Difference between revisions of "Maffetone, Michael"

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Born in Brooklyn, Maffetone moved with his family to St. Albans before settling in Bethpage in the early 1960s. Graduated Bethpage High School in 1967, then went to Long Island University's C. W. Post Campus, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in medical technology and a master of science degree in immunology. He obtained a doctorate of arts degree from Catholic University in Washington D. C., and embarked on a career in clinical laboratory science before becoming a hospital administrator. He was director of the clinical chemistry lab at St. Joseph's Hospital in Baltimore from about 1976 to 1984. Then he served 10 years at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago in several positions, finally he served as senior associate vice president and director of the Women's and Children's Hospital at the center. He then moved on to be director and chief executive of Stony Brook University Hospital from 1994 until he stepped down in 2000 because of illness. During his leadership the hospital made it onto a list of the nations 15 best major teaching hospitals in the country, and he planned the hospital's new ambulatory surgery center. He is also credited with bringing the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund Inc. to the University. He died in January 2003 at the age of 52. Michael is survived by his wife, Dawn, children: Elizabeth, Emily, and Anthony, parents Dan and Clara Maffetone of Bethpage, and two brothers Dan and Stephen. (Information from Newsday, 1/21/03)