NEW JERSEY - Key Persons
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- Contracts Administrator
- Member of the Contract Management Team
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- Assistant Manager Peri - Ops Materials Management
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- Member of the Officers Team
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- Member of the Officers Team
- Medical Staff President / Chair, Medical Staff Executive Committee
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- DIRECTOR
- Leader
- Ex - Officio
- Member of the American Epidemiology Society
BRIAN L. STROM, M.D., M.P.H. is the recently appointed Inaugural Chancellor of RutgersBiomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) and the Executive Vice President for Health Affairs at Rutgers University. RBHS is comprised of nine schools and five centers/institutes, and includes academic, patient care, and research facilities. These are most of the units of the former University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), now dissolved, several Rutgers University units with health-related missions, and two research units historically co-managed by Rutgers and UMDNJ. The integration of these entities is designed to create a single organization that will lead to new models for clinical care and community service, educate the next generation of health care providers utilizing health care team approaches, and conduct research. Dr. Strom was formerly the Executive Vice Dean of Institutional Affairs, Founding Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Founding Director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, all at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).
Dr. Strom earned a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1971, and then an M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1975. From 1975-1978 he was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine and from 1978-1980 he was an NIH fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco. He simultaneously earned an M.P.H. Degree in Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine since 1980. The Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB) that he created at Penn includes over 550 faculty, research and support staff, and trainees. At the time Dr. Strom stepped down, CCEB research received nearly $49 million/year in extramural support. Its total budget was approximately $67 million.
Although Dr. Strom's interests span many areas of clinical epidemiology, his major research interest is in the field of pharmacoepidemiology, i.e., the application of epidemiologic methods to the study of drug use and effects. He is recognized as a founder of this field and for his pioneer work in using large automated databases for research. He is editor of the field's major text (now in its fifth edition) and Editor-in-Chief for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, the official journal of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. As one of many specific contributions, his research was pivotal in prompting the American Heart Association and American Dental Association to reverse 50 years of guidelines, and recommend against use of antibiotics to prevent infective endocarditis, instead of recommending for this widespread practice. In addition to writing more than 580 papers, and 14 books, he has been principal investigator for more than 275 grants, including over $115 million in direct costs alone. Dr. Strom has been invited to give more than 400 talks outside his local area, including presentations as the keynote speaker for numerous international meetings. He has been a consultant to NIH, FDA, CDC, USP, AAMC, JCAHO, foreign governments, most major pharmaceutical manufacturers, and many law firms.
Dr. Strom is also a nationally recognized leader in clinical research training. At the Perelman School of Medicine, Dr. Strom developed graduate training programs in epidemiology and biostatistics. More than 625 clinicians have been trained or are in training through the largest of these training programs, which leads to a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology degree. All but approximately 65 former trainees in this program have appointments in academic or other research institutions. Dr. Strom was PI or Co-PI of 11 different NIH-funded training grants (T32, D43, K12, and K30), each of which supported clinical epidemiology trainees in different specialties and subspecialties, and has been the primary mentor for more than 40 former and current clinical research trainees and numerous junior faculty members. Internationally, Dr. Strom was a key contributor to the conceptualization and planning that led to the development of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN), created in 1979 with support provided by the Rockefeller Foundation to provide clinical research training to clinicians from selected developing country sites. Penn was an INCLEN founding member and one of five training centers. INCLEN Phase I, from 1979 through 1995, resulted in the establishment of 26 clinical epidemiology units in Latin America, India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The Penn training program alone, led by Dr. Strom, trained 63 INCLEN trainees.
Dr. Strom was a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians, the Board of Directors of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and the Board of Directors for the American College of Epidemiology, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Patient-Oriented Research. He was previously President of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and the Association for Clinical Research Training. Dr. Strom was on the Drug Utilization Review Committee and the Gerontology Committee of the United States Pharmacopoeia, served on the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee for the US Food and Drug Administration, chaired the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine, chaired the IOM Committee on Smallpox Vaccine Program Implementation, chaired the IOM Committee to Review NIOSH's Traumatic Injury Program, chaired the IOM Committee on the Consequences of Reducing Sodium in the Population, was a member of the IOM Committee to Review the CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Research Program, and was a member of the IOM Committee on Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Dr. Strom is a member of the American Epidemiology Society, and is one of a handful of clinical epidemiologists ever elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and American Association of Physicians. He has also been an elected member of the IOM of the National Academy of Sciences since 2001. Dr. Strom received the 2003 Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, the Naomi M. Kanof Clinical Investigator Award of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the George S. Pepper Professorship of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and in 2006 he received the Sustained Scientific Excellence Award from the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. In addition, Dr. Strom was named the 2008 recipient of the John Phillips Memorial Award for Outstanding Work in Clinical Medicine. This award is from the American College of Physicians (ACP) and is considered to be one of the highest awards in Internal Medicine. Dr. Strom also received the 2013 Association for Clinical and Translational Science/American Federation for Medical Research National Award for Career Achievement and Contribution to Clinical and Translational Science for translation from clinical use into public benefit and policy. Penn awards that Dr. Strom received include the Class of 1992 Class Teaching Award and the Samuel Martin Health Evaluation Sciences Research Award. Dr. Strom received the 2004 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award, the University's most prestigious teaching award, in recognition of the contribution he has made in his career to clinical research teaching.
