Each of the SUNY academic medical centers is comprised of multiple schools for medical and allied health professions:
The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences aligns its medical education, research and clinical care with its healthcare partners, including Buffalo General Medical Center, the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital, the Gates Vascular Institute, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and UBMD Physicians' Group practices. The Jacobs school employs over 950 clinical, research, and teaching faculty serving over 700 medical students, 25 MD/PhD students, 800 residents and fellows, 130 PhD students, 70 master's-degree students and 1,000 undergraduate students.
The Jacobs School location in downtown Buffalo builds on University at Buffalo's many successful research investments in biomedicine, including UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the Institute for Healthcare Informatics, and the Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics.
Located in Brooklyn, NY, Downstate Heath Sciences University has achieved remarkable success in its mission as a medical university since its founding in 1860. From its start as a single school of medicine, it has grown to encompass five colleges and schools, a teaching hospital, and a growing research and biotechnology complex with a rich history of commitment to educational access, community service, and student and faculty diversity.
At Downstate, more than 2,100 students are educated in five colleges—Medicine, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, Nursing, and Public Health with almost 1,000 residents trained in 51 accredited programs at 29 affiliated hospitals. Downstate is also a leader in medical research, receiving $50 million to fund projects in learning and memory mechanisms; pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and cardiomyopathy; HIV/AIDS; immunology; pain and addiction; neurology; ophthalmology; and optical tomography imaging technology.
Founded in 1971 and located in New York City, the State University of New York College of Optometry is a leader in education, research, and patient care, offering the Doctor of Optometry degree as well as MS and PhD degrees in Vision Science to over 450 medical students and residents annually. The College is regionally accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Its four-year professional degree program and residency programs are accredited by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education of the American Optometric Association.
The University Eye Center, the patient-care facility of the College of Optometry, is one of the largest eye-and-vision care clinics in the country, examining approximately 60,000 patients annually with roughly 240,000 patient encounters between the University Eye Center, satellite clinics, and educational affiliates.
On the eastern end of Long Island, Stony Brook University Medicine integrates and elevates all of Stony Brook University's health-related initiatives: education, research, and patient care.
Stony Brook's Health Sciences schools in Medicine, Dental, Health Professions, Nursing, and Social Welfare, and a program in Public Health are training the next generation of healthcare providers by enrolling over 1,000 medical students, residents and fellows. Additionally, Stony Brook is home to more than 100 research labs and over 400 active clinical research trials.
Located in Syracuse, SUNY Upstate Medical University offers both high quality health care and educational opportunities to Central New York's 1.8 million citizens—and beyond. At Upstate, more than 1,500 students are educated in four colleges—Medicine, Graduate Studies, Health Professions, and Nursing—as well as on the Binghamton Campus. 500 graduate physicians are also hosted in residency and fellowship training programs, along with practitioners who receive continuing education.
The fast-growing research enterprise at Upstate is advanced by faculty who are investigating more than 600 funded research projects.