130 New Doctors Graduate from Stony Brook School of Medicine

Stony Brook University's School of Medicine on Thursday sent 130 new doctors into the health care community at its annual graduation ceremony.

The doctors took the Hippocratic Oath, representing the 39-year-old School of Medicine's largest class to date.

They began their journey originally selected from 3,853 School of Medicine applicants. Thirteen of them will complete residencies at Stony Brook while 20 other graduates will complete residencies at other Long Island hospitals.

Keynote speaker Dr. Michelle M. Le Beau, director of the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, told the graduates: “Your generation will reap the benefits of this new era of genomic and ‘personalized’ medicine, and as physicians you should embrace new technologies in your field, be ambitious and seize opportunities. Today we turn to you to provide future answers in medicine with our goal always to improve the lives of others and relieve suffering.”