Maria A. Basile, MD Elected Vice Speaker of the Medical Society of the State of New York

For Immediate Release 
May 23, 2022 

Maria A. Basile, MD Elected Vice Speaker
of the Medical Society of the State of New York

MSSNY is the State’s Primary Professional Organization for Physicians

Westbury, NY—May 23, 2022— Maria A. Basile, MD was elected Vice Speaker of the Medical Society of the State of New York on May 21.  Dr. Basile is President and CEO of PQL Communications Inc, a Health Affairs consultancy firm on Long Island, founded during the pandemic to inspire physicians to communicate with authenticity so that they can lead with effectiveness and love.  Prior to starting this company, Dr Basile was Chief Medical Officer at US Family Health Plan-St. Vincent’s (a TRICARE Prime Option) in New York City.  She served as the senior clinical leader of this 13,000 member health plan from July 2019-April 2021, overseeing and guiding the Plan’s Quality Management Department, providing medical guidance to the restructuring of the Population Health Division through the development of evidence-based Care Management models, and supervising the transformation of two downstate New York primary care practices to adopt telemedicine platforms and convert to electronic medical records at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Basile is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family, Community, and Population Medicine, and will be joining the full-time faculty at Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine in July as the Deputy Division Head of the Division of Medicine in Society and the Associate Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, where she teaches medical school and graduate-level courses in Literature and Medicine.  A physician-poet, she is author of Minimally Invasive: poems from a life in surgery, (2010) and New, Not New: 15 Things I’d Like to Know When I See You After Quarantine (2020). Her poems and articles have been published in Journal of the American Medical Association, Touch: The Journal of Healing, and The Pharos.  She is also the author of Seven Hallmarks for Outstanding Physician Leaders (2022).

From 2012-2019, Dr. Basile served as Assistant Vice President, Medical Affairs at Mather Hospital – Northwell Health, where her responsibilities included professional credentialing, physician engagement, medical staff quality improvement, and leadership development.

Prior to transitioning to Hospital Administration, Dr. Basile was a Colorectal Surgeon in private practice. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians, and is Board Certified in Health Care Quality Assurance, with specialty certification as a Physician Advisor. Dr. Basile has lectured nationally on physician wellness and resilience, medical ethics, and practice transformation.

A cum laude graduate of Georgetown University, Dr. Basile earned her Medical Degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She completed a General Surgery residency at Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Philadelphia and a Colon and Rectal Surgery residency at St Vincent’s Medical Center in Erie, PA.  She is a graduate of the United Hospital Fund/Greater NY Hospital Association’s Clinical Quality Fellowship Program and received a Master’s in Business Administration from Adelphi University in Garden City, NY.

An active member of MSSNY, Dr. Basile currently serves as the Commissioner of Communications and previously served as Suffolk County Councilor. Through her leadership efforts at the local and statewide levels, she has been appointed Vice Chair of the MSSNY Committee on Physician Wellness and Resilience, Co-chair of the MSSNY Committee on Women, and a Vice Chair of the MSSNY Committee on Quality. She is a Past President of the Suffolk County Medical Society.

Dr. Basile lives in East Setauket, NY.

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Founded in 1807, the Medical Society of the State of New York is the state’s principal non-profit professional organization for physicians, residents and medical students of all specialties. Its mission is to represent the interests of patients and physicians to assure quality healthcare services for all. 

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