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SBU Prof, Setauket Doc Awarded for Research on Lung Injuries to Troops

Anthony M. Szema will also be recognized as "super doc" in the New York Times.

Anthony M. Szema, a professor at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, Setauket doctor and an attending physician at Mather Hospital who studies lung injuries in soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been selected to receive the 2012 Albion O. Bernstein, MD Award from the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY).

The award is given to a physician, surgeon or scientist who has made a "recent and widely beneficial scientific discovery in medicine, surgery or the prevention of disease."

He will also be featured in the 2013 New York Super Doctors special section of The New York Times Magazine on May 19. 

Szema is recognized as the first researcher to identify new-onset asthma in previously healthy soldiers from Long Island who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He named the range of lung conditions affecting these soldiers “Iraq Afghanistan War Lung Injury".

The doc received his medical degree at Albany Medical College. He is a Clinical Adult and Pediatric Allergist/Immunologist and Pulmonologist and assistant professor of medicine and surgery at SBU and currently practices at Three Village Allergy & Asthma, PLLC in South Setauket.


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