He was appointed to the University Hospital Board of Directors in November 2013.
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- DIRECTOR
- Fellow
- Commissioner for the New Jersey Commission
- Ex - Officio
Cecile A. Feldman has served as Dean of the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM) since February 2001. The school was formally known as the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New Jersey Dental School. Previously she served as acting, then interim dean of the school from early 1999 to 2001.
Dr. Feldman has served as a commissioner for the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education, the New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority and the Commission on Dental Accreditation. She has also served as an advisory council member for the National Institute of Health Council of Councils and National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council.
Dr. Feldman is a fellow in the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists and Academy of General Dentistry.
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- DIRECTOR
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the United Fund of Westfield
Dr. Molowa has had a unique professional career over the past 35 years. He has had roles in three distinct disciplines: scientific research, financial services and education. Dr. Molowa is currently on the faculty of Morristown-Beard School where he also holds the title of Dean and Varsity coach.
Dr. Molowa holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, an MBA from Rutgers University and a BS from the University of Richmond. He also served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Internal Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Molowa began his professional career as a Senior Research Biochemist in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at Merck. He is the author of 17 peer reviewed scientific publications.
Dr. Molowa has been recognized as one of the leading Biotechnology Investors by The Wall Street Journal and Institution Investor magazine. In this role he served as a Managing Director at UBS Securities, JP Morgan and Bear Stearns. He has also been involved in venture capital as a Venture Partner at Venrock Associates. In addition, he served on the Board of Directors of Favrille Inc., a publically traded biotechnology company.
Dr. Molowa has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the United Fund of Westfield, The Westfield Foundation and the Board of Associates of the University of Richmond. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Westfield Memorial Library. Dr. Molowa resides in Westfield, NJ.
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- DIRECTOR
- President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, Inc
Dr. Landers is the President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, Inc., the nation's second largest not-for- profit home health care organization servicing New Jersey, Ohio and Florida. As a certified family doctor and geriatrician, Dr. Landers places a strong emphasis on house calls to the vulnerable elderly and has a specialized interest in geriatric medicine, home health, hospice and palliative care.
Dr. Landers is a graduate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Landers has authored several articles on the role of home care in national publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medicine. Dr. Landers previously joined the Huffington Post as a regular blogger focusing on health policy, family caregivers, and nurses and finding ways to improve quality and value in American health care.
Before joining VNA Health Group, Dr. Landers served as the Director of the Center for Home Care and Community Rehabilitation and Director of Post-Acute Operations for the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic.
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
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- Member of the Contract Management Team
- Sourcing Administrator
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- DIRECTOR
- Business Administrator for the City of Newark
- Ex - Officio
Eric Pennington is the Business Administrator for the City of Newark. He is responsible for the City's $600 million budget and the administration of over 3,000 city employees. Mr. Pennington joined Mayor Baraka's administration after an extensive legal career, serving as the Managing Partner of the Pennington Law Group; as an attorney at the prestigious law firms of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and at Gibbons PC; as an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, and as a clerk for the New Jersey Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mr. Pennington previously served on the Board of Trustees for the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, and was a former Commissioner of the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation.
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- Acting Chief Human Resources Officer
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- Inventory Control Manager
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- Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
- Director Materials Management
- Director University Hospital Materials
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- DIRECTOR
- Professor of the Practice at Princeton University 's School of Public
Heather Howard is a healthcare policy expert and currently a Professor of the Practice at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs. She is Co-Director of Princeton's Global Health Program and Director of the State Health and Value Strategies program, an RWJ Foundation-funded program focused on supporting state efforts to enhance the value of health care by improving population health and reforming the delivery of services. Ms. Howard has a long history of dedicated public service - notably serving as New Jersey's Commissioner of Health and Senior Services from 2008-2010. Additionally, she worked as Governor Corzine's Chief Policy Counsel, as then Senator Corzine's Chief of Staff, as Associate Director for the White House Domestic Policy Council, as Senior Policy Advisor for First Lady Hillary Clinton, and as an Honors Attorney in the United States Department of Justice. Ms. Howard was also recently appointed to Governor Murphy's Restart & Recovery Advisory Council.
