<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/news/2025/06-03-2025.html" dsn="news"><title>Downstate’s Dr. Brian McNeil Named A National Health Policy Fellow By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation And The National Academy Of Medicine</title><item_date>06/03/2025 09:47:02 AM</item_date><author>Office of Communications &amp; Marketing</author><thumbnail><img src="https://www.downstate.edu/news-events/news/2025/_images/brian_mcneil_hi_res.jpg" alt="Brian McNeil"/></thumbnail><summary>SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University (Downstate) announced that Brian Keith McNeil, M.D., MBA, FACS, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Vice Chair of the Department of Urology at Downstate, was named among eight esteemed colleagues as a 2025–2026 Health Policy Fellow by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). This highly competitive fellowship places distinguished health professionals in Washington, D.C., where they engage in hands-on health-related legislative and regulatory work alongside members of Congress and the executive branch.</summary><featured/><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/news-events/news/2025/06-03-2025.xml</loc></item>