The Department of Medicine has 34 postgraduate training
positions. We receive thousands of internship inquiries each
year from candidates with varied backgrounds. Our residents
have obtained their undergraduate educations at institutions
as diverse as Yeshiva University, Catholic University, Florida
Southern College, Amherst College, Barnard College, Yale,
Columbia, Princeton, and Cornell Universities. Their medical
degrees are from schools such as Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, Boston University, New York University, and
the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Many
of our residents are international medical graduates and
have included, for example, a former Director of Transplantation
for Latvia, and a survivor of the Chinese cultural revolution;
these talented men and women with diverse backgrounds enrich
our program enormously.
Approximately half of our housestaff have elected to enter
private practice in medicine following residency and approximately
half continued into subspecialty fellowship training in programs
of their choosing throughout the United States.
We are proud of our program's recent successes. We have added
outstanding individuals to our full-time educational faculty.
Our faculty publishes widely and are nationally recognized.
Our residency has received laudatory evaluations from the
American Board of Internal Medicine. Positions offered are
all filled by the upper echelon of candidates. Performance
of our residents on American Board of Medicine and In-Training
examinations exceed the national averages, and those of our
graduates seeking further training have been offered opportunities
at other attractive programs (for example, Brigham and Women's
Hospital/Harvard, Yale, Hopkins, Cornell, Columbia, Penn,
NIH, Michigan, Georgetown, Cleveland Clinic, Tennessee, University
of Texas-Houston, Illinois, Vanderbilt, Albany, Mt. Sinai,
Einstein, Duke, and others). Ours is a program of established
excellence.
The Department of Medicine is strongly committed to excellence
in scholarly activities. Our faculty has broad, diverse,
and eclectic interests. We have published many scientific
articles annually in each of recent years. Our papers have
appeared in journals including the Annals of Internal Medicine,
American Journal of Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine,
Journal of the American Medical Association (cover feature),
New England Journal of Medicine, The Pharos, and leading
subspecialty journals, and we have edited Medical Clinics
series and Yearbook series. Our staff has presented at major
national and international meetings, assumed important leadership
roles in Internal Medicine and subspecialty professional
organizations, and obtained competitive grant awards. Saint
Barnabas Medical Center internists have been governors of
the American College of Physicians, presidents of state and
regional specialty societies, and active in national subspecialty
groups.
The Department of Medicine consists of nearly 600 physicians
practicing internal medicine and its subspecialties. The
inpatient medical service is comprised of 356 beds. There
are separate units within the hospital for cardiology, oncology,
nephrology, geriatrics, pulmonary medicine, diabetes, geriatrics,
general internal medicine, intensive care, and cardiac intensive
care.
There are presently over two dozen hospital-based physicians,
with major responsibilities to the Medicine training program
and representing a variety of medical subspecialties. These
include cardiology, pulmonary medicine, nephrology hematology/oncology,
infectious diseases, geriatrics, rheumatology/allergy, endocrinology,
and internal medicine.
 , was born in Detroit, Michigan.
He received his undergraduate (BA 1965) and medical school
(MD 1967) education at the University of Michigan (AOA medical
honorary society (1966). Dr. Panush completed his internal
medicine residency training at Duke University Medical Center.
He undertook fellowship training in rheumatology and clinical
immunology at the Robert Breck and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals
at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Panush went to the University
of Florida in 1973, where he was Chief of the Division of
Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology and Allergy at the University
of Florida College of Medicine and affiliated Veterans Administration
Medical Center from 1976 to 1988, and subsequently was the
Clinical Arthritis Scholar Professor of Medicine. Dr. Panush
has been President, Southeast Region American College of
Rheumatology; Editor of Postgraduate Advances in Rheumatology;
Editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of Rheumatology; on the editorial
boards of Arthritis and Rheumatism, The Bulletin on the Rheumatic
Diseases, and the Journal of Rheumatology; an editor of the
rheumatology section of the Medical Knowledge Self Assessment
Program of the American College of Physicians and Associate
Editor of their Physician Information and Education Resource
Project; Associate Editor of ACR News; has edited the American
College of Rheumatology Hotline; has been features editor
of the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology; served on the Arthritis
Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration; served
on the Alternative Medicine Program Advisory Council, National
Institutes of Health, served on American College of Rheumatology
Annual Meeting, Education, Communications and Marketing,
Industry Relations, Curriculum, and Planning Committees;
chaired the American College of Rheumatology Sponsored Programs,
Public Forum, Complementary and Alternative Remedies, and
Board's Ethics Committees; was on the American College of
Rheumatology Board of Directors; was a member of the American
Board of Rheumatology Research and Education Foundation Board
of Directors; was recipient of the American College of Rheumatology
Distinguished Service Award (2005); was a member of other
committees of the Association of Program Directors of Internal
Medicine, American Academy of Allergy and Immunology, American
College of Physicians and American Board of Internal Medicine;
and was a member of the founding Organizational Work Group,
Council, and President-Elect (-designate) for the Association
of Chiefs and Chairs of Medicine. He has written over 500
scientific publications and is widely recognized for his
expertise on various aspects of rheumatic diseases and clinical
immunology, and for his perspectives on medicine. Dr. Panush's
research has been cited in Time magazine, he has been invited
to write about arthritis for Encyclopedia Britannica, and
he has been listed in the Best Doctors in America. In 1989
Dr. Panush accepted an appointment as Chairman and Program
Director, Department of Medicine, Saint Barnabas Medical
Center, Livingston, New Jersey (the nation’s 13th best
hospital in a recent survey; resident program accredited
without citations, with commendation, & for 5 yrs, and
selected for participation the RRC-Medicine’s Educational
Innovation Project, 2006; residents score in top tertile/quartile
on in-training exam, pass ABIM certifying exam at c. 100%,
won NJ ACP knowledge-based challenge bowl 4 consecutive yrs,
won NJ and national awards for presentations/ research, & invited
to elite fellowship programs); he was Professor and Vice
Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of Medicine
and Dentistry - New Jersey Medical School from 1989-1998
and Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1999- present.
