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  Professor Giarrusso received his Bachelors Degree as a physician assistant from Touro College in 1982. Since graduation, he has worked in emergency medicine at two of the largest Level 1 trauma centers on Long Island; North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, and Stony Brook University Medical Center.  He has helped to educate emergency medicine residents at both institutions and was a preceptor for physician assistant students rotating through emergency medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center. He currently works per diem in the Emergency Department at North Shore/LIJ health system at Huntington Hospital

After 14 years in clinical practice, he resigned his position from the emergency department at Stony Brook University Medical Center and joined our faculty as a clinical assistant professor. In August 2001, he received his Master’s Degree from the University of Nebraska in Physician Assistant Studies with a specialization in Emergency Medicine. In April of 2008 he was recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by the American Academy of Physician Assistants. 

Professor Giarrusso is responsible for the EKG and Pulmonary, Orthopedic/Rheumatology units of clinical medicine and the Genitourinary, Sexual and Reproductive Health course, as well as teaching in several other units. His primary clinical responsibility is the pediatric preceptorships and he also assists in Emergency Medicine, Surgery and Orthopedics. He is co-advisor to the PA program student society and Chair of the School of Health Technology and Management Curriculum Committee.

Professor Giarrusso has co-authored several publications in the Annals of Emergency Medicine and American Journal of Emergency Medicine, based on research completed during the time he worked in the Emergency Department at Stony Brook University Medical Center. In April, 2008 and 2010, he accompanied two second year students in an international fellowship to Guatemala as part of the Glens Falls Medical Mission Team.