She is the Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery and Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and a member of the research and teaching faculty at Stony Brook’s Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics. Included among the courses Dr. Basile teaches to medical students are Becoming a better doctor through poetry, and What the Doctor Said: Art, Literature, and Medicine. She is co-director of Astonished Harvest, a multi-disciplinary group of poets interested in the interface between poetry and medicine.