For a lot of people on the South Fork, seeing a specialist means a morning on Route 27. A cardiologist in one town, a primary care doctor in another, a scan that requires a third trip somewhere else, and suddenly managing your own health is a part-time job with a commute. Stony Brook Medicine just built the counterargument at 630 Hampton Road in Southampton: one building holding a family medicine doctor, three cardiologists and two vascular surgeons, opening to patients in November.

What is inside

The new practice got its ribbon cutting on October 6, with leadership from Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and Meeting House Lane Medical Practice on hand, along with Southampton Village Mayor William Manger Jr.

Behind the ribbon is a real clinical build-out, not a satellite office with a logo on the door. The practice holds 14 exam rooms plus a bariatric exam room, dedicated rooms for stress tests and echocardiograms, and an imaging room equipped with MyoSPECT, a nuclear imaging system designed specifically for the heart. That last one matters more than its name suggests: it measures blood flow and heart function, the kind of scan that tells a cardiologist whether a complaint is a blocked artery or a false alarm, and having it in the building means that answer no longer requires a separate appointment somewhere up island.

The physical design leans practical in quieter ways too. The building is reachable by a wheelchair-accessible ramp, and the bariatric exam room is the kind of detail most patients never think about until the day they or someone they love needs it: a room sized and equipped so that care does not depend on the patient fitting the furniture. Stress testing and echocardiography each get their own dedicated space rather than borrowing a general exam room, which is what lets a cardiology workup actually finish in one visit.

The doctors

Family medicine comes from Dr. Sabrina Trammel. The cardiology side belongs to Dr. Gunjan Joshi, Dr. Dhaval Patel and Dr. JP Reilly, and vascular care to surgeons Dr. Gurpreet Gill and Dr. Stefanos Giannopoulos. The point of putting them in one practice is not just shared parking. They work in the same system on the same records, which means the family doctor who hears something off, the cardiologist who orders the scan and the surgeon who reads the vessels can compare notes on an actual patient in actual time rather than by referral letter.

A pattern, not a one-off

Stony Brook has been steadily building out East End medicine since Southampton Hospital joined its system in 2017. The satellite emergency department in East Hampton came out of the same push, and a replacement hospital on the Southampton campus remains in long-term planning. The Hampton Road practice is the newest piece, and its leadership framed it exactly that way, as another step in widening access to the system's care across the East End.

The through line is a bet that East End residents should not have to choose between staying local and getting academic medical center care, and cardiology is precisely the specialty where a long drive is the difference between going to the appointment and skipping it.

What it means if you live out east

Starting in November, a Southampton resident can get a physical, a stress test, a heart scan and a vascular consult at one address in the village. For anyone who has been assembling that list across three towns and two months of scheduling, that is the whole story, and it is a good one. The practice opens to patients next month; appointments run through Stony Brook Medicine.