Stuart Chale, MD

I have been working in the Stony Brook Emergency Department since 1989 making me number 2 in the longevity list here in the ER.  I discovered emergency medicine during my rotations while doing my Internal Medicine residency here at Stony Brook and have never looked back. The great variety of patients and variability of presentations keeps it engaging. As a lifelong  Long Islander and a Suffolk county resident since the late 80’s I am happy to treat patients close to home.  
As an ER physician we treat any conditions but I do have an interest in wound management and I was happy to participate in some of the first trials in the US using cyanoacrylate laceration repair.

• Evaluation of a liquid dressing for minor nonbleeding abrasions and class I and II skin tears in the emergency department.
  
  Singer AJ | Chale S | Taylor M | Domingo A | Ghazipura S | Khorasonchi A | Bienenfeld A
  The Journal of emergency medicine
  2015 Feb
  
  
• Primary versus secondary closure of cutaneous abscesses in the emergency department: a randomized controlled trial.
  
  Singer AJ | Taira BR | Chale S | Bhat R | Kennedy D | Schmitz G
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
  2013 Jan
  
  
• Primary closure of cutaneous abscesses: a systematic review.
  
  Singer AJ | Thode HC Jr | Chale S | Taira BR | Lee C
  The American journal of emergency medicine
  2011 May
  
  
• Evaluation of a novel wound closure device: a multicenter randomized controlled trial.
  
  Singer AJ | Chale S | Giardano P | Hocker M | Cairns C | Hamilton R | Nadkarni M | Mills AM | Hollander JE
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
  2011 Oct
  
  
• Observation option for acute otitis media in the emergency department.
  
  Fischer T | Singer AJ | Chale S
  Pediatric emergency care
  2009 Sep
  
  
• Digital versus local anesthesia for finger lacerations: a randomized controlled trial.
  
  Chale S | Singer AJ | Marchini S | McBride MJ | Kennedy D
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
  2006 Oct
  
  
• Single-layer versus double-layer closure of facial lacerations: a randomized controlled trial.
  
  Singer AJ | Gulla J | Hein M | Marchini S | Chale S | Arora BP
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery
  2005 Aug
  
  
• Evaluation of a new high-viscosity octylcyanoacrylate tissue adhesive for laceration repair: a randomized, clinical trial.
  
  Singer AJ | Giordano P | Fitch JL | Gulla J | Ryker D | Chale S
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
  2003 Oct
  
  
• Clostridium perfringens septicemia with massive hemolysis in a patient with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  
  Singer AJ | Migdal PM | Oken JP | Chale SN | Moll UM
  The American journal of emergency medicine
  1997 Mar