University & National Advisors

Stony Brook University Advisors

Richard  N. Fine, MD
Dean, School of Medicine

Eric W. Kaler, PhD
Provost and Senior VP for Academic Affairs
Vice President for Brookhaven Affairs

Shirley Strum Kenny, PhD
President emeritus, Stony Brook University

Manuel London
Director, Center for Human Resource Management

Lawrence Martin, PhD
Dean, Graduate School

Linda Merians
Chief of Staff, Office of the President

Howard Schneider
Dean, School of Journalism

Martin Schoonen, PhD
Interim Dean, Southampton Campus

Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., MD
President, Stony Brook University

James V. Staros, PhD
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Steven L. Strongwater, MD
CEO, Stony Brook Medical Center

National Advisors

Sidney Callahan
Author and Psychologist

Steven T. DeKosky, MD
James Carroll Flippin Professor of Medical Science, Vice President, and Dean
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Joseph J. Fins, MD
Chief, Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College

Gregory L. Fricchione, MD
Director, Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Susannah Heschel
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College

Jerome P. Kassirer, MD
Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

Eric Kodish, MD
Chairman, Department of Bioethics, The Cleveland Clinic

Samuel H. Miller
Co-Chairman of the Board and Treasurer, Forest City Enterprises, Inc.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr
University Professor of Islamic Studies, The George Washington University

Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD
John Carroll Professor Emeritus , Georgetown University Medical Center

Robert Pollack
Professor of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

Christina M. Puchalski, MD
Executive Director, The George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health

Warren T. Reich
Distinguished Research Professor of Religion and Ethics, Georgetown University

David Simpson
CEO, Hospice of the Western Reserve

Lynn G. Underwood
Professor of Biomedical Humanities, Hiram College

George E. Vaillant, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School