Acito runs the full scope of nursing and patient care at Holy Name, spanning critical care, surgical services, inpatient care and telemedicine. She works closely with administrative and physician leadership to keep safety and quality initiatives sharp across the medical center.
A longtime Atlantic leader with deep operational chops, he’s focused on expanding access in Warren and Sussex counties — strengthening emergency services, upgrading surgical and imaging capabilities, and pushing care closer to home for rural patients who often have fewer options.
Anderson has spent his RWJBH tenure knitting together a 2,500-provider medical group, expanding population health work and redesigning primary care across more than 120 practice sites. His lean initiatives in laboratory, radiology and blood-product use have already trimmed more than $5 million in annual spending while shortening hospital stays.
Arnold wears two hats at RWJBarnabas Health: CEO in New Brunswick and president of the system’s Southern Region, which covers Monmouth Medical Center, Monmouth South and Community Medical Center. He’s leading the push to integrate those programs around quaternary care — cardiovascular, trauma, neuroscience and organ transplantation.
Atir leads the diagnostic operations that anchor Bergen New Bridge’s clinical care, driving quality, innovation and access. Her team earned global recognition for advancing cervical-cancer screening through HPV genotyping and patient self-collection — a model improving outcomes and equity for women across North Jersey.
Bayoumy runs day-to-day operations across Kessler’s four hospital campuses, with his hand on everything from clinical quality and safety to regulatory compliance, financial management and the organization’s growth strategy.
A 25-year Valley veteran, Bhavsar provides operational leadership across the system, with a portfolio that spans margin enhancement, the push toward becoming a high-reliability organization, information systems and facilities. Valley has long been a Top 10 hospital in the state.
Brunnquell has been instrumental in expanding Englewood Health’s regional presence, leading the Physician Network — one of the largest in northern New Jersey with more than 800 providers across over 100 locations. A practicing internist and an ordained Roman Catholic priest, he received the Englewood Health Foundation’s 2026 Touchstone Award, its highest philanthropic distinction.
Buccellato leads a medical center that’s a fixture among the state’s top 10 hospitals, with particular strength in pediatrics — JSUMC is home to the state’s first Level 1 pediatric trauma center verified by the American College of Surgeons.
Charlton, a former AtlantiCare board chair turned CEO, has spent 2026 building out AtlantiCare’s academic footprint: in May, the system formalized a deal with Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine to open a regional campus in Atlantic City, and struck a companion alliance with Stockton University to launch the Stockton-AtlantiCare College of Community Health.
Cohen brings a global-health lens to the job, shaped by her work with the World Health Organization. She’s steered Englewood’s clinical strategy toward population health and preventive care, with a particular focus on health disparities and the social determinants of health at what is now a top five hospital in the state.
Doll runs day-to-day operations at RWJBH and chairs the system’s strategic planning council across every service line, including the recent integration of behavioral health with Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care. RWJBH has two of the top ten hospitals in the state.
He recently was named chief hospital executive at Riverview Medical Center, where he’s steering roughly $60 million in capital projects, including a 50% expansion and reorganization of the emergency department as the Red Bank hospital marches toward its 100th anniversary in 2028.
Foley oversees clinical strategy and operations across HMH’s specialty hospitals — Carrier Clinic, the Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, the Long Term Acute Care Hospital at Raritan Bay — along with nursing, rehabilitation, pharmacy, imaging and the system’s transfer center.
Ghinassi leads one of the nation’s largest academic behavioral-health systems, overseeing UBHC’s statewide network of inpatient units, outpatient programs, addiction services, crisis lines, Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers, correctional health, research and training. He also directs RWJBarnabas Health’s behavioral-health and addictions strategy, advancing fully integrated, interdisciplinary care across New Jersey.
Since joining Hackensack Meridian Health in 2020, he’s helped elevate the system’s profile through high-impact public relations campaigns and executive communications that support major initiatives — from leadership restructurings to clinical expansions — across the HMH footprint.
With a 50-plus-member team of community health workers serving Newark, Jersey City, West Orange and New Brunswick, Grewal-Virk is driving major health-equity initiatives, including a new Retail Pharmacy and Food “Farmacy” with Saint James Health and an 8,000-square-foot Newark food hub launching in 2025 to bring fresh produce directly into schools, pantries and community centers.
Always a power player, Helmy’s recently expanding scope of influence now includes government affairs and public policy; internal and external corporate communications; community health and social impact; regulatory affairs and system planning; philanthropy and grants; and sponsorships and partnerships.
Holecek sets nursing strategy for a workforce of more than 11,000 across RWJBH, with her hands in everything from fiscal planning to patient satisfaction and care coordination.
Jovin, one of the nation’s first interventional neurologists, treats the full range of stroke and cerebrovascular disease using minimally invasive techniques for conditions from carotid stenosis to brain aneurysms.
Leighty, a Yale-trained molecular biophysicist with a Kellogg MBA, oversees operations for Atlantic Health’s hospitals, service lines and post-acute network, driving system-wide standardization and integration. He’s known for market repositioning strategies and lean-inspired performance gains in safety, quality, patient experience and margin — work that underpins Atlantic’s perennial top rankings and its push toward value-based care.
Libutti is architecting a unified, statewide oncology program across RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers. The opening of the Melchiorre Cancer Center marks the latest milestone in his “many doors, one program” vision, expanding access to precision medicine, advanced technology and coordinated cancer care for patients across New Jersey.
Lienhardt pairs a legal background with two decades in health care to build alignment structures for RWJBH’s growth — competitive, compliant and, by her account, unlike anything else in the market.
