JohnMHeathMDCMD AGSF

Summary

• I completed my Family Medicine residency in Erie, PA and a two-year Geriatric Medicine fellowship at the University of Cincinnati before joining the SUNY Upstate Medical Center 1988. In 1996 we moved our growing family from Syracuse to New Brunswick, NJ where I was program co-director of the geriatric medicine fellowship at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School for 15 years and served as Principal Investigator for the medical school's dementia clinical trials. In 2011 I left my RWJ tenured professorship faculty role, leaving academic medicine to establish the geriatric services division as chief of geriatrics within the private multispecialty Summit Medical Group in Berkeley Heights, NJ. After five productive years in that major clinical leadership role, I subsequently joined the Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington NJ to help expand that institution's subacute rehab facility linkages, assuming multiple medical directorships while performing consultative ambulatory dementia evaluations within their Center for Healthy Aging hospital.
  The devastating impact of COVID in my nursing homes traumatized me into reconnecting with academic medicine and I joined the geriatric medicine faculty of the Hackensack University Medical Center, based within the Neuroscience Institute's Center for Memory Loss and Brain Health for 2+ years. I have since retired from geriatric clinical work and serve as on-line core curriculum faculty teaching in the Certified Medical Director Certification program of the Post-Acute and Long-term Care Medical Association.