Resident Life

Intern Meet & Greet

Intern Retreat

Scholarly Activity

Graduation

Restaurant recommendations

• Newark - Sol-Mar Restaurant
• Montclair - Cuban Pete’s, Ani Ramen House
• Jersey City - Uncle Momo, Fire & Oak
• Fort Lee - So Kong Dong, Bada Story, Kura Revolving Sushi Bar, Gopchang Story
• NYC

Sol-Mar in the Ironbound District of Newark

Cuban Pete’s outdoor seating in Montclair, NJ

Festivals

• Cherry Blossom Festival
• Fourth of July Festival

Cherry blossoms in the Branch Brook Park, Newark

Outdoor activities

• Site-seeing - Broadway and Times square, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Empire State
• Building, One World Trade Center, Rockefeller Center
• Hiking - South Mountain Reserve, Bear mountain, Palisades Park, Central Park, Delaware Water Gap, Rocky mountains/Appalachian trail, Mt. Tammany
• Sports - Metlife stadium
• Turtleback Zoo
• Canoeing/kayaking
• Pick-your-own farms
• Gardens - Queens botanical garden, Grounds for Sculpture, Duke Farms, Longwood gardens
• Beaches - Asbury Park, Sandy Hook

Turtle Back Zoo, just minutes away from Cooperman Barnabas Hospital!

Bear Mountain in New York has some of the best views

The famous Rat’s Restaurant in Grounds for Sculpture in Jersey

The current intern class out on the Jersey City Waterfront

Some of our program leadership and residents at a Yankees’ game

Our residents making the midnight premiere of the Barbie movie

Past and current chiefs working together to reach for the highest apple they could find at last year’s apple picking trip

Intern of the Year

Chosen by Residents

• 2023 – Yazan Abboud, MD
• 2022 – (tie) Angel Chen, MD and Juan Bello Duverge, MD
• 2021 – Anmol Mittal, MD
• 2020 – (tie) Hyein Jeon, MD and Mark Forsberg, MD
• 2019 – Abdul Rehman, MD
• 2018 – Barbara Danek, MD

Outstanding Professionalism

Chosen by Residents

• 2023 – Anmol Mittal, MD, MBA
• 2022 – Mark Forsberg, MD
• 2021 – Mark Forsberg, MD
• 2020 – (tie) Ryan Golden, MD and Yasaman Motlaghzadeh, MD
• 2019 – Ryan Golden, MD

Excellence in Clinical Skills

Chosen by Residents

• 2023 – Milos Brankovic, MD
• 2022 – (tie) Mark Forsberg, MD and Afif Hossain, MD
• 2021 – Abdul Rehman, MBBS
• 2020 – Abdul Rehman, MBBS
• 2019 – Rastko Rakocevic, MD
• 2018 – Rastko Rakocevic, MD

Best Teaching Resident

Chosen by Residents for demonstrating Excellence in Teaching

• 2023 – Majd Hemam, MD
• 2022 – Afif Hossain, MD
• 2021 – Nebojsa Markovic, MD
• 2020 – Nebojsa Markovic, MD
• 2019 – Yasaman Motlaghzadeh, MD
• 2018 – Piyumika deSilva, MD

Most Humanistic Resident

Chosen by Residents for exhibiting the highest standards of Humanism in Medicine

• 2023 – Julia Ramadhar, MD
• 2022 – Nikita Tangella, MD
• 2021 – (tie) Mansi Patel, MD and Majd Hemam, MD
• 2020 – Laura Rotundo, MD
• 2019 – Rastko Rakocevic, MD
• 2018 – Eman Rashed, MD

Most Scholarly Resident

Chosen by Residents for exhibiting the most keen Intellect and/or demonstrating Excellence in Research

• 2023 – Yazan Abboud, MD
• 2022 – Anmol Mittal, MD
• 2021 – Willy Roque, MD
• 2020 – Willy Roque, MD
• 2019 – Aris Karatasakis, MD
• 2018 – Hyun-seok Kim, MD

Best Teaching Fellow

Chosen by Residents for demonstrating Excellence in Teaching

• 2023 – Afif Hossain, MD
• 2022 – (tie) Inderjit Singh, MD (Cardiology), Jaewook Shin, MD (Cardiology), Avalon Mertens, MD (Pulm/Crit)
• 2021 – Brijesh Patel, MD
• 2020 – Brijesh Patel, MD
• 2019 – Alyssa Berns, DO
• 2018 – Adebayo Olusanya, MD

Best Teaching Attending at University Hospital

Chosen by Residents for demonstrating Excellence in Teaching

• 2023 – Piyumika De Silva, MD
• 2022 – Daniel Matassa, MD
• 2021 – Daniel Matassa, MD
• 2020 – Yonatan Greenstein, MD
• 2019 – Daniel Matassa, MD
• 2018 – Daniel Matassa, MD

Best Teaching Attending at the East Orange VA Hospital

Chosen by Residents for demonstrating Excellence in Teaching

• 2023 – Slawomir Sender, MD
• 2022 – Slawomir Sender, MD
• 2021 – Slawomir Sender, MD
• 2020 – Slawomir Sender, MD
• 2019 – (tie) Jason George, MD and Victor Chang, MD
• 2018 – Slawomir Sender, MD

Best Teaching Attending at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center

Chosen by Residents for demonstrating Excellence in Teaching

• 2022 – Parth Patel, MD
• 2022 – Sunil Sapru, MD
• 2021 – Sunil Sapru, MD