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- Coordinator for UH Mailing Services
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- Department of Emergency Medicine
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- DIRECTOR
- President and CEO of United Way of Essex
Keith Green is President and CEO of United Way of Essex and West Hudson, a position he has held since 2007. He has had a professional association with the United Way Organization that began in California in 1991. He came to Newark from Los Angeles, where he was Senior Vice President of its United Way. In addition, Mr. Green has extensive experience as a corporate trainer and an organizational training consultant for major companies.
Mr. Green attended Tuskegee University, the executive leadership program at UCLA, and the Union Institute in Los Angeles, from which he received a BS degree. He is the recipient of many community partnership awards, including those from Leadership Newark, the Girl Scouts, La Movida, Inc., and Habitat for Humanity, Newark. He has served on the community advisory boards of the Rutgers Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies and the UMDNJ School of Nursing. Mr. Green is a resident of Newark.
He was appointed to the University Hospital Board of Directors on September 22, 2014.
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- Interim Chief Strategic Integration & Health Equity Officer
Mark A. Lattouf, MD has extensive career experience in clinical medicine focusing on dermatology and biologic therapy. His career has been focused in industry where he has gained substantial experience in business development, translational medicine, and in health economics and outcomes research. Dr. Lattouf is currently the National Director of Medical Affairs for a large international Pharmaceutical Company based in New Jersey. He is involved with clinical strategy and leads the translational medicine team aimed at discovering novel molecules and diagnostic tools for the advancement of clinical medicine for greater patient care. While in this role Dr. Lattouf manages a multimillion-dollar budget, while leading a medical team throughout the U.S.
In addition to his leadership roles, He has been involved with numerous clinical trials as well as authorships and podium presentations at state and national conferences. He has led Managed Markets teams delivering clinically relevant scientific data and advocating for drug coverage policies and management. Dr. Lattouf is also an Adjunct Professor at Allied Health Universities in Florida in the disciplines of Clinical Medicine, Infectious Disease, Dermatology and Genetics.
Dr. Lattouf received his MD from Spartan Health Sciences University School of Medicine, he is married with two children and spends his free time traveling with his family.
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- DIRECTOR
- Ex - Officio
- Executive Director of Health Systems
- Member of the Advisory Boards for the Rutgers Institute for Women 's Leadership
Mary O'Dowd is the Executive Director of Health Systems and Population Health Integration for Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. O'Dowd develops and supports multi-disciplinary projects and translational research as a member of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Global Health Institute and the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.
Prior to joining Rutgers University, from 2008 to 2015 O'Dowd held various leadership roles in the New Jersey Department of Health including serving as Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and as Chief of Staff. Ms. O'Dowd previously held positions in hospital finance at NYU Langone Medical Center and health policy at the New Jersey Hospital Association and the New Jersey General Assembly.
O'Dowd is a member of the advisory boards for the Rutgers Institute for Women's Leadership, and the New Jersey Action Coalition - Future of Nursing for the Health of Our State. She has previously served as a board member for Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and the Association for State and Territorial Health Officers.
O'Dowd is a graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University and the Institute for Women's Leadership Scholars Program, holds a Master in Public Health from Columbia University and completed a hospital finance fellowship at NYU Medical Center. She is a lifelong New Jersey resident and currently lives in Princeton with her husband and three sons.
She joined the University Hospital Board of Directors in December 2018 as the designee of Robert Barchi, President of Rutgers University.
McKenzie Wilson - Chief Legal Officer, Secretary
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- Chief Legal Officer
- Corporate Secretary
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- Department of Orthopaedics
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- Member of the Officers Team
- Medical Staff President - Elect / Department of Surgery
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Director, Business Solutions Group / Acurity, Inc.
Robert J. Rubino, MD, FACOG is an alumnus of Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School and completed his residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at University Hospital. He is the founder of the Rubino OB/GYN group, leading one of the largest women's healthcare practices in Northern N.J. with offices in West Orange, Summit, Madison, Clark and Bayonne. Dr. Rubino served as the Residency Director for the Rutgers-NJMS Obstetrics and Gynecology program at Overlook Medical Center from 2000-2003.
