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50 Robert WoodJohnson

MEDICINE

hen I became dean of Robert
Wood Johnson Medical School,

I was not handed a strategic plan or
even a set of goals. However, what I was
given was invaluable. That was a cul-
tural heritage developed and nurtured
from the first dean, DeWitt Stetten Jr.,
through his successors to my predeces-

sor, Dick Reynolds. The culture empha-
sized respect for excellence rather than
size, a real commitment to addressing

societal needs, and above all, placing
great value upon personal and institu-
tional integrity. Thus, it was OK to be
small but good in our scholarship. We
served the community, for example, by

recognizing that the two hospitals in
New Brunswick were unable to provide
adequate primary care to low-income
people and by developing and operating
the Chandler Health Center, then the
only federally qualified health center

sponsored by a medical school. We
served society by responding to the
AAMC call for "3000 by 2000" and
establishing programs that brought us
near the top of the list, nationwide, in

the diversity of our medical students. I
note with some dismay that one of the
key elements of that initiative, the fed-
eral HCOP grants, seems slated for
oblivion in the current budget cycle.

We also heeded the call for enhancing
adult primary care and, quite early on,
developed strong programs in general
internal medicine and family medicine.

Our commitment to personal and in-

stitutional integrity brought us un-

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2 0 0 2

Jessica Blume

practices at Bergen

County Medical Associates.

2 0 0 3

The Princeton Spine and Joint Center was
formed by

Grant Cooper

and

Ana

Bracilovic, MD '04

Danielle Perret Karimi

writes: "I was

appointed associate dean for graduate
medical education at the University of
California, Irvine School of Medicine. My
primary faculty appointment is neuro-
surgery/physical medicine and rehabilita-
tion. I am busy with 1- and 3-year-old
boys at home. I absolutely love medical
education/medical administration and am
so blessed to be entrusted with a leader-
ship role relatively junior in my career."

2 0 0 4

Neonatologist

Rebecca Deeley

prac-

tices at the Special Care Nursery in The
Birthplace at Faxton St. Luke's Healthcare,
in Utica, New York.

Radiologist

Sunita Nankoo

is a mem-

ber of the medical staff of Riverview
Medical Center and Bayshore Community
Hospital.

Phillip Seibell

is a member of the

medical staff at Wisconsin-based Rogers
Behavioral HealthTampa Bay. He com-
pleted his residency in general psychiatry
at Mount Sinai Hospital and was the pri-
mary psychiatrist for obsessive-compulsive
disorder and related conditions at the
Center of Excellence at the Mount Sinai
School of Medicine.

2 0 0 5

Anesthesiologist

Bao Chau Minh

Tran

is the CEO of BCT Medical

Associates in New Jersey.

2 0 0 6

Keith Baldwin

practices pediatric

orthopedics at the CHOP Specialty Care
Center of the Children's Hospital of
Pennsylvania in Princeton.

Dermatologist

Jennifer Tan

practices at

NorthStar Dermatology in Keller, Texas.
She completed her residency at the Harvard
Combined Dermatology Residency Training
Program and served as chief resident.

2 0 0 8

Abhishek Aphale

practices dermatol-

ogy in Elmer, N.J.

Sujoy Menon

practices radiology at

CarePoint Health in Hudson County.

Jennifer Vazquez-Bryan

practices at

the Orange Regional Medical Group
Department of Primary Care.

2 0 1 2

Michael Yang

and Kesi Chen, MD,

were married in September 2014. He is a
third-year family medicine resident at
Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia.

2 0 1 4

Jennifer Reese

and John Cheever were

married in June. She is an intern at Mount
Sinai Hospital in New York.

F o r m e r R e s i d e n t s

Jana Janco

was recently elected as the

delegate of the American Medical
Association Women Physicians Section.

J. Christopher Mendler

was

appointed medical director of HNH
Fitness, Holy Name Medical Center's
medically based fitness center in Oradell.

I n M e m o r i a m

Stanley Hegg, MMS '70, MD

Robert Rosado, MD '76

passed away on November 21, 2014.

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