Chief Innovation Officer
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Healh
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, New Jersey
Born and raised in New Jersey, and still a proud New Jerseyan!
I graduated from Union High School and subsequently Rutgers University. Completed Medical School at St. George's University, and completed residency in Emergency Medicine at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Last year, after 13 years at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in various leadership roles culminating in Department Chair, I accepted a new challenge to become the Chair of Emergency Medicine at Newark Beth Israel! It has been a wonderful homecoming!
My professional interests are in enhancing the patient experience, Emergency Department flow and operations, and the care of patients with Substance Use Disorder. We have come so far in the ED with cultural change aroud the treatment of substance use in general, as well as treatment of patients at varying stages of their illness. I have been a strong advocate for the last 5 years of early intervention in the ED, with a multimodal approach to the patient. In the Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health System, I have been incredibly fortunate to be on our Tackling Addiction Taskforce as well as the MAT Subcommittee. I initiated the first system-wide Buprenorphine tranining course in 2018, Since that time, I have worked with many of my colleagues to get more engaged in the global process, and at the very least, to obtain an X-waiver so that they are able to prescribe briging MAT prescriptions to our patients in need.
I currently reside in suburban central New Jersey with my wife, 2 sons and a french bulldog named Pippen.
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Sunday, April 3, 2022
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM ET