Among so many other duties and responsibilities, Lozano is the design mind behind HMH’s new Metropark hub, a hospitality-grade space built to reconnect staff with mission and calm the patient experience. He pushed for natural light, breathing-pattern architecture and a mezzanine meant for community — a building, as he puts it, “that breathes.”
Lynch, who has been with Inspira Health since 2002, has been instrumental in the development and expansion of behavioral health services for children and adolescents, including the successful launch of Inspira’s Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program in 2014 and the Autism Diagnostic Center in 2023.
Margolis shapes Atlantic Health’s messaging across media, crisis communications, brand reputation and executive visibility in the public and among key leaders — and does it with a unique background. A former News 12 New Jersey reporter and senior communications official in the Senate Majority Office, he understands how news and information can be disseminated with maximum impact and influence.
Markoe runs HR for a workforce of more than 40,000, leading the “One HR” transformation initiative that’s reshaping how the system’s people processes work as it grows.
McCauley keeps HMH’s sprawling set of simultaneous initiatives — inside the hospital walls and out — moving in the same direction, a job that helps explain why the system racks up so many accolades.
Moore, a recent appointee to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Economic and Community Advisory Council, runs operations across Inspira’s four hospitals and ambulatory network, including the ongoing $257 million expansion at Inspira Medical Center Mullica Hill.
O’Keefe leads a hospital that’s a perennial top finisher in the state — it ranked No. 2 in New Jersey and No. 9 in the New York City metro area in the latest U.S. News rankings, with top marks in orthopedics and gastroenterology.
Perlin has rapidly built CDI into a powerhouse of biomedical research, expanding to 33 laboratories and more than 200 scientists and staff in under five years. Backed by 126 grants and contracts, including 65 from the NIH, he’s positioned CDI as a national leader in infectious-disease science, diagnostics and translational innovation.
Pipas is the senior finance executive for a system that delivers care to eight counties and roughly 5 million people, harmonizing financial processes across facilities to support RWJBH’s unified operating model.
Riccio, who holds both an M.D. and an MBA, keeps St. Joseph’s moving on two fronts at once — expanding technology and recently opening a new healing center — while staying rooted in the system’s Catholic, faith-based mission.
Rubino, a Rutgers-trained attorney and former deputy mayor of Ewing Township, brings more than 30 years of communications and marketing experience to Cooper, where he oversees internal and external messaging, advertising, public relations, social media and physician outreach. Since joining in 2016, he’s helped position and protect the Cooper brand through integrated campaigns and crisis communications.
Sable is charged with setting current and long-range objectives for HMH’s acute-care footprint — aligning quality, access and growth strategies across the network — while continuing to champion smart systems, virtual care and ambulatory expansion to keep patients in the right setting at the right time.
Schneider, a nationally recognized nursing and operations leader, moved in 2026 from the presidency of Chilton Medical Center to serve as interim president and CEO at CentraState Medical Center. At Chilton, she led the hospital to Magnet nursing recognition and repeated Leapfrog “A” grades.
Seel has reshaped how Atlantic County responds to mental illness and addiction. A systems-builder with deep clinical expertise, she drives evidence-based, cross-sector solutions that expand access, improve outcomes and reduce stigma. Her leadership, collaboration and credibility have transformed care delivery and saved lives across South Jersey.
Dr. Selman is transforming how older adults receive emergency care at Cooper. Under her leadership, Cooper University Hospital earned Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation from the American College of Emergency Physicians, recognizing the organization’s commitment to specialized, evidence-based care for seniors.
Sickles leads a safety-net teaching hospital marking 10 years of renewal, earning repeated Leapfrog “A” grades and a coveted Top Hospital designation. He has expanded advanced cardiac, stroke and infectious-disease programs while modernizing facilities, strengthening Saint Michael’s role as a vital lifeline for Newark.
Simon has been the voice behind Inspira Health’s stories for more than three decades, managing media relations, messaging and crisis communications across the South Jersey network. A University of Maryland–trained journalist and former photojournalist, he brings a reporter’s eye to health care communications — documenting Inspira’s growth, major capital projects and community partnerships while helping leadership navigate high-stakes moments with clear, grounded public messaging.
Sorkin oversees one of New Jersey’s busiest emergency departments, bringing more than two decades of frontline and leadership experience in high-acuity care, EMS oversight and emergency-preparedness. His work strengthens Bergen New Bridge’s expanding emergency-medicine capabilities and its role as a critical safety-net provider.
Sparta became COO in 2025, taking charge of operations across 18 hospitals, ambulatory services, real estate and system-wide clinical service lines. He is the former chief hospital executive at the state’s top hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center, where he helped drive development of the Helena Theurer Pavilion and expand urgent care and ambulatory footprints.
Over nearly 25 years at Hackensack, she has served as chief medical officer and geriatrics chief, helping the hospital earn New Jersey’s No. 1 adult and children’s hospital rankings, a CMS 5-star rating and Leapfrog “Straight A” status, while pioneering delirium certification, telehealth programs and pandemic-era family-connection initiatives that drew national recognition.
Wolk oversees enterprise-wide operations for the $1.4 billion health system. A driving force behind its growth, she has spent more than 15 years leading major initiatives that have expanded access to care, including launching Epic across the hospital and physician network and expanding community-based imaging, diagnostic and laboratory services.
Young leads HMH’s Population Health Division, which has grown its clinically integrated network from under 800 providers in 2015 to more than 4,000 today, spanning the Medicare Shared Savings program, managed care and insurance partnerships.
