Health Equity News

Priyanka Kadam
Stony Brook Medical Student Develops App to Close a Critical Training Gap
For generations of medical students, the images they study have not always reflected the patients they will treat.
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Stony Brook Medicine Receives Grant to Enhance Parkinson’s Care and Support Services
Stony Brook Medicine’s Parkinson’s Centers, which include the Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center at Stony Brook University Hospital (SBUH) and the Center of Parkinson’s Disease at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital (SBSH)....
SBU President Andrea Goldsmith speaks at the panel discussion on Advocating Toward Leadership
Women in Medicine and Science Research Day Highlights Achievements and Opportunities
With the mission of strengthening the bonds among female faculty, students and researchers, the 20th annual Women in Medicine & Science (WIMS) Research Day offered opportunities for community-building, networking, mentoring and collaboration.
Older couple using CatchU is an app
NeurologyResearcher Wins National NIH Award for App That Predicts Fall Risk
An app easily used off a smartphone that quantitatively measures someone’s risk of falling is being recognized by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Aging (NIA) as a leading new technology to tackle one of the nation’s largest healthcare challenges –
Briana Last
Who Decides How AI Is Used in Mental Healthcare? A Stony Brook Psychologist Weighs In
As the use of artificial intelligence tools in healthcare increases at a dramatic rate, the conversation about usage has focused on efficiency and innovation.
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Finance & Administration Alliance for Culture, Diversity and Inclusion Builds Bridges with Allyship Series
Stony Brook University’s Finance & Administration Alliance for Culture, Diversity and Inclusion hosted the first session of the year of its “Building Bridges Allyship Series” on January 15, addressing digital accessibility and disability inclusion in advance of new federal requirements taking effect this spring.