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August 15, 2007
Contact: Jerry Carey
Phone: (856) 566-6171
careyge@umdnj.edu
UMDNJ Physicians Named "Top Docs" by South Jersey Magazine
STRATFORD — More than 30 faculty members at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey have been named to the "Top Physicians 2007" list published in this month’s edition of South Jersey Magazine. The names of the UMDNJ faculty included in the list, along with their medical specialty, follows this release.
Dr. Thomas Cavalieri, the interim dean of the UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine and one of the "top physicians" interviewed by South Jersey Magazine, noted the qualities that go into the making of a great physician. "Along with excellence, a physician must bring to his or her practice a humanistic quality. That means they must be caring, compassionate, a good listener, and able to console when someone needs hope or is in distress," he said. "As a physician, you are taking care of mind, body and soul. I don’t think any other profession cares for people quite like that."
For its annual compilation of top physicians, South Jersey Magazine selects area physicians who are included in the Best Doctors 2005-2006 publication (www.Best.Doctors.com). Each year, Best Doctors collects up to 1.5 million evaluations from physicians throughout the country who are asked questions such as "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?" From those anonymous and confidential evaluations, Best Doctors selects the most highly rated physicians in more than 400 subspecialties of medicine. Overall, only five percent of the nation’s physicians are selected to be Best Doctors.
The following are the UMDNJ faculty included in the "Top Physicians 2007" list by South Jersey Magazine.
Anesthesiology
Michael E. Goldberg, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Cardiovascular Disease
Joseph E. Parrillo, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Zoltan G. Turi, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Perry Jay Weinstock, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Endocrinology and Metabolism
Ghada Haddad, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Gastroenterology
Adam B. Elfant, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Steven R. Peikin, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Hand Surgery
David A. Fuller, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Infectious Disease
John Baxter, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Henry Fraimow, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Internal Medicine
Thomas A. Cavalieri, UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine
Edward Viner, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Nephrology
Lawrence S. Weisberg, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Ron Zanger, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Neurology - Child
Gary McAbee, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Natali R. Franzblau, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Thomas F. Rocereto, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Orthopaedic Surgery
Eric L. Hume, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Robert F. Ostrum, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Bharati T. Mithani, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Pediatric Specialist/Abused Children
Martin Finkel, UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine
Pediatrics
Cynthia DeLago, UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine
April Douglass-Bright, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Lori Beth Feldman-Winter, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
William R. Graessle, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
William G. Sharrar, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Psychiatry
Thomas S. Newmark, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Pulmonary and Critical Care
R. Phillip Dellinger, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Melvin R. Pratter, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Surgery
James B. Alexander, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Surgical Oncology
Umur Atabek, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Urology
Joel L. Marmar, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Raul O. Parra, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is the nation's largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,500 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and its only school of public health, on five campuses. Last year, there were more than two million patient visits to UMDNJ facilities and faculty at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a mental health and addiction services network.
