Bettina Fries, MD |
Dr. Bettina Fries is a nationally recognized physician-scientist in the field of microbiology. Dr. Fries received her medical degree from the University of Freiburg and completed residency and fellowship training in Infectious Disease at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The focus of her research is on the pathogenesis of chronic infection by the pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans, as well as investigations on efficacy of anti-infective antibodies. Dr. Fries is a full professor and chief of the division of Infectious Disease at Stony Brook University. |
Jill Genua, MD |
Dr. Jill C. Genua is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stony Brook Medicine. She is board certified in general surgery and colon and rectal surgery. In addition to an active hybrid academic and community practice in colon and rectal surgery, Dr. Genua serves as a faculty member of Medicine in Contemporary Society for phase one and two medical students At Stony Brook, is active in several national surgical societies and serves on multiple committees at Stony Brook. Dr. Genua’s research interest involves hereditary gastrointestinal cancer and the molecular basis of colorectal cancer. Dr. Genua is a graduate of Siena College and Albany Medical College. She completed her general surgery residency at Stamford Hospital/Columbia Presbyterian and her colorectal training at the Cleveland Clinic in Florida. |
 Molly Gale Hammell, PhD |
Dr. Molly Gale Hammell is an Associate Professor in the Quantitative Biology department at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Her research focuses on retrotransposons in human disease. She also cares an awful lot about diversity and inclusion in science. |
 Helen Hsieh, MD/PhD |
Dr. Helen Hsieh is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital where she practices General Pediatric Surgery. Her research interests focus on pain management in pediatric patients and the impact of general anesthetics on synaptic function and neuronal development. |
 Julie Kim, MD/PhD |
Dr. Julie Kim is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where she specializes in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. She was a 2017 Dartmouth Public Voices Fellow and is the author of opinion pieces published in the Huffington Post and AAMC News. Her work covers a range of topics including pediatric cancer and opiate addiction to professionalism and pedagogy in medical school. |
 Susan Lane, MD |
Dr. Susan Lane is a Professor of Medicine and serves as Vice Chair for Education for the Department of Medicine and is the Program Director for the Stony Brook Internal Medicine Residency Program, the largest residency program in Suffolk County. Dr. Lane serves as a Councilor for the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM). Dr. Lane is a general internist who teaches general medicine to medical students and residents at the Stony Brook Internists medical office in East Setauket, New York. Dr. Lane is married to Dr. Andrew Lane, a pediatric endocrinologist at Stony Brook, and they have 3 sons, Henry, Teddy, and Matthew. |
 Nicole Leavey, PhD |
Dr. Nicole J. Leavey is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. She holds a Ph.D. in Technology, Policy and Innovation from Stony Brook University, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her research interests focus on public engagement actions of scientists, science communication training and gender roles. She also contributes to evidence-based curriculum design and delivers communication training for scientists at both academic and professional institutions. |
 Jill Mahon, MD |
Dr. Jill Mahon is a PGY3 psychiatry resident physician at Stony Brook University. Dr. Mahon received her MD from Stony Brook University and her BS from University of New York Fredonia. |
 Laura Maiorino, PhD |
Dr. Laura Maiorino received her M.S in Medical, Molecular and Cellular Biotechnology from San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy. In 2019, she graduated with a PhD from the Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. For her thesis work she joined the Egeblad Lab, where she studied the cellular mechanisms that drive metastasis, which is the spread of cancer to distant sites. During her PhD, she developed tools to visualize cancer cells that are spreading to the liver in anesthetized animals, while also tracking their gene expression. Moreover, she discovered a targetable mechanism, whereby cancer cells hijack an anti-microbial activity of the immune system to establish metastasis in the lung. She holds workshops on Basic and Advanced use of Adobe Illustrator for scientific communication, striving to share with other scientists the skills she has learned to create clear and aesthetically compelling figures without getting lost in the intricacies of the software. |
 Carine Maurer, MD/PhD |
Dr. Carine Maurer is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology, Division of Movement Disorders at the Renaissance School of Medicine. Her research interests include the pathophysiology underlying the non-motor aspects of movement disorders, and the pathophysiology of functional movement disorders. |
 Chioma Okeoma, PhD |
Dr. Chioma Okeoma is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Renaissance School of Medicine. Her laboratory’s focus is to elucidate the mechanisms by which host factors expressed in host cells or packaged into extracellular vesicles regulate HIV pathogenesis or facilitate disease manifestation, as in cancer. |
 Rashmi Rai, PhD |
Rashmi Rai has a PhD in English from Northwestern University. She currently teaches writing at Stony Brook University, with courses ranging from literary analysis for freshmen students to academic writing for graduate scientists and engineers. At the Alan Alda Center, she also leads a monthlong workshop for science graduate students interested in writing for a general audience. |
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Nicole Sampson, PhD |
Prof. Sampson joined the faculty at Stony Brook University in 1993 and is currently Professor of Chemistry. She is the co-Director of the Chemical Biology Graduate Training Program and a founding member of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, as well as a member of graduate programs in Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Biochemistry & Structural Biology. She earned her B.S. degree in chemistry at Harvey Mudd College in 1985, her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1990, and then she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Prof. Sampson’s honors and awards include the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry, both from the American Chemical Society, the Research Foundation of SUNY Research and Scholarship Award, Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. |
Frances Santiago-Schwarz, PhD |
Dr. Santiago-Schwarz is Professor at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. At the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Dr. Frances Santiago-Schwarz’ research is concerned with control of monocyte and DC development in normal and abnormal physiology and developing new therapeutic agents for autoimmune diseases.
Throughout her career as an educator and biomedical scientist, Dr. Santiago-Schwarz has been actively engaged in the mentoring and direct training of research/physician scientists at distinct career stages and enhancing educational experiences/opportunities for underrepresented groups. In the workplace, she is committed to addressing multiple aspects of diversity and inclusion through groups such as the Feinstein Diversity Council, the Advancing Women in Medicine and Science group, the LIJ Medical Staff Society Women in Medicine mentorship program and, educational pipeline/outreach programs. |
 Jessica Seeliger, PhD |
Dr. Jessica Seeliger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at Stony Brook University. She has been studying pathogenic mycobacteria for over a decade, but before that changed scientific fields every time she changed labs (covering nanoscience, protein electron transfer, and protein folding, among others). She loves running her own lab, advocating for scientists inside and outside academia, trying to survive weekends with her toddler and baby, and playing chamber music in the vanishingly small amount of remaining time. |
 Temis G. Taylor, PhD |
Dr. Temis G. Taylor is a Message Design Instructor and Science Communication Researcher at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. As the Center’s lead on Climate Change Communication, she is an advocate for the development of communication skills as a pathway to reduce polarization and improve trust among scientists, the public, and policy makers. She is passionate about helping scientists engage with stakeholders, decision makers, and colleagues by more effectively communicating their work across the broad range of knowledge, experience, worldviews, and values that people hold. Dr. Taylor’s research addresses questions of sustainability, resilience, social complexity, and innovation within the context of natural resource and ecological limitations. Her work focuses on public discourse, perceptions of risk, and energy resources and transitions. |
 Jennie Williams, PhD |
Dr. Jennie Williams is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family, Population & Preventative Medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine. Her research currently addresses the underlying genetic/regulatory causes associated with cancer racial health disparity; a major health concern in this nation. As such, Dr. Williams’ group is assessing the dysregulation of miRNAs (which represent emerging major regulators of gene expression) and aberrant DNA methylation as factors influencing racial health disparity in the incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer. She has also been involved with the Stony Brook Diversity Plan Graduate and Professional Students and Postdocs Working Group. |
