• Darren P. Mareiniss, MD, FACEP is the Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at RWJBH Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

    Dr. Mareiniss completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College where he graduated cum laude with a major in genetics and developmental biology. He then earned his MD at the NYU School of Medicine where he graduated AOA. He completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. At Hopkins, he pursued additional training in critical care and received the resident research award. Dr. Mareiniss is board certified in Emergency Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

    Prior to joining RWJBH, Dr. Mareiniss was faculty at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. At Einstein, he served as a member of the Pandemic Task Force and as the Assistant Program Director of the Einstein Emergency Medicine Residency program. Before this, Dr. Mareiniss served as clinical faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown Medical School. Prior to this, he was core faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Mareiniss also previously served as the Chairman of Bioethics at Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He also worked as a critical care physician at University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland. In addition to his medical training and experience, Dr. Mareiniss holds both a Masters of Bioethics and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published multiple peer review articles on pandemic response, critical care, ventilator allocation, bioethics and disaster response. Dr. Mareiniss is often quoted by and has written for the lay press as well. He has appeared on local television frequently in both Baltimore and Philadelphia.