Dr. Rubino has been committed to medical education and advancing women's health for over 20 years. He is a published author in medical peer review journals on the topic of minimally invasive procedures. He established a medical research mentoring program "Tomorrow's MDs" for Summit High School students. Dr. Rubino has been involved in the medical device sector as a founder of Emmy Medical, manufacturer of the Cystosure catheter system.
Dr. Rubino is at the forefront of technological advances and was an early champion of incorporating the electronic medical record (EMR) into his practice. Outside of the medical world, he was a founding board member of the Palo Alto based company "Perzo" which evolved into "Symphony Communications Services, LLC", a secure messaging company. This is now one of the main communication platforms in the finance sector as it was acquired by Goldman Sachs and other major U.S. banks in September 2014.
In addition, Dr. Rubino is active in his community as an elected official. He is a Councilman for the city of Summit, NJ, serving as Council President in 2014 and 2015. He is spearheading the development of the Summit Park Line, an elevated pedestrian park similar to the NYC Highline, and recently secured the 1.2 mile stretch of abandoned railway from the State of New Jersey. Dr. Rubino is President of the Summit Park Line Foundation and is a long-standing board member on the Red Cross NJ Crossroads chapter.
Dr. Rubino resides in Summit, N.J with his wife, Dr. Susan Rubino, also an alumnus of Rutgers-NJMS and their 3 children.
Robert L. Johnson, MD, FAAP was appointed The Sharon and Joseph L. Muscarelle Endowed Dean of New Jersey Medical School, a unit of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on March 16, 2011, becoming the eighth Dean of the State's oldest medical school. He served as Interim Dean from 2005 until his appointment to the deanship in 2011. Prior to assuming the interim deanship, Dr. Johnson served as Professor and Chair of Pediatrics. He continues to serve as Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine.
Dr. Johnson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He currently chairs the Governor's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and Related Blood Borne Pathogens and the Newark Ryan White Planning Council. He serves as a member of the Community Prevention Task Force of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is a member of the Board of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies of Science.
Previously, Dr. Johnson served as the President of the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners; as the Chair of the US Department of Health and Human Services' Council on Graduate Medical Education; and as a member of the National Council of the National Institute of Mental Health; the NIH AIDS Research Council; the Institute of Medicine, Health Care Services Board, and the Board of Law and Justice for the National Academy of Science.
Dr. Johnson's research focuses on adolescent physical and mental health, adolescent HIV, adolescent violence, adolescent fatherhood and risk prevention/reduction programs with specific emphasis on substance and alcohol abuse, sexuality and sexual dysfunction, male sexual abuse, suicide and AIDS.
Dr. Johnson received his BA from Alfred University in 1968 and his MD from the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - now Rutgers New Jersey Medical School - in 1972. Dr. Johnson is a well-recognized spokesperson for adolescent men and their issues. He regularly addresses many local, state, national and international audiences and frequently appears on television and radio. Dr. Johnson is widely published and maintains an active schedule of teaching, conducting research and treating adolescent patients at New Jersey Medical School.
Dr. Johnson chairs the Board of Deacons at Union Baptist Church in Orange, NJ, and is married to Maxine Johnson, a lifelong educator. He is the author of The Race Trap, a Harper Collins Business Book which addresses the pitfalls commonly encountered in communications across the racial divide, and Strength for Their Journey, a guide for parents of African-American teens, published by Doubleday.
He was appointed to the University Hospital Board of Directors on July 1, 2013.
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- Acting Executive Director
- Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
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- Contracts Administrator
- Member of the Contract Management Team
Tanya Freeman is a partner in Weiner Lesniak, LLP, in Parsippany, New Jersey. Ms. Freeman focuses her law practice on family matters. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science cum laude from Caldwell College and her Juris Doctor cum laude from Touro Law School. Prior to joining her husband to practice law, Ms. Freeman spent fifteen years in banking and insurance in a variety of capacities directing operational audit teams.
In addition to the practice of law, Ms. Freeman devotes time to community efforts, which include her service as Chair to the Juvenile Justice/Family Court Subcommittee of the Hudson County Vicinage Minority Concerns Committee. Additionally, she previously served as a member of the Board of Directors, Salvation Army in Jersey City, New Jersey and a member of the Board of Directors for the University of Phoenix, Jersey City Campus. Ms. Freeman lives in West Orange with her husband and six children.
She was appointed to the University Hospital Board of Directors on September 22, 2014.
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- Management Assistant
- Management