Ten Endowed Faculty to Be Honored at Investiture Ceremony November 9

Ten endowed Stony Brook University faculty members will be formally installed on Monday, November 9, at a ceremony celebrating teaching and research excellence at Stony Brook.

The ceremony will take place at 5:30 pm at the Charles B. Wang Center Theatre. The signature annual event also pays tribute to the visionary donors whose generosity supports these eminent scholars and enables Stony Brook to continually advance its rich, groundbreaking intellectual community.

The investiture ceremony will honor the following faculty members:

Raymond C. Bergan, MD
Kavita and Lalit Bahl Endowed Cancer Center Director

Melissa Finucane, PhD
Knapp Endowed Infinity Chair

Bettina Fries, MD, FIDSA, FACP
Diana Briann Lawson Endowed Professor

David S. Glass, PhD
Arthur P. Grollman Endowed Assistant Professor of Physical and Quantitative Biology

Todd Griffin, MD, MBA
Sanguinity Foundation Endowed Chair in Women's Health

Fedor Iskhakov, PhD
Endowed Chair for the Center for Applied Economics and Public Policy

Allison McLarty, MD, FACS
General Ting Feng Cheng Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Carolyn Milana, MD
Knapp Endowed Children's Hospital Physician in Chief

Syed Shah, MD
Distinguished Endowed Chair in Anesthesiology

Shao-Jun Tang, PhD
SPARC Endowed Professor of Anesthesiology

Stony Brook University President Andrea Goldsmith will provide an opening address, and the keynote address will be given by Anissa Abi-Dargham, MD, Lourie Endowed Chair in Psychiatry. A nationally recognized leader in neuropsychiatry, Abi-Dargham has advanced the use of multimodal imaging to better understand schizophrenia and addiction.

Endowed professorships and chairs are among the highest honors a university can bestow, recognizing exceptional academic leadership and visionary research achievements. These endowments are essential to Stony Brook's mission, providing the resources needed to recruit, retain and support world-class faculty across education, research, healthcare and service.

The event is open to the university community. Register for the ceremony online by November 2. A reception will immediately follow the ceremony.

Learn more at SB Matters.