Louis F. Amorosa, MD

Affiliations

• Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

Education and Training

• Undergraduate: University of Notre Dame 1965
• Medical School:  Rutgers New Jersey Medical School – 1969
• Internal Medicine Residency and Fellowship
• Bronx Municipal Hospital Center 1972
• Chief Resident: Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn  1973
• Endocrinology Fellowship: Mt Sinai Hospital, NY, 1975

Honors and and Awards

• Honorary Alumni Award 2016
• Department of Medicine Educator of the year (Endocrinology) 2021, 2024
• American Cancer Society Honoree 2025

Biography

Dr. Amorosa became a physician educator at the new Rutgers Medical School in Piscataway    in 1975.  He has experienced all the richness of a career in medicine: the care of challenging and grateful patients; formal and bedside teaching of students and trainees; basic and clinical studies with insulin and other new drugs; and intervals of leadership. He has been an advisor to the NJ Department of Health.  He has been privileged by his long association with members of the Rutgers basic and clinical science faculties and by all the physicians he has helped to train.  Between 1972 and 1988, Dr.  Amorosa passed four certifying examinations in his specialties.  In recognition of his motivation, the American Board of Internal Medicine has certified him to the year 3000.

Clinical Interests

Care of patients with type 2 diabetes and disorders of thyroid and calcium.                                              

Publications

• Insulin-Dependent Regulation of mTORC2-Akt-FoxO Suppresses TLR4 Signaling in Human Leukocytes: Relevance to Type 2 Diabetes. Zhiyong , Zhang , Louis F Amorosa, Marie A Macor ¹, Morris J Birnbaum , Leonard Y Lee, Beatrice Haimovich 

 PMID: 27207509

• Proteolytic cleavage of AMPKα and intracellular MMP9 expression are both required for TLR4-Mediated mTORC1 activation and HIF-1α expression in leukocytes. Zhang Z, Amorosa LF, Coyle SM, Macor MA, Lubitz SE, Carson JL, Birnbaum MJ, Lee LY, Haimovich B.  PMID: 26232429
• TLR4 counteracts BVRA signaling in human leukocytes via differential regulation of AMPK, mTORC1 and mTORC2. Zhiyong Zhang,  Louis F Amorosa , Anna Petrova , Susette Coyle , Marie Macor, Mohan Nair, Leonard Y Lee¹, Beatrice Haimovich  PMID: 31065010

Biography Link:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=louis+amorosa