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After nearly 11 years as Dean of Stony Brook University’s Renaissance School of Medicine and Senior Vice President of Health Sciences, Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky will be retiring from the university at the end of the academic year.
According to a statement to faculty and staff on Jan. 4 from President Maurie McInnis, Kaushansky will exit his role as dean on Jan. 31 and remain senior vice president until the end of the spring semester. Kaushansky joined Stony Brook in June 2010, and has been in charge of overseeing both medical schools and the university hospital system that is spread throughout Suffolk County.
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Melissa McMullen, 39, of Islandia, faces a DWI charge after police said she drove her car into a pond in Ronkonkoma on Thursday. (Shutterstock)
RONKONKOMA, NY A woman who drove her car into a pond in Ronkonkoma on Thursday night was charged with DWI, Suffolk police said.
Melissa McMullen, 39, of Islandia, drove a 2009 Mercury Mountaineer SUV into a pond at Colony Park Apartments, at 500 Peconic St., at around 7:50 p.m., police said.
The SUV was taking on water when Emergency Service officers Danny Colondona, Carmine Pellegrino, and Chris Oddo arrived, police said. The officers broke a window, attached a chain so the vehicle wouldn t go further into the water and pulled the vehicle out of the pond with McMullen in it, police said. She was evaluated at Stony Brook University Hospital.
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Police said the arrested the driver, Mark A. Corrado Jr., 28, of West Babylon. (Shutterstock)
AMAGANSETT, NY A mother pushing her two children in a stroller in Amagansett Wednesday morning was struck by a driver who sped away, police said.
The mother was identified as Yuris Murillo Cruz, 36, of Amagansett. Her children, ages 1 and 4, were airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital. Police said their injuries are not considered life-threatening.
Police said the driver, Mark A. Corrado Jr., 28, of West Babylon, was arrested. He was driving a 1997 Dodge pickup truck at 11:42 a.m. when he crashed into Cruz on the eastbound shoulder of the Montauk Highway east of the Old Montauk Highway.
SUFFOLK COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) New Yorkers who thought they had made an appointment for a COVID vaccine at Stony Brook University Hospital were shocked to learn their appointments had been suddenly canceled, apparently do to a mistakenly published link.
The general counsel for the Office of Information Technology Services said the unauthorized scheduling link was published this week.
The governor s office said it was a legitimate, internal link that was erroneously shared to the public and put out on social media, so people who had the link had unfair advantage that others didn t.
The link not only affected residents on Long Island, but across New York State.
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