Stony Brook Medicine Cardiothoracic Surgeon Selected for a National Fellowship

Dr. Allison J. McLarty named to the 2026-27 ELAM Program

STONY BROOK, NY, May 6, 2026 - Allison J. McLarty, MD, General Ting Feng Cheng Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery and Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery in the Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) at Stony Brook University, has been named a 2026-27 Fellow of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program. Dr. McLarty will begin her fellowship in June.

Hosted by Drexel University College of Medicine, ELAM is a prestigious national fellowship and the only longitudinal program in North America dedicated to preparing senior faculty for leadership roles across schools of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy.

ELAM welcomes Dr. McLarty among the 99 ELAM Fellows and 45 Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH) Fellows selected to its Class of 2026-27. For more than 30 years, the program has graduated nearly 1,800 fellows, many of whom now serve in leadership roles at more than 300 academic health centers worldwide. ELAM continues the leadership legacy established by the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the nation's first degree-granting women's medical school and a predecessor institution of Drexel.

"Dr. McLarty is an exemplary surgeon, educator and scholar who has co-led Stony Brook Medicine's Heart and Vascular Institute. The selection of Dr. McLarty as the third consecutive ELAM Fellow from the Renaissance School of Medicine reflects her individual accomplishments and the high quality of our faculty," said Peter Igarashi, MD, Knapp Dean of the RSOM. "Dr. McLarty has already held important positions at the Northport VA Medical Center and Stony Brook Medicine, and the leadership training that she receives through the ELAM program will equip her to make even more impactful contributions. I am grateful for Dr. McLarty's commitment to Stony Brook, and I am absolutely delighted that she has received this national recognition."

The program includes community-building exercises, online coursework and the completion of an Institutional Action Project (IAP), through which each fellow addresses a strategic need or priority identified by their home institution.

Dr. McLarty is the fifth ELAM Fellow selected from Stony Brook Medicine, joining Latha Chandran, MD, MPH (2006), Meenakashi Singh, MD (2012), Tara Huston, MD, FACS (2024) and Susan Lane, MD, MACP (2025).

"It is a privilege to have been nominated for the ELAM Fellowship, and I am delighted to have been accepted for the 2026-2027 year," said Dr. McLarty. "I look forward to leveraging the unique collaboration and skill sets gained to the benefit of Stony Brook and our Heart and Vascular Institute."

The fellowship will conclude with the Leaders Forum, where fellows present their IAPs, on April 14, 2027, followed by graduation on April 15.