UMDNJ Trustees Approve Dean for Stratford Medical School
Dr. Thomas A. Cavalieri, of Mullica Hill, will head School of Osteopathic Medicine
“I’m honored and humbled by the confidence that the Board of Trustees and President Owen have placed in me, and excited by the challenge of leading UMDNJ-SOM,” Dr. Cavalieri said. “Our vision and our mission at the school are clear. We seek to become the country’s best osteopathic medical school and to provide New Jersey and our nation with clinically skillful, compassionate and culturally competent physicians from diverse backgrounds. I’m looking forward to working with our school’s students, faculty and staff - as well as with the many talented people at, Kennedy Health System, our principal hospital partner, and our other academic and clinical affiliates - in pursuit of those goals.”
Dr. Cavalieri, a nationally recognized leader in geriatric healthcare and education, is the founding director of the medical school’s acclaimed New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging. His guidance of the geriatric health and education programs at the UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine has resulted in the school being selected for eight consecutive years as one of the nation’s top schools for geriatric medical education by U.S. News & World Report.
UMDNJ is the nation’s largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,500 students attending the state’s three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and its only school of public health, on five campuses.
