DIVISION LEADERSHIP 

Vivien M. Hsu, MD, Rutgers-RWJMS Rheumatology DIvision Chief, and Director, Rutgers- RWJMS Scleroderma Program

David Roofeh, MD, Rutgers RWJMS Rheumatology Fellowship Program Director

DIVISION FACULTY MEMBERS 

Our faculty members have strong local reputations, and many are nationally and internationally renowned. Our faculty have great enthusiasm for a wide range of rheumatologic disorders.

Dr. Vivien Hsu is Board Certified in Rheumatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and licensed as a physician by the State of New Jersey since 1992. She is a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Rheumatology. She has a special interest in managing a rare, complex group of connective tissue diseases, including scleroderma, which typically affects women during their prime years of life.

Her expertise is to understand and manage the many organ complications due to scleroderma as early as possible. She is considered a scleroderma expert in the tri-state area, and the institution, Rutgers-RWJ Medical School, is a referral center listed with national organizations such as the Scleroderma Foundation. She has collaborated with other experts across the US and worldwide to develop better treatment options for this incurable group of diseases. As Program Director for the Rutgers- RWJ Rheumatology Fellowship Program, she takes great pride in mentoring and teaching her clinical and research skills to the next generation of physicians. Dr. Hsu is the current President of the NJ Rheumatology Association.  She was the recipient of the Faculty Teaching Award (2017), and has been nominated by her peers as Best Doctors in America (since 2012) and NJ Top Doctor (2018).

Associate Professors of Medicine:

Seema Malkana, DO

Dr. Seema Malkana received her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Psychology from Cornell University in 2004. She worked in internal consulting before pursuing her medical degree from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine (formerly the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey), where she was the inaugural recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award “in recognition of exemplary compassion, competence, and respect in the delivery of care” in 2015 and became a lifelong inductee into the Gold Humanism Honor Society upon graduation. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency training at Temple University Hospital in 2018, where the medical students recognized her dedication to teaching with the I.W. Ginsberg Award for Outstanding Housestaff Educator. Dr Malkana joined Rutgers RWJMS and the Division of Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Research after completing her Rheumatology fellowship at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY.

Dr. Malkana’s clinical expertise includes diagnosis and management of a wide range of rheumatologic conditions, including giant cell arteritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, medium and small vessel vasculitis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren’s syndrome, myositis, spondyloarthritis, systemic sclerosis, crystal arthritides, and IgG4-related disease. Her professional responsibilities also include teaching and mentoring for Rutgers RWJMS medical students and housestaff, who selected her to receive an Educator of the Year award in 2021. She has worked with the ACR’s Continuing Education Assessment Review Evaluation (CARE) program, and serves as Treasurer of the New Jersey Rheumatology Association.

Marie-Claire Maroun, MD

Assistant Professors of Medicine:

David Roofeh, MD

Dr. Roofeh received his BA in Philosophy and Psychology (Hons) from New York University, his MD from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University, and completed residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College-Thomas Jefferson University/Christiana Care Health System. He completed his adult Rheumatology Program at the University of Michigan and extended his training on a T32 grant under the supervision of Dr. Dinesh Khanna, to specialize in scleroderma-spectrum disorders and interstitial lung disease.

Dr. Roofeh served as the Associate Program Director at the University of Michigan prior to his transfer to Rutgers-RWJ. He assumed the position as Director of the Rheumatology Training Program at Rutgers-Robert Woods Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, starting August 2023.

His research interest is in scleroderma clinical trials and his academic focus centers on building a collaborative on-line learning platform for rheumatology fellows and interested residents/medical students.

Suzana Morgan, MD

Dr. Suzana Morgan is Board Certified in Rheumatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and licensed as a physician by the State of New Jersey since 2009. She is a Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology, American Medical Association and Association of Women in Rheumatology. She has a special interest in managing a complex group of inflammatory arthritis and connective tissue diseases, including Rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, Gout, polymyalgia Rheumatica, Giant Cell arteritis, Ankylosing spondylitis, Systemic Lupus erythematosus, sarcoid arthropathy, ANCA associated vasculitis, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and scleroderma. She also treats patients who suffer from all types of joint pain due to osteoarthritis, mechanical neck and back pain, as well as fibromyalgia. Some of these conditions greatly impacts young patients, males and females, during their prime years of life, while others affect elderly populations during their golden age of retirement. Her expertise is to manage these painful conditions that deprive patients from enjoying their healthy life style, as well as understand and manage the many organ complications of these conditions. Dr Morgan takes a great pride in mentoring and teaching her clinical skills to the next generation of physicians. She also takes a great pride in the love of her patients, to whom she provides the best care possible, in all aspects, physical and emotional. Dr Morgan won the “Compassionate Doctor Recognition Award 2014” and “Patient’s Choice Award 2018” She has been nominated by her peers as one of “NJ Top Doctors” and by “Women in medicine” as “Top Rheumatologist” in 2023

Jammie Law, MD

Jammie Law M.D. is a board certified rheumatologist and currently Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Connective Tissue Research. She completed medical school at Albert Einstein College of Medicine with additional research experience in frailty markers in critically ill older adults. She trained in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center graduating with special distinction in Medical Education. At Montefiore, she co-built clinical registries in a diverse urban population of patients with inflammatory myositis and cardiovascular complications of systemic lupus erythematous with subsequent peer reviewed presentations. She continued her rheumatology fellowship training at NYU Grossman School of Medicine with additional research training in lupus clinical trial design, disease assessment tools, and vaccinations in rheumatic patients. She was drawn to rheumatology to empower patients with individualized evidence-based treatment plans and to provide compassionate and collaborative multi-specialty care. She joined Rutgers faculty with clinical interests in healthcare disparities, connective tissue disease such as systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjogren’s Disease, and inflammatory myositis, medical education, reproductive health in rheumatic diseases, and integrative rheumatology. She is bilingual and practices in both English and Cantonese.