Faculty, Certification and Areas of Interest, and Program Administration

Jonathan F. Lara, M.D.
Residency Program Director

Margee Gearhart
Residency Coordinator

Saint Barnabas Medical Center:

Robert R. Rickert, MD – Chairman (John Hopkins Med Inst., 1962) AP- GI, Derm.

Selwyn J. Baptist, MD – Associate Chairman (St Johns Medical College, Bangalore University, 1969) AP/CP- Chemistry

Errol L. Berman, MD – (U of Louisville, 1968) AP/CP- Hematology

Michael Dardik, MD – (U of Penn, 1996) AP/CP- GU and GYN

Dae Un Kim, MD – (Seoul Natl., 1965) AP/CP-Renal, Blood Bank, EM

Marietta Kintiroglou, MD – (Athens, 1969) AP/Cytopathology- Cytology

Jonathan F. Lara, MD – Program Director (Far Eastern U, 1984) AP/CP/Cytol- Cytopathology, Breast and Soft tissue.

Richard M. Maliniak, Ph.D. – (Penn State U, 1978) AP/CP- Immunopathology

Emelie H. Ongcapin, MD – (Far Eastern U, 1964) AP/CP- Genetics, GYN

Teresita C. Redondo, MD – (U Phil, 1972) AP/CP/IP- Immunology

Ellen Romanowski MPA, MT- (ASCP) (Clarion U of Penn, 1983)- Lab Admin.

Marlene Sabbath-Solitaire, Ph.D. – (Columbia U, 1978)- Molecular Pathology and Cytogenetics

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center:

Melissa Pessin-Minsley, MD, Ph.D., - Chairman (John Hopkins, 1991), CP/BB- Blood Bank

Patricia Tsang, M.D., - Vice-Chairman (BU, 1992), AP, Hematopathology-Hematopathology

Andre Tallyrande, MD - (U Haiti, 1965), AP/CP- Cytology

Cyril D’Cruz, MD - (Baroda Med Coll., 1967) AP/CP Ped Path. - Pediatric Pathology

Ludmilla Olesnicky, MD - (U of Innsbruck, 1973) AP- Renal

Sherri Li, MD- (Hunan Med Coll., 1981) AP/CP/Cytol. - Cytology

Robert Benedetti, MD- (St. George Univ, Grenada, 1987) AP/CP/Cytol. - AP, CP and Cytology

Monmouth Medical Center:

Louis J.M. Zinterhofer, MD – Chairman (Tulane U, 1967) AP/CP/ChemPath/RP- Chemistry and toxicology.

Yong Kong, MD – (Shanghai Med U, 1984), AP/CP-Surgical Pathology, Microbiology

Plamen Kossev, MD - (Bulgaria, 1988), AP/CP, Hematopathology-Hematopathology

Wendy T. Shertz, MD – (Hahnemann U, 1980) AP/CP- Genetics

Eduardo Delaflor-Weiss, MD – (U Peru, 1983) AP/CP/BB- Blood Bank

Consultants:

Daniel Albert, MD – (U Penn) Ophthalmic Path
Michele Burday, Ph.D. – (U of Rochester, 1977)- Microbiology
MaryAnn Clayton, MD – (UMDNJ, 1981) Forensic Path
Vijay V. Joshi, MD, Ph.D. –(Grant Med Coll., 1962) AP/Ped Path
Calvin Oyer, MD – (Indiana U, 1952) AP/CP/Ped Path
Gilbert B. Solitaire, MD – (Yale U, 1957) AP/Neuropath

Many faculty members are involved in extra departmental activities with committee assignments at the county, state and national levels. These include leadership roles in county medical societies, state specialty organizations and national organizations such as the College of American Pathologists. The involvement of the faculty helps draw the pathology trainees into the mainstream of organized medicine, and makes them aware of their obligation to the community early in their careers.