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Pediatric Faculty

Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Our faculty comes from a variety of backgrounds and experiences to provide an educational environment that nurtures while it educates. Faculty has appointments from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Program Leadership

Jon Sicat, DO
Program Director, Pediatric Residency

Dr. Sicat has a long standing history of being a residency program director for ~20 years. Along with the directorship for the Pediatric residency program, he is also the Associate Program Director for the combined Internal Medicine-Pediatric residency. He has been on the medical staff at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center since 2000 after completing his Med-Peds training at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. He graduated from New York Institute of Technology-College of Osteopathic Medicine after his undergraduate training in Biochemistry at New York University.

Dr. Sicat has professional interests in transition medicine caring for both children and adults with special health care needs. He often utilizes techniques learned from the faculty development fellowship he completed at Michigan State University in his medical education career. In his spare time he plays the piano and edits video in-between driving his medium sized children around and roaming the aisles at Costco.

Joshua S. Rosenblatt, M.D. M.S.
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of New Jersey

Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics since 2009, Dr. Rosenblatt is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He attended the Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School in Newark and was a resident and chief pediatric resident at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and later served as residency program director. He has overseen medical education at NBIMC since 1997.

Dr. Rosenblatt is an academic general pediatrician with fellowship training in primary care faculty development at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He recently received a Master’s Degree in Population Health from Thomas Jefferson