Brooke Ellison, Associate Professor and Medical Ethics Expert, Dies at 45.
Brooke Ellison, associate professor in Stony Brook University’s School of Health Professions, health policy and medical ethics expert, leader in stem cell research and passionate advocate for the disabled, died February 4 at the age of 45.
Ellison’s inspirational story was known to many at Stony Brook and beyond. Paralyzed from the neck down at age 11 after being hit by a car while trying to cross a busy road on her first day of junior high school, Ellison went on to graduate with honors from Ward Melville High School in Setauket, NY and earn admission to Harvard University, where she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of science in cognitive neuroscience. She later earned a master’s in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and received her PhD in sociology from Stony Brook in 2012, joining the university faculty that same year.
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