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Dr. Lory Bright-Long graduated from Medical College of Ohio and came to SUNY Stony Brook for psychiatry residency and geropsychiatry fellowship. She joined the SUNY Stony Brook faculty after the fellowship and developed a Mental Health Teaching Nursing Home program at St. Johnland Nursing Center and co-founded the Long Island Alzheimer Disease Assistance Center. After leaving Stony Brook, she was the director of geriatric psychiatry at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center and director of the John P. Pavilion at St. Johnland. Currently she is the medical director of Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood and the psychiatric consultant at the Long Island State Veterans Home.

As a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at SUNY Stony Brook she is actively involved in teaching geriatric psychiatry and medical fellows, medical students, nursing under graduate and graduate students, dental students, and physician assistant students.

Dr. Bright-Long served the Suffolk County Psychiatric Society as Secretary-Treasurer, Delegate, President, and sat the Greater Long Island Psychiatry Society Board of Directors. Nationally, she was a member of the American Psychiatric Association's Council on Aging and the Committee on Long-Term Care. She was on the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Practice Guideline work group and helped develop the manual for nursing home psychiatry.

She has been active with the American Medical Directors Association, chairing the Mental Health Committee of the national Education Committee. The committee is creating a national nursing home mental health curriculum. She also has been a part of the AMDA Palliative Care Workgroup as it created the palliative care toolkit for long-term care.