 , was born in Kashmir, India, where he completed
his high school and undergraduate studies with distinction.
He obtained his MBBS degree at the medical college in Srinagar
(University of Kashmir) before completing postgraduate training
in Internal Medicine at the prestigious Sheri-Kashmir Institute
of Medical Sciences, where he remained as a junior faculty
member. Subsequently he joined the cardiology department
at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, as junior faculty.
He was selected for an overseas assignment by the Ministry
of Health, Oman, and served as an Internal Medicine Specialist
at a referral hospital with teaching responsibilities for
students and interns from Oman’s only medical school
and received a special award of recognition by the Ministry
Of Health. He completed his medical residency at SUNY Buffalo
and Saint Barnabas Medical Center, where he received the “Outstanding
Graduating Resident” award. He holds faculty appointments
at Mount Sinai and the Saint Georges’ University
Schools of Medicine.
 , went to the University of
Miami for both his undergraduate and medical education as
part of the Honors Program in Medical Education ( BS 1989,
MD 1992.). He completed medicine residency at the Miriam
Hospital, Brown University where he was twice recognized
with the “best resident teacher”, Dr. Parikh
joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut Primary
Care Internal Medicine Program in New Britain, Connecticut
where Dr. Parikh helped develop and implement the Teaching
Office Practice (TOP) that helped a cohort of residents interested
in pursuing careers in general internal medicine to gain
experience as junior partners in a primary care practice
throughout their residency (presented at the 1996 APDIM meeting)
and was the best teaching Faculty member by the internal
medicine residents. Dr. Parikh, Assistant Professor of Medicine,
has a passion for medical education and special interest
in preventive medicine.
 , received his BA from Franklin
and Marshall College, and his PhD in moledular genetics
from the Waksman Institute, Rutgers University. He was
awarded a Charles and Johanna Busch Predoctoral Fellowship
and a Roche Institute of Molecular Biology Research
Fellowship. He worked at the Roche Institute as a postdoctoral
fellow and research fellow and at Cornell Medical College
as a senior research associate, with 13 original publications/abstracts.
He then completed medical school at the University
of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical
School (UMDNJ-NJMS), followed by residency at UMDNJ-NJMS.
Dr Carlino has since been an attending physician at
the East Orange Veterans Administration Medical Center.
 , is a magna cum laude honors
program graduate of the College of New Jersey and of UMDNJ-NJMS.
She completed her residency at UMDNJ-NJMS in a combined internal
medicine-pediatrics program. She has been worked at Clara
Maas Medical Center as a pediatric hospitalist and in Newton
as an internal medicine hospit5alist. Her husband, Abe, just
finished his surgical residency at Saint Barnabas Medical
Center, started a fellowship at the Massachusetts General
Hospital, and will return here in July 2007 to join the Burn
Unit surgical staff.
 , graduated NYU and New York Medical
College. He completed internship and residency at St.
Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center (New York) where
he served as chief medical resident. He then undertook
fellowship there in critical care medicine. He is certified
and recertified in internal medicine and critical care medicine. Dr.
