The Department at a Glance

  • We are New Jersey’s oldest, & one of the country’s largest family medicine & community health departments, with more than 80 outstanding full & part-time paid faculty members, & more than 250 volunteer faculty throughout New Jersey.
  • Our accomplished faculty include five New Jersey and one National Family Physician of the Year awardees, four University Master Educators, one Rutgers Distinguished and two named Professors, six associate/assistant Deans, & two University Vice Chancellors.
  • With a quality of care & primary care translational research agenda, department external NIH funding is among the top schools nationally. We are home for the community core of the Rutgers, Princeton, & NJ Institute of Technology Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA).
  • Our extensive research and education collaborations include affiliations with multiple Institutes and schools within Rutgers, and external work with organizations throughout the country including the NJ Healthcare Quality Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Larry Green Center, and many others.
  • Our New Jersey Primary Care Research Network, an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recognized Practice Based Research Network (PBRN) with 150 practices, cares for an estimated 550,000 citizens yearly, & undertakes patient centered translational research.
  • We are New Jersey’s Healthcare Innovation Lab, (e.g. birthplace of Robert Wood Johnson Partners ACO, major research studies on Patient Centered Medical Homes and health system change) bringing Rutgers resources to solve healthcare challenges for the nation.
  • The department’s Center for Healthy Families & Cultural Diversity is world renowned for its educational offerings, & our Center for Healthy Aging provides advanced education, research & clinical care in geriatrics.
  • We teach required courses in all years of the medical school, run 2 outstanding Family Medicine Residencies: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH)/ New Brunswick and Centrastate Medical Center/ Freehold, and provide advanced leadership training for many disciplines and trainees.
  • Our residency graduates practice nationwide, with 250 serving New Jersey, many in underserved communities.
  • The department’s Rutgers Network of Affiliated Family Medicine Residencies, the nation’s oldest residency educational network, provides collaborative offerings in eight New Jersey teaching hospitals & affiliated outpatient sites.
  • Our collaborative Research Fellowships provide opportunities in many areas for postdoctoral fellows in health services research. Our Clinical Fellowships are in Geriatrics, Sports Medicine, & Reproductive Health.
  • We provide advanced Clinical Care to more than 100,000 patients/year throughout central New Jersey: in patients’ homes, in outpatient offices including clinics serving the poor, & in affiliated hospitals, post-acute, long-term care, & assisted living facilities. Our Hospital Medicine division faculty and staff care for more than 150 seriously ill patients daily in RWJUH, including those admitted to the Cancer Institute of New Jersey service line.
  • As the academic home of Community Health for the school, the department’s activities extend from care in federally qualified health centers (FQHC’s) in New Brunswick (Eric B. Chandler Health Center) and Freehold (Freehold Family Health Center), to educational systems, governments, businesses, & communities throughout New Jersey.
  • Our Global Health center works with universities across the world and provides opportunities for research collaborations internationally.
  • The newly established Parker division of Geriatrics received a bequest of $19M to expand research, education, and clinical service in communities throughout the country.
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