Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Clinical Preventive Medicine

The Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program  

(Medical Director: John Meyer, MD, MPH)

• This program focuses attention on workers engaged in high risk occupations, the underserved and those populations living in close proximity to environmentally hazardous areas.  Occupational and Environmental Medicine is a rapidly growing medical field that seeks to study how occupation and environment affects one's health with an emphasis on prevention.  
  •  The Long Island Occupational and Environmental Health Center (Medical Director:  Linda Cocchiarella, MD, MSc)
    • LIOEHC was established through a contract from the New York State Department of Health. The funding helps to support clinical occupational and environmental services, and educational outreach regarding occupational hazards and prevention education to underserved workers, employers, and communities.
  • Stony Brook University Hospital Employee Health Service (Associate Director: Ann Tu, MD,MPH)
    • The Department of Preventive Medicine is responsible for the screening and monitoring of all hospital employees.

The Wellness/Chronic Illness Program  

(Medical Director: Raja Jaber, MD)

• This program is dedicated to providing individual consultations that exemplify integrative, comprehensive and patient-centered medicine across the life cycle.  The program includes state of the art conventional family medicine, combined with mind/body, botanical, and nutritional medicine to create a whole person approach to health and illness.

The Travel Medicine and Adult Vaccination Program

(Medical Director: John Shanley, MD, MPH)

• The Travel Medicine program offers practical, up to date, and expert information to minimize health risks from international travel.  Our senior infectious disease specialist is available for medical consultation both pre and post travel. The Adult Vaccination Program provides consultations and vaccinations for primary illness prevention.  Our physicians offer comprehensive health information based on the most current recommendations from authoritative sources, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for adult immunizations (e.g. shingles, tetanus, pneumonia, hepatitis A & B).

Service providers

The Division has an interdisciplinary group of health care providers: physicians and a nurse practitioner.  There are four full-time and three part-time physicians board certified in Family Medicine, Infectious Disease, Preventive Medicine and Occupational & Environmental Medicine.  The support staff consists of 1 full time registered nurse, two patient care technicians, several clerical support staff and a practice manager.

Click the links below to see the provider profiles in the department: