department of Neurobiology as well as neurology research programs in the Departments of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Microbiology, to name a few.

Stony Brook has superb Neuroradiology support (state of the art three tesla MRI, cutting edge interventional radiology, MR spectroscopy). We have programs in Neuro-Ophthalmology, and Neuro-Urology. We have two diverse hospital experiences: the Stony Brook University Medical Center, and the Northport Veterans Administration Hospital. Our Medical Center has a NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center, which provides active support for a variety of clinical trials, programs.

Our department has a commitment to teaching, clinical care, and research. We include divisions of Clinical Neurophysiology (with training in EEG and EMG, including inpatient and outpatient monitoring facilities, intraoperative monitoring, and access to a sleep laboratory), Neuropsychology (both adult and pediatrics), Child Neurology (including special interest groups in Epilepsy, Developmental Disabilities, Pediatric AIDS, and Autism), and Vascular Neurology (with an accredited training program, board certified faculty, close cooperation with Vascular Surgery, Interventional Radiology, and Cardiology, and an emphasis on clinical trials and neuroimaging research).  We have a very strong program in Multiple Sclerosis/Neuroimmunology (including multiple clinical trials, Neuroimaging research, the only Pediatric MS Center in the country, and a focus on gender issues in MS). I direct the Stony Brook MS Center, which has a national and international reputation. We also have strong programs in Neuromuscular Disease (with a particular interest in ALS, and nerve/muscle biopsies), Neurologic Infections (with a particular interest in emerging pathogens), Parkinson's Disease, Neurorehabilitation, and Behavioral Neurology.

Our Residents have access to some unique opportunities. We offer a movement disorders elective, clinical trials elective, and the ability to arrange research programs with other departments as well as our affiliates. We have a special Pediatric Neurology Series for adult neurology, as well as a number of other innovative teaching initiatives. We encourage our residents getting involved in writing articles, and submitting papers to present at the Annual Neurology Meetings. Our residents go on to topnotch fellowship programs. We encourage dual program applicants (Neurology with Medicine, Psychiatry, Pediatrics). We also have a very gender friendly environment, since over half of our faculty is women.

If Stony Brook sounds interesting to you, please don't hesitate to contact us. I'll be happy to tell you more about us!