 Fred M. Jacobs, M.D., J.D., Executive Vice President and Director of the Saint Barnabas Quality Institute of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, and former Commissioner of the New Jersey State Department of Health and Senior Services, will be named President of the Board of Trustees of New Jersey GASP, at the nonprofit’s annual member/guest dinner on September 5, 2008 at the Hilton Short Hills.
NJ GASP is a 34-year-old nonprofit, based in Summit, NJ. Its mission is smoke-free air for nonsmokers and tobacco free lives for children. NJ GASP serves as a resource on smoke-free initiatives in New Jersey as well as for other jurisdictions. Smoke-free restaurants and bars laws, and emerging trends of smoke-free casinos, smoke-free cars for children, and smoke-free housing, are the organization’s primary focus.
“We are honored that Dr. Jacobs will continue his commitment to smoke-free issues as President of our Board,” comments Karen Blumenfeld, Esq., the new Executive Director of NJ GASP, and Director of its Policy & Legal Resource Center for the past years. “It’s a testament to his collaborative efforts amongst government, industry, workers and health advocates. His fortitude as Health Commissioner helped New Jersey attain smoke-free workplaces and public places.”
Dr. Jacobs was appointed Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services by Acting Governor Richard J. Codey in December 2004 and reappointed by Governor Jon Corzine in 2006. He received his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and his MD from the University of Miami School of Medicine. He trained in internal medicine at Maimonides Medical Center and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and completed a pulmonary research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center and a Chief Residency in pulmonary disease at Kings County Hospital Center in New York. He is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians and the American College of Legal Medicine.
In 1969, Dr. Jacobs joined the staff at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey where he was Chief of Pulmonary Disease, Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit and was elected President of the Medical Staff in 1987. Subsequently, he became Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs at Saint Barnabas Medical Center, and later, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs for the Saint Barnabas Health Care System.
Dr. Jacobs graduated from Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey and is admitted to the Bar of the States of New Jersey and Florida. He was appointed to the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners by then Governor Thomas Kean in 1989 and was reappointed by Governor James Florio in 1993. He served as President of the Board from 1993 to 1995.
In addition to Dr. Jacobs, slated for the new Board of Trustees as NJ GASP are: Senator John Bennett, J.D., a 24-year veteran of the New Jersey State Legislature, and currently a partner at Dilworth Paxton, L.L.P., Dr. Neal Collins, Senior Medical Director of Pfizer’s Global Medical Oncology and Councilman and Board of Health member of Chatham, and NJ, Louis Rigamonti, an accountant with a 30-year diverse career in finance, cash management and accounting. Dr. Douglas Chester, D.D.S. remains on the Board as Immediate Past President.
The member/guest dinner is priced at $75 pp, $750 per table of ten. For more information on the dinner or becoming a member, please contact NJ GASP directly at 908-273-9368. RSVP/registration is due August 31.
The Saint Barnabas Health Care System is New Jersey's largest integrated health care delivery system. The System includes six acute-care facilities, more than 20,000 employees (second largest private employer in the state), 4,750 physicians (one-fourth of the state's practicing physicians) and 450 residents who provide treatment and services for more than two million patients annually: 225,000 inpatients and same day surgery patients, 451,000 Emergency Department patients and over 1.5 million outpatients, and 17,500 births. For more information about the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, please call 1-888-SBHS-123 or log on to our website, http://www.saintbarnabas.com.
August 28, 2008
Ellen Greene
VP, Public Relations, Saint Barnabas Health Care System
973-322-4018
Karen Blumenfeld, Esq.
Executive Director, NJ GASP
908-377-3900
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