Yodice has been the director of the fellowship program, critical
care division, and the ICU at The Miriam Hospital, Brown
University School of Medicine, from 1995 to the present. He
has written 8 full-length publications, 4 manuscripts submitted
or in press, and 24 abstracts. Dr. Yodice was intern
of the year, resident of the year, fellow of the year, and
teacher of the year at St. Vincent’s. At Miriam
Hospital/Brown School of Medicine, he was outstanding teacher
of the year 8 times, received the Robert Woolard Clinical
Excellence Award from the Emergency Medicine Department,
was the Charles C. J. Carpenter physician of the year awardee,
was a “top doc” in critical care of Rhode Island
Monthly 3 times, and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha medical
school honor society. Dr. Yodice was President of the
Rhode Island Critical Care Society, a regional director of
the New England Chapter of the Society for Critical Care
Medicine, and a member of the Graduate Medical Education/Fellowship
and Continuing Medical Education Committees of the Society
for Critical Care Medicine. He chaired committees for
ICU quality improvement, Patient Satisfaction, and Nutrition,
and served on CPR, Quality Indicator, Transfusion, Appropriate
Blood Transfusion, Code Review, Medical Staff Association,
Infection Control, Ventilator Steering, Ethics, Professional
and Academic Affairs, ICU Renovations, Patients’ Rights,
DNA, MD Orders, Invasive Procedures Review, Medical Education,
(several medical centers) Search, Patient Safety, Surgical
Executive, and Medical Executive (of which he was an officer)
committees at The Miriam Hospital/Lifespan/Brown University
Medical School.
, graduated Rutgers
University and New Jersey Medical School. She completed her
medicine residency and pulmonary/critical care fellowship
at UMDNJ-NJMS and remained on their faculty as Assistant
Professor of Medicine. She has served as clinical division
director and acting director of medical intensive care, was
a nominee for the golden apple teaching award and recognized
with a “best doctor” citation. She has several
scientific presentations and publications.
, is a graduate of Rutgers University
and Saint Georges University School of Medicine. His medical
residency was at Newark-Beth Israel Medical Center, where
he remained for fellowship in pulmonary/critical care medicine,
serving as chief fellow. He received awards for distinction
from Rutgers and NBIMC and has presented and published several
papers.
, was an undergraduate at
New York Institute of Technology and finished medical school
at New York College of Osteopathy. His medicine residency
was at North Shore University Hospital; he was a fellow and
chief fellow in critical care medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center. Prior to his fellowship he was in practice,
in part in SBHCS, for several years.
, Chief, graduated
from B.J. Medical School and completed his internship at
this institution, his residency at Morristown Memorial Hospital,
and a nephrology fellowship at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
He was the recipient of the Outstanding Healthcare Professional
Award from TRIO New Jersey, the Outstanding Subspecialist
of the Year Award for 1989-1990, the Golden Apple Award for
1996-1997, and is a scholarly and gifted educator who has
published over a dozen scientific papers.
, Director, graduated
from Rutgers University and University Technologica de Santiago,
was a medical intern and resident at Saint Barnabas Medical
Center, and completed a cardiology fellowship at Saint Barnabas
Medical Center. He was the recipient of the Outstanding
Subspecialist of the Year Award for 1993-1994.
, Chief,
graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine. He completed his residency
in internal medicine at New York Hospital – Memorial
Hospital (Cornell) and Baltimore City Hospitals. Dr.
Zauber is Principle Investigator, Genetic Epidemiology Study
of Colorectal Polyps and Cancer, and the author of a number
of scientific publications. He was the recipient of
the Outstanding Internist of the Year Award in 1986-1987
and 1990-1991.
, Coordinator,
graduated from Syracuse University and Eastern Virginia Medical
School. He completed his internal medicine residency
training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New
Jersey – New Jersey Medical School where he also served
as Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Rothkopf completed a
fellowship in Critical Care Medicine and Hyperalimentation
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University
and is the author of over 55 publications. He was the
recipient of the Outstanding Internist of the Year Award
for 1989-1990.
, Chief,
Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, graduated from
Washington University and University of Health Sciences -
Chicago Medical School. He completed an internal medicine
residency at St. Luke's - Roosevelt Center (New York) and
Allergy and Clinical Immunology Fellowship at R. A. Cook
Institute of Allergy at St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center.
Dr. Weiss is Clinical Instructor, College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Columbia University.
, Chief, Division of
Cardiology, Director of Cardiology, Co-Director Cardiac and
Intermediate Cardiac Care Units, and Co-Director, Cardiology
Education, graduated from George Washington University and
George Washington University School of Medicine. He
completed his medical internship and residency at Long Island
Jewish - Hillside Medical Center and a cardiology fellowship
at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He has
had academic appointments as Instructor in Medicine, University
of Rochester Medical School and Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Albany Medical College. He is the author of several
scientific publications.
, Chief, Division
of Dermatology, graduated from Fordham University and Albert
Einstein College of Medicine. He was an intern at Montefiore
Hospital/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a resident
and chief resident at UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School.
, Co-Chief, Division
of Dermatology, graduated from Fairfield University and UMDNJ
- New Jersey Medical School. He was an intern at Yale
- New Haven Hospital and a resident at University of Miami
- Jackson Memorial Hospital.
