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| | Stony Brook University Hospital CEO Leaving to Head University of Colorado Hospital in Denver |
 | | STONY BROOK, NY, October 18, 2005—Bruce Schroffel, who launched Stony Brook University Hospital’s $300 million Major Modernization Plan, expanded the hospital’s services to residents of the East End, and presided over a period of unprecedented growth in programs and construction, is leaving his position as Director and CEO, he announced today. |
 | | Schroffel was named to head the hospital in February, 2001 and immediately began to transform Suffolk’s only tertiary hospital to meet the demands of an aging population by recruiting leading physicians in cancer, heart disease, and orthopedics. |
 | | Prior to joining Stony Brook, Schroffel was Senior Vice President/Chief Executive Officer of the San Francisco campus of the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF)/Stanford Health Care, where he was responsible for one of the largest university hospitals in the country and a community teaching hospital with 769 beds, a $500 million budget, and 4,000 employees. |
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