Carol A. Terregino, MD

Carol A. Terregino, MD is Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Academic Affairs.  She completed her undergraduate and post-baccalaureate education at Rutgers-The State University, majoring in Latin and secondary education.   She graduated summa cum laude as an inductee into Phi Beta Kappa and into in the education honor society Kappa Delta Pi, which portended how her career in medicine would come full circle.  She graduated from RWJMS in 1986 where she was elected into Alpha Omega Alpha in her junior year and then trained at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for residency and fellowship in internal medicine and emergency medicine, respectively.  

Her expertise and research interests are in undergraduate medical education. She thrives on innovation and has led curricular reform and the adoption of new modalities such as admissions selection processes, patient centered medicine.  She served as the faculty lead for the 2018 LCME accreditation site visit and is the faculty lead for the integration activities between RWJMS and New Jersey Medical School. She was a Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) field secretary, has been a member of the AAMC Innovation Lab Working Group of the MR5 Committee, served on the MCAT Validity Study Group and is a grant recipient of the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium.   Dr. Terregino is a 2007 graduate of the Hedwig Van Amerigan Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women, received the 2013 Edward J. Ill Outstanding Medical Educator Award, received the 2019 RWJMS. Distinguished Alumnus Award and is the recipient of the Richard A. Harvey PhD Excellence in Teaching Endowment. She received the Accelerating Change for Medical Education Innovation Award in 2025. She is the founding Director for the RWJMS Institute for Excellence in Education.  Additionally, Dr. Terregino is responsible for faculty development and mentoring activities to support faculty as they prepare the upcoming physician workforce. 

Medical School:  Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 1986 

Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 1989 

Fellowship: General Internal Medicine & Emergency Medicine 1990 

• Phi Beta Kappa – Honor Society in Education (1978)

• Kappa Delta Pi – Honors in Teaching (1978)

• Nancy Higginson Dorr Award (1979)

• Summa Cum Laude, Douglass College – Rutgers, The State University (1979)

• Alpha Omega Alpha – Excellence in Research (1985)

• American College of Emergency Physicians (1997)

• Fellow, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (2006–2007)

• Harvard Macy Institute Program for Leading Innovations in Health Care & Education (2009)

• Innovation Award – Pre-Clerkship, Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (2009)

• Edward J. Ill Outstanding Medical Educator Award (2013)

• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (2019)

• Innovation Award, AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education (2025)