The Department of Medicine has 36 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 40% of our residents
have elected to enter private practice in medicine following
residency and approximately 60% 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,
regional, and national 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 several 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.
 Dr.
Richard Panush was born in Detroit, MI. 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 at Duke University Medical Center. He
undertook a fellowship in rheumatology and clinical immunology
at the Robert Breck and Peter Bent Brigham Hospitals at
Harvard Medical School. Dr. Panush went to University
of Florida in 1973 where he was Chief, 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
became Clinical Arthritis Scholar Professor of Medicine.
In 1989 Dr. Panush accepted an appointment as Chairman
and Program Director, Department of Medicine, Saint Barnabas
Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey; he was Professor
(1989- present) and Vice Chairman, Department of Medicine
(1989-1998), University of Medicine and Dentistry - New
Jersey Medical School and Professor, Mount Sinai School
of Medicine, 1999- 2008.
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); is a Master of the American College of Physicians
(2007)and of the American College of Rheumatology (2008);
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, President of the Association
of Chiefs and Chairs of Medicine, and President-Elect of
the National Society of Clinical Rheumatologists.
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 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.
 Assistant Program
Director and assistant professor of medicine, was
born in Kashmir, India, where he completed high school
and undergraduate studies with distinction. He obtained
his MB, BS 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 a junior faculty
member. 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 has several presentations, abstracts, and publications.
 Associate Program
Director and assistant professor of medicine, went
to the University of Miami for both 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 he helped develop and implement the Teaching
Office Practice program that helped a cohort of residents
interested in pursuing careers in general internal medicine
gain experience as junior partners in a primary care practice
throughout their residency (presented at the 1996 Association
of Program Directors in Internal Medicine meeting) and
was voted the best teaching faculty member by the internal
medicine residents. He has several presentations, abstracts,
and publications.
 , Assistant Program
Director and assistant professor of medicine, received
his BA from Franklin and Marshall College, and his PhD
in molecular genetics from the Waksman Institute, Rutgers
University. He was awarded a Charles and Johanna Busch
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and a Roche Institute of Molecular
Biology Research Fellowship. He worked at the Roche Institute
as a post-doctoral fellow and research fellow and at Cornell
Medical College as a senior research associate, with 13
original publications and 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 also been
an attending physician at the East Orange Veterans Administration
Medical Center.
 ,Assistant Program Director and assistant
professor of medicine, 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
worked at Clara Maas Medical Center as a pediatric hospitalist
and at Newton Memorial Medical Center as an internal medicine
hospitalist. She has several presentations, abstracts, and
publications.
Ms.
Eid graduated Fordham University’s College of Business
Administration with dual concentration in Managerial Accounting
and Quantitative Methods. She has earned 39 credits
toward an M.P.H. degree at New York Medical College. She
has been a Residency Coordinator and Department Head for
Medical Education at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center.
She has also served as Director, Medical Education and
Medical Staff Services for Our Lady of Mercy Healthcare
System and St. Agnes Hospital both located in NY. She was
most recently House Staff Manager for the Office of Graduate
Medical Education at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia
Campus.
, Medical Humanities
Program Faculty, graduated Montclair State University
and UMDNJ-NJMS where he completed a medicine residency;
his cardiology fellowship was at Newark-Beth Israel Medical
Center. He is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology,
and echo-cardiography. Despite his busy practice, Dr. Wangenheim
enrolled in the program for a Doctorate in Medical Humanities
of Drew University. He has several presentations, abstracts,
and publications.
, Professor
and Director, Department of Medical Education and Clinical
Research, SBMC, graduated from Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, and trained in anesthesiology at the Hospital
of the University of Pennsylvania. Following a year of
laboratory fellowship training in the Pharmacology Department
of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, he served
as chief of anesthesia at the U.S. Public Health System
Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He served on the Tufts
University Medical School faculty then joined the faculty
of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School achieving
the rank of tenured Associate Professor of Anesthesiology.
In 1981, he became Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
and residency program director at Hahnemann University
Medical School. Following its merger with the Medical College
of Pennsylvania in 1992 he was named Chair of the joint
department. In 1997 he became director of the Anesthesia
residency program and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in
the Department of Anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University.
Dr. Rosenberg serves on editorial boards of anesthesia
journals, was editor in chief of American Journal of Anesthesiology,
and is a senior examiner for the American Board of Anesthesiology.
In 1981 he co-founded the Malignant Hyperthermia Association
of the United States and served as its President. Dr. Rosenberg
has over 110 peer reviewed publications and numerous abstracts
and invited book chapters. In 2004 he was certified as
a physician executive by the American College of Physician
Executives.
, Senior Vice
President for Medical and Academic Affairs for Saint Barnabas
Medical Center and Vice President for Medical Education
for the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, a
member and past president of the NJ State Board of Medical
Examiners, is an emergency medicine physician, medical
educator, and attorney. He is Board Certified in both Emergency
Medicine and Family Practice and is a Fellow of the American
College of Emergency Physicians and the American College
of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians. Dr. Rokosz is
an Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and
Assistant Clinical Dean at the New York College of Osteopathic
Medicine. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the
Board of the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine Educational
Consortium, as Associate Dean at Mount Sinai School of
Medicine for the Saint Barnabas Health Care System., and
Associate Professor and a Director of Medical Education
for St. George's University School of Medicine.
Dr. Rokosz
is a past president of the Medical Staff at Union Hospital
in New Jersey where he also served as the Vice President
for Medical Affairs and Director of Medical Education. Dr.
Rokosz received a BA with honors from Rutgers University,
his medical degree at Des Moines University College of Osteopathic
Medicine and Surgery, and a JD, magna cum laude, with a concentration
in Health Law, from Seton Hall University School of Law where
he was also a member of the Law Review. Dr. Rokosz was nominated
by the Federation of State Medical Boards to serve on the
Accreditation Review Committee of the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education, a committee he recently
chaired. In addition, he has been a Board of Medical Examiner's
member of the Impairment Review Committee of the State's
Alternative Resolution Program since its inception.
 , Associate
Professor and Director, Intensive Care
Services, 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 completed a fellowship
in critical care medicine. He is certified and re-certified
in internal medicine and critical care medicine. Dr. Yodice
has been 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. 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 eight times, received the Robert Woolard
Clinical Excellence Award from the Emergency Medicine Department,
was the Charles C.J. Carpenter physician of the year, a “Top
Doc” in critical care in Rhode Island Monthly three
times, and was elected to the 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, Nutrition, and
served on CPR, Quality Indicator, Transfusion, Appropriate
Blood Transfusion, Code Review, Medical Staff Association,
Infection Control, Ventilator, Ethics, Professional and
Academic Affairs, ICU Renovations, Patients’ Rights,
DNA, MD Orders, Invasive Procedures Review, Medical Education,
Search, Patient Safety, Surgical Executive, and Medical
Executive (of which he was an officer) committees at the
Miriam Hospital/Lifespan/Brown University Medical School.
He has eight full-length publications, four manuscripts
submitted or in press, and 24 abstracts.
,
Assistant professor of medicine, intensivist, 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. 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.
, Intensivist, is a graduate of Rutgers University
and Saint Georges University School of Medicine. His medical
residency was completed at Newark-Beth Israel Medical Center
(NBIC) 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.
,
Intensivist, was an undergraduate at NY Institute of Technology
and finished medical school at NY 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 and affiliated with the Saint Barnabas
Health Care System.
, 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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