Allison McLarty
General Ting Feng Cheng Endowed Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Surgery, Stony Brook University Hospital
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Allison McLarty graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in chemistry before attending medical school and completing general surgery training at Columbia University. She subsequently completed a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the Mayo Clinic and joined the faculty of surgery at Stony Brook University Hospital in 1997.
At SBUH, McLarty is a clinical professor of surgery and the General Ting Feng Cheng Endowed Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery, specializing in adult cardiac and thoracic surgery. She served as associate program director for general surgery for 10 years and was chief of thoracic surgery at the Northport VA Medical Center for many years before becoming its chair of surgery in 2023.
McLarty directs mechanical circulatory support at Stony Brook Medicine. She has served as surgical director of the left ventricular assist device program since its first patient was implanted in 2010, and also leads the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program, which provides short-term circulatory support for critically ill patients. She previously headed the Lung Cancer Center, a multidisciplinary center that evaluates and treats patients with lung and thoracic malignancies.
Her clinical and research interests center on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, left ventricular assist devices and aortic disease. McLarty has been recognized as Brookhaven Health Person of the Year, a recipient of the Town of Brookhaven’s Women’s Recognition Award for medicine, a Castle Connolly Top Doctor and a Castle Connolly Exceptional Woman in Medicine. She is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
