Ranita Sharma, MD, MACP

Dr. Sharma is the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Education at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She serves as Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and holds the rank of Associate Professor of Medicine. Her clinical expertise is in the field of hospital medicine and her academic practice is based at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. In her role as executive vice chair, she leads committees, develops departmental policies and procedures, interfaces with organizational leadership across the institution, engages in the recruitment, retention and mentoring of faculty and assists the chair with the development of new programs. As chief of education and program director, she is engaged in curriculum development and innovation, structuring the training program and collaborating with clinical educators to ensure that accreditation and other requirements exceed expectations. Establishing transparency and trust in the context of teamwork are hallmarks of her leadership style.

David A. Cohen, MD, FACE, FACP, ECNU

Dr. Cohen is the Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Medicine. While clinically serving as a hospitalist, a general endocrinologist, and the Director of the Thyroid Nodule and Biopsy Clinic, Dr. Cohen is a true educator. His career has been built as an educator, from being a middle school teacher in Los Angeles prior to his career in medicine and receiving the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award, to the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education at Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Academic Leadership Program at Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences. He has also received many educational awards and spoken nationally on educational topics.

As the Vice Chair of Education, Dr. Cohen oversees the Department’s educational presence in Undergraduate, Graduate, and Continuing Medical Education. He is the Course Director for the Internal Medicine Sub-Internship, the Chair of the Fellowship Directors Committee, & the Chair of the Volunteer Appointments and Promotions Committee and the Grand Rounds Coordinator for the Department of Medicine. He also holds multiple educational leadership roles in national societies. In his free time, when he isn’t chasing his two daughters around, he pursues his research interests, both clinical and educational, particularly in the area of active learning and teaching techniques.

Payal Parikh, MD, FACP

Dr. Parikh is a clinician educator and an academic hospitalist whose passion lies in quality improvement and patient safety.  She was a RWJMS med student and completed her residency and chief residency at Boston University.  She returned back to RWJMS as faculty in 2015.  She is an avid educator, as evidenced by her induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and the multiple teaching awards she has received as faculty on the teaching services at RWJMS. 

As Vice Chair of Quality and Safety in the Department of Medicine, she works closely with the Department leadership and the faculty in directing the quality and safety initiatives throughout the department.  In this role, she chairs several case review committees, leads morbidity and mortality conferences, and regularly obtains and analyzes the quality metrics pertinent to the Department.  As a bridging leader, Dr. Parikh not only enjoys teaching the concepts related to safe healthcare delivery via faculty development and through the Internal Medicine Residency Health System Science Curriculum that she directs, but she promotes tangible change by engaging trainees in longitudinal projects linked to population health management and transitions of care, the interventions of which she then proposes to leadership to promote sustainable change at the institution.   She lives by the words of Cicero “To Err is Human, but to persevere in error is the act of a fool”.

Michael Steinberg, MD

Dr. Steinberg is Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) and Medical Director of the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies. He maintains an active research career in the areas of tobacco treatment interventions, has published over 75 peer-reviewed manuscripts, and has conducted studies funded by NCI, NIDA, RWJ Foundation, and the NJ Department of Health.

In his Departmental role as Vice-Chair for Research, he not only maintains his own research activities, but coordinates clinical research across the Department. A key aspect of research in an academic medical center is creating a network of collaboration and shared resources. Dr. Steinberg helps bring researchers in the Department of Medicine together with like-minded investigators throughout RWJMS and across other RBHS units. In addition to fostering funded researchers, the Vice-Chair’s role is to connect trainees interested in learning how to develop research skills with existing research projects and faculty mentors. Through this ongoing cycle of research expansion and training, the RWJMS Department of Medicine strives to develop both the innovations of today and the investigators of tomorrow.

Amy Tyberg, MD

Dr. Tyberg is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where she serves as Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs, Director of Therapeutic Endosonography and Associate Director of Endoscopy. She is board certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine. Dr. Tyberg received her undergraduate degree from Duke University, followed by her medical degree from New York Medical College. She completed internship and residency training at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center, followed by gastroenterology fellowship training at New York Medical College, and a therapeutic advanced endoscopy year at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Dr. Tyberg is honored to serve as Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the Department of Medicine. She is committed to the DOMs mission to provide excellent academic patient care and establish ourselves as an incomparable elite academic medical institution. She focuses on bringing this mission to the outpatient practice, emphasizing teaching, scholarly activity, and subspecialty care while also ensuring a patient-centered environment. Dr. Tyberg comes from a background of leadership roles, from the track team in high school and her sorority in college to associate director of endoscopy and director of therapeutic ultrasound here at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson. She is the newest member of the department of medicine leadership team, but is thrilled to be part of such a hard-working, dedicated, and innovative group of leaders.