Faculty and students from Stony Brook University’s School of Health Technology and Management, along with staff and volunteers from Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, co-hosted a successful “Connect to Your Health” Senior Citizen Health Fair at the Hampton Bays Senior Center on September 27, 2019.
Charles V. Guida, Board-Certified Geriatrician from Stony Brook Southampton Hospital (center) is joined by Applied Health Informatics Program Director Carmen McCoy (second from left, seated), Professor Giselle Gerardi (fifth from right) and graduate students in the Applied Health Informatics program and students from the School of Nursing, who took part in the “Connect to Your Health” Senior Health Fair in Southampton.
Student volunteers from the Applied Health Informatics (AHI) program and the Stony Brook University School of Nursing helped seniors learn how to use various health technologies. The fair provided seniors with information about tick disease as well as community resources and preventative health and patient portals. Seniors also received free blood pressure screenings and massages.
School of Nursing students provided blood pressure screenings under the leadership of Professor Giselle Gerardi, a registered nurse and professor in the Applied Health Informatics program. Volunteers from Southampton Hospital and Stony Brook Medicine also took part in the event.