Rate My Professor Sadia Abbasi

Sadia Abbasi, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General, Geriatric and Hospital Medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. She holds key leadership positions including Division Chief of Hospital Medicine, Section Chief of Hospital Medicine, Medical Director of the Hospital Medicine Service, and Associate Chief Medical Officer at Stony Brook University Hospital. Under her leadership, the Hospitalist Section has expanded to include approximately 85 academic general internists and geriatricians along with 45 advanced practice providers, delivering comprehensive inpatient care for patients admitted to the Medicine service. Hospitalists under her direction serve as attending physicians on the core internal medicine teaching service for medical students, residents, and geriatric fellows; cover the General Medicine Consult Service; provide co-management with specialists in orthopedics, neurology, leukemia and lymphoma transplant, and cardiology; manage the Hospital Observation Unit; and oversee a subacute rehabilitation unit at Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Abbasi emphasizes seamless care transitions through communication with outpatient colleagues and promotes the 4M’s of Geriatrics—Mobility, Safe Medication Management, Delirium Prevention and Management (Mentation), and What Matters most to patients—in collaboration with nursing leaders to advance the hospital as an Age-Friendly Health System.

Dr. Abbasi earned her medical degree from Rawalpindi Medical College and completed her training at Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Her contributions include outstanding leadership in expanding the Hospitalist Section’s clinical and academic programs. She served as a longitudinal scholar with the Reynolds Foundation in Geriatrics and was selected as the inaugural fellow for the American Hospital Association Next Generation Leadership Fellowship Program (2020-2021), as well as a John A. Hartford Foundation Scholar for the AHA Next Generation Leaders Fellowship in Promoting the Age-Friendly Health System. Key publications include 'Outcomes of a Resident-Led Early Hospital Discharge Intervention' (2019), 'A Process Approach to Decreasing Hospital Onset Clostridium difficile Infections' (2020), 'The transformation of hospital medicine to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic' (2020), 'An innovative model for geriatric fellowship training for hospitalists' (2025), and 'Towards Inpatient Discharge Summary Automation via Large Language Models: A Multidimensional Evaluation' (2025).