2026 Honorees

Ramsey Abdallah ’09

Assistant Vice President of Operations at Northwell Health

BS Biology

Eric M. Ascher ’11, DO

Assistant Director of Special Projects in Ambulatory Operations at Northwell Health; Attending Physician in Family Medicine at Northwell Health

BS Biology

Muath Bishawi ’08, MPH ’10, MD ’14, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at Emory/Georgia Tech

BS Biochemistry; MPH Public Health; MD Medicine

Sara Cerrone ’08, MD ’12

Chief of Gastroenterology at Northwell Health — Peconic Bay Medical Center

BS Biology; MD Medicine

Ndome Yvonne Essoka ’12, Esq., MPH

Human Rights Attorney at the New York City Commission on Human Rights

BS Health Science

Mitchell Fourman ’08, MD ’14

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Montefiore Einstein; Director of Spine QA/QI and Education, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Montefiore Einstein

BA History//Political Science; MD Medicine

Kerisa Harriott DMD, MS ’17

Orthodontist and Owner of RenewAll Orthodontics

MS Oral Biology

Aditi Kanth, MD ’14

Pediatric Craniofacial Surgeon at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

MD Medicine

Imraan Khan ’12, ’18, MPH, BSN, RN-BC

Manager of Patient Care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center

BS Biology, Minor in Political Science; BS in Nursing

Yan Leyfman ’11, MD

Co-Founder and Executive Director at MedNews Week; Hematology-Oncology Fellow at New York Presbyterian Hospital

BS Biology with Research Honors; Minor Chemistry

Michael Mayrsohn, DPT ’12

Chief Executive Officer of Metro Physical and Aquatic Therapy

DPT Physical Therapy

Melissa H. Molina-Trinidad ’09

Program Manager in Education Strategic Initiatives at NYU Langone Health’s Department of Surgery

BS Health Science

Patricia Ng ’08, MD ’12

Clinical Associate Professor and Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Stony Brook Medicine

BS Biology; MD Medicine

Melvin Parasram ’10, MS ’11, DO

Neurointensivist at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital; Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine

BS Chemistry, MS Chemistry

Nickolas Srica ’14, MD

Emergency Medicine Faculty Physician at Yale School of Medicine; Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine; Assistant Residency Program Director and Associate Clerkship Director at Yale School of Medicine

BS Health Science

Najib Aminy ’11

Reporter and Producer at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting

BA Journalism//Political Science

Caroline Burke, MA ’19

Director of Network Impact at NPR

MA English

Matt Hammer ’11

Lead Meteorologist at News 12 Long Island

BA Journalism

David-Georges Renaud ’09

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Nativroots Collective

BA French Language and Literature

Changhong Cao, MS ’10

Canada Research Chair and Assistant Professor at McGill University

MS Mechanical Engineering

Diego Cardeñosa, PhD ’20

Assistant Professor at Florida International University (FIU)

PhD Marine and Atmospheric Science

Shushanna Cherian-Brutus ’13, MS ’14

Senior Product Leader of the Electrical Power Conversion & Controls Business at GE Aerospace

BE Mechanical Engineering; MS Mechanical Engineering

Morgan DiCarlo ’16, PhD

Senior Water Engineer at Arcadis

BE Civil Engineering

Yannick Rigg ’08, MS ’11

Co-founder of VIZOR

BS Chemistry; MS Marine and Atmospheric Science

Kayla Arias ’09

Senior Product Manager at Google

BA Political Science//Sociology; Minor in Digital Arts

Chaudhry Raza Hassan, PhD ’20

Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of IAMBIC

PhD Biomedical Engineering

Christina Hagedorn ’09, PhD

Associate Professor of Linguistics at CUNY College of Staten Island; The Graduate Center; Director of the College of Staten Island Motor Speech Laboratory

BA Italian Studies//Linguistics

John Melandro MA ’22

Fifth-Grade Teacher at Tangier Smith Elementary School

MA Liberal Studies

Rob O’Flaherty ’15

Founder of Future Leaders STEM Lab; Assistant Principal of Instruction at Mastery Schools of Camden

BA Earth and Space Sciences

Gregory Companion ’08

Senior Associate Director of EMS Clinical Operations, Education and Communications at Stony Brook Police Office of Emergency Management

BA Sociology and History

Jessica Oliveira-Haddad ’13, LCSW

Executive Vice President of Unaccompanied Children Transitional Foster Care at Cayuga Centers

BA Sociology

Pamela Pfeil ’08

Associate Director of Military and Veteran Student Services at Stony Brook University; Platoon Sergeant of the 42nd Infantry Division Band in the U.S. Army

BA History

Kelly (Denimarck) Ryan ’10

U.S. Navy, LCDR, Maritime Space Officer

BS Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Ivana Stolnik-Lourie ’16

Founder and President at The Sanguinity Foundation

BA Journalism

Stephanie (Hayman) Giunta ’12, MBA ’18

Marketing Director at Acertitude

BS Business Management; MBA Marketing

Katerina Miras ’13

Vice President of Marketing at Avive Solutions

BA Art History and Criticism

Tyler E. Alvarez ’19, MBA ’20

Vice President and Senior Portfolio Advisor at Merrill Lynch

BS Business Management; MBA Finance

Kavi Packiam ’10

Managing Director at Layer 7 Capital

BA Economics

Sherbune Paul ’12, Esq.

Counsel at the Bailey Law Firm

BA Sociology

Taylor Burner ’13

CEO and Founder of Agency 3-2

BA Women’s and Gender Studies