Stony Brook Medicine Top Doctors 2024

A total of 94 Stony Brook Medicine physicians have been named “Top Doctors” on Castle Connolly Top Doctors 2024 list. The list includes doctors from Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook Children's Hospital, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital, across 46 different specialties. The “Top Doctors” list represents the top 7% of physicians in the US, and the top 7% of New York area physicians.

The annual “Top Doctors” list for the New York metro area is based on peer-reviewed surveys from Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a New York-based research and information company. Each year, Castle Connolly surveys tens of thousands of practicing physicians across the US to ensure its list reflects the latest in quality care on both the national and regional levels. The company evaluates several criteria when selecting Top Doctors, including professional qualifications, education, hospital and faculty appointments, research leadership, professional reputation and disciplinary history. Through Castle Connolly’s research process, only 66,000 board-certified physicians out of 985,000 board-certified practicing doctors in the United States (7 percent) have been awarded Top Doctor status.