, Chief,
Division of Endocrinology, graduated from Dartmouth College
and Dartmouth/Harvard Medical School. He was a medical
house officer at Bellevue (Columbia) and Columbia, was a
research associate at the National Institutes of Health,
and endocrinology fellow at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Dr.
Gewirtz is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, New
Jersey College of Medicine, and author of several scientific
publications. Dr. Gewirtz is also the Medical Director
of Joslin Diabetes Clinic.
, Co-Chief, Division
of Endocrinology, graduated from Osmania University School
of Medicine, India. He completed his medical residency
at Lutheran Medical Center in Ohio, and his fellowship in
National Institute of Health in Maryland. He is the
recipient of several awards and honors, including the award
of Board Reviewer in Endocrinology at the Saint Barnabas
Medical Center, NJ. Dr. Nambi has an extensive teaching
experience in India as well as in Community and University
hospitals in New Jersey. He is the author of several
scientific publications and abstract presentations.
,
Division of Gastroenterology, graduated from Brandeis University
and The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Askin completed
his internal medicine residency at New York Presbyterian
Hospital/Cornell Campus, and his gastroenterology fellowship
at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. His
areas of special interest include capsule endoscopy, inflammatory
bowel disease and gastrointestinal endoscopy.
, Division
of Hypertension, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
and Medical College of Pennsylvania. He completed medical
internship, residency, and Chief Medical Residency at New
Jersey Medical School Affiliated Hospitals. He was
a nephrology fellow at New York Hospital - Cornell Medical
Center. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine,
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New
Jersey Medical Scholl and has authored nearly a dozen scientific
publications.
Division members include:
Lawrence Byrd, M.D. Michael
Gutkin, M.D.
Charles Gelber, M.D. Dennis
Talon, M.D.
, Division of
Infectious Diseases, also serves as Assistant Chairman of
the Department of Medicine. The section provides clinical
consultation to a large number of patients from the oncology
service, renal transplant service, burn unit, pulmonary sections,
and general medical services, and directs the institutional
HIV clinic. Regular teaching and clinical functions
are conducted by this section. The Infection Control
Department, with four full-time Infection Control practitioners,
provides a comprehensive program of nosocomial infection
surveillance and prevention and is involved in monitoring
employee health and hospital antibiotic usage.
, Division of
Internal Medicine, graduated from Rutgers University and
U.A.G. School of Medicine. He completed his internship
and residency at UMDNJ. He was the recipient of the
Outstanding Internist of the Year Award in 1988-1989, 1993-1994,
and 1997-1998.
, Division
of Internal Medicine, graduated from Rutgers University and
the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Seville. He
completed his medical residency and chief residency at Saint
Barnabas Medical Center and has remained a valuable and active
member of the medical staff. He was the recipient of
the Outstanding Internist of the Year Award in 1992-1993
and 1997-1998.
, Division
of Nephrology, graduated from Case Western Reserve University
and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Alpha Omega Alpha). He
was an intern, resident, and chief medical resident at Mt.
Sinai Medical Center and nephrology fellow at Boston University
School of Medicine and Mt. Sinai Hospital. Dr. Lyman
is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and is the author of
several medical publications. He was the recipient
of the Outstanding Subspecialist of the Year Award in 1991-1992
and the Golden Apple Award in 1995-1996.
, Division
of Neurology, graduated from Temple University and Jefferson
Medical College. He completed a residency in internal
medicine at Temple University Medical Center and in neurology
at Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical Center, where he also served
a year as chief resident.
, Division
of Neurology, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He
completed his neurology residency at Barnes Hospital, and
a neuromuscular fellowship at Neurologic Institute.
,
Division of Oncology, graduated from Brandeis University
and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. He completed a residency
in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital (University
Texas, Southwestern), and medical oncology/hematology fellowship
at Memorial Hospital (Cornell University). Dr. Leitner
has co-authored several publications.
,
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, graduated from Purdue University
and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey,
where he was also a medical house officer, chief resident
(Newark Beth Israel Medical Center), and fellow in pulmonary
medicine. Dr. Kassabian is a member of the American
Thoracic Society, Fellow of the American College of Chest
Physicians, member of the New Jersey Department of Health
Tuberculosis Advisory Council, Clinical Assistant Professor
of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of
New Jersey - New Jersey Medical School, and co-author of
several publications. He is very involved in Saint
Barnabas Medical Center housestaff education programs. He
was the recipient of the Outstanding Subspecialist of the
Year Award in 1987-1988 and the Golden Apple Award in 1998-1999.
,
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, completed her training in
pulmonary and critical care medicine at Temple University
Medical Center, where she also held an appointment as Lecturer
in Medicine. She is also the Educational Coordinator
of the Medical Intensive Care Unit. She has contributed
several scientific publications and presentations.
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