Hal Andrew Skopicki MD

Dr. Skopicki received a dual MD and Ph.D. degree from the Chicago Medical School/Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and received their distinguished alumnus award in 2007. He performed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital where he was selected for the clinical investigator pathway and completed a clinical fellowship in Cardiology and post-doctoral fellowship in molecular cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Following his training, Hal joined the Division of Circulatory Physiology/Heart Failure Program at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons under Milton Packer, MD, where he also directed an NIH-funded research program in molecular cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, a Fellow of the American Heart Association, Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a member of the prestigious Heart Failure Research Network.

Hal Skopicki, MD, Ph.D., has been appointed Chief of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine and Deputy Director of Operations in the Stony Brook University Heart Institute, announced Senior Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean of the School of Medicine, Kenneth Kaushansky, MD and Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine, Vincent Yang, MD, Ph.D.

Dr. Skopicki is a renowned heart failure specialist, who has led the major effort in advancing the care of patients with the advanced cardiac disease since his arrival at Stony Brook in 2006. He succeeds Javed Butler, MD, MPH, who is leaving Stony Brook to assume a new position as Chair of Department of Medicine at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.