School of Nursing Convocation
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
11:00am – NJPAC – 1 Center St, Newark, NJ
2022 Convocation Speaker
DENISE V. RODGERS, MD, FAAFP

the UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Dr. Rodgers has spent much of her career working with poor, minority and disadvantaged patients and communities. She currently chairs the steering committee for the Believe in a Healthy Newark culture of health initiative that is funded by RWJF/
New Jersey Health Initiatives. She chairs the board of directors for the Healthy Greater Newark Medicaid ACO and is a member of the board of the Greater Newark Healthcare Coalition. From October 2016 to April 2017 she served as interim director of the Newark Department of Health and Community Wellness.
Prior to joining UMDNJ, Dr. Rodgers was professor and vice chair in the University of California, San Francisco Department of Family and Community Medicine and director of the San Francisco General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. She also served as family medicine Chief of Service at SFGH. From 1994 to 1996 she served as Chief of Staff at San Francisco General Hospital. In this role she was also a member of the executive leadership team for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
In 1999, Dr. Rodgers was elected to be the inaugural chair of the DHHS HRSA Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry, a role she held until 2003. In 2001, Dr. Rodgers was elected president of the Society of Teachers
of Family Medicine (STFM) and in 2009, she was awarded the STFM Recognition Award. Dr. Rodgers is currently a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Medical Center Leaders Caucus, having previously served on the
AAMC Advisory Panel on Health Care.
Dr. Rodgers received a Bachelor of Arts in psychobiology from Oberlin College and graduated from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She completed her family medicine training in the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
Dr. Rodgers is board certified in family medicine and is a diplomate of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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The 2022 Grand Marshall for Convocation on May 18th 2022 was Dr. Barbara Caldwell.
The 2022 student recipient of the 2022 Stanley S. Bergen Medal of Excellence was Melinda Moyer DNP, FNP-BC, RN, CCRN, FN-CSA.
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