Dr. Anthony M Szema, MD has 18 years of medical experience and practices Clinical Adult and Pediatric Allergy & Immunology and Pulmonary Diseases. Dr. Szema is Clinical Assistant Professor of Occupational Medicine, Preventive Medicine, and Epidemiology at Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra University, 2014 to present. Dr. Szema is also Adjunct Professor, Department of Technology and Society, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Stony Brook University, 2015. He has fifteen years of experience treating patients with complex allergy/immunology issues.

Dr. Szema is the only quadruple board certified critical care, and adult and pediatric allergy/immunology and pulmonary and internal medicine doctor in the Northeast United States. 

 He received his medical degree at Albany Medical College, Albany, N.Y. in 1991 and did his residency at:

  • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (Internal Medicine)-– 1992
  • Hahnemannn University Hospital (Drexel University College of Medicine), Philadelphia PA, Resident in Internal Medicine 1992-4
  • Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (Pulmonary diseases) -- 1996
  • Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (Clinical Adult and Pediatric Allergy/Immunology) --1997
  • Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (Critical Care Medicine) --1997

Dr Szema is affiliated with

  • John T Mather Memorial Hospital
  • St Charles Hospital 

He is a member of numerous professional organizations including:

  • American College of Chest Physicians (FACP 2000)
  • American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (FACAAI 2000)
  • American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, Immunology (FAAAAI 2001)
  • American College of Physicians (FACP 2002)
  • American Thoracic Society (poster facilitator and abstract grader)
  • American Thoracic Society Environmental Policy Committee
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine
  • Association of Certified Allergists
  • New York Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Society
  • Long Island Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Society
  • New York State Thoracic Society
  • Chinese American Medical Society
  • Clinical Immunology Society
  • Sigma XiAlpha Pi Mu National Industrial Engineering Honor Society 

Dr Szema has worked as:

  • Chief, Allergy Section at Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, NY from 1998-2015
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine from 1997-2015, also working during that time as Fellowship Program Director in Clinical Adult and Pediatric Allergy/Immunology and Director of the Allergy and Asthma Center
  • Faculty, The Stony Brook Medicine SUNY at Stony Brook Internal Medicine Residency Program at John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, Port Jefferson, NY, from 2015-Present
  • Allergy/Immunology Consultant to the World Trade Center Monitoring Program, Stony Brook University, from 2015-Present