Erika Newton, M.D.

Dr. Newton joined the Stony Brook Emergency Medicine faculty in 2003 following her return to the U.S. from Auckland, New Zealand, where she had been working since sailing there on a 34-foot boat with her husband in 2001. She has held faculty appointments at several medical schools including Harvard and Tufts. She currently co-chairs the Institutional Ethics Committee, runs the monthly departmental journal club, and is pursuing an MPH degree. Her academic interests include practice variation in medicine, medical decision making, and medical ethics.