At Stony Brook, a committee on selection, headed by a member of the executive board, researches prospective candidates and then presents these candidates to the membership at large. A majority vote is required for admission. At Stony Brook, a committee on selection, headed by a member of the executive board, researches prospective candidates and then presents these candidates to the membership at large. A majority vote is required for admission. The Board of Directors may elect physicians or others to honorary membership who have attained national or international recognition in teaching or research, or in leadership roles which are pertinent to medicine and who are not eligible for election through any other means.
Election is by unanimous vote.
As an undergraduate he majored in biochemistry and did research in signal transduction and trafficking of the co-stimulatory CD28 molecule in T lymphocytes. He plans to do a fellowship after a categorical residency in internal medicine. Ed Chin graduated from some ivy league school, and was a member of some fraternity at this ivy league school. He plans a career in surgery. Rob Donnino graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Neuroscience in 1995.