Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics

09/14/2023

Please join the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics for Grand Rounds by Dr. Jeffrey Trilling titled "The Circle of Change- Skillful conversations for Impasse Resolution/A reading with commentary". The Grand Rounds will be held via Zoom on Thursday, September 28, 2023 from 4:30pm- 6:00pm EST. Learn more and RSVP at

The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University

09/07/2023

Please join the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics for Grand Rounds by Dr. Salvatore Mangione titled "The Five Books that Changed Medicine". The Grand Rounds will be held via Zoom on Thursday, September 21, 2023 from 4:30pm- 6:00pm EST. Learn more and RSVP at

The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University

04/25/2023

Please join us for a Special Topics event by Maria Basile, MD, MBA titled "Medical Economics: How Greed Corrupts US Health Care" on Tuesday, May 16, 2023 from 3:30pm- 5:00pm in the HSC, Level 3, FPPM Conference rooms 066 & 067.

For more information and to RSVP, please visit https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/bioethics/events/ #2023

04/25/2023

Please join us for a Grand Rounds by Carmen Bugan, PhD titled "For the Time Being"; Poetic Expressions of Illness and the Changed Sense of Time on Thursday, May 11, 2023 from 4:30pm- 6:00pm via Zoom.

For more information and to RSVP, please visit https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/bioethics/events/ #2023

04/12/2022

Please join us for a Grand Rounds by Clare Whitney, PhD, MBE, RN titled Mediation & Ethical Case Resolution on Thursday, April 28, 2022 from 4:30pm- 6:00pm.

For more information and to RSVP, please visit

The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University

03/19/2020

03/19/2020

Check out the newly updated Professional Identity Formation website to learn more about PIF in the medical school curriculum.

QUICK LINKS Current Professional Identity Formation (2017) Curriculum at Stony Brook School of Medicine Over All Phases Alumni Contact Us

03/19/2020

Please note that the following Grand Rounds have been cancelled:

"Tending the caring heart within: Compassion Training in Medicine" presented by Jane Chun, PhD
RESCHEDULED for Thursday, May 14, 2020 4:30pm- 6:00pm

"Perpetrators, Resisters, and Victims: Medical Eponyms from the N**i Era" presented by Lester Paldy
We hope to reschedule this Grand Rounds in the Fall 2020 semester.

Please visit https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/bioethics/events/ #2020 for updates on our upcoming Grand Rounds.

The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University

03/09/2020

Thank you Alfred Carter Jr. for your Grand Rounds presentation "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Continuing the Legacy". We enjoyed hearing your story.

02/26/2020

Please join The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics for our upcoming Grand Rounds:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: Continuing the Legacy
Alfred Carter Jr., Grandson of Henrietta Lacks
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 4:30pm- 6:00pm

Tending the caring heart within: Compassion training in medicine
Jane M. Chun, PhD
Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:30pm- 6:00pm

Perpetrators, Resisters, and Victims: Medical Eponyms from the N**i Era
Lester Paldy
Thursday, March 26, 2020 4:30pm- 5:30pm

The Neuroscience and Neuroaesthetics of Creativity and the Artistic Mind
Suzanne Nalbantian, PhD / Vincent de Luise, MD
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 4:30pm- 6:00pm

For additional information and to RSVP, visit

The Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University

02/07/2020

The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society awarded its Professionalism Award for 2019 to the Renaissance School of Medicine.

STONY BROOK, NY, February 5, 2020 – The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society has awarded the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University with its Professionalism Award for 2019. The award highlights best practices in medical professionalism education and recognizes the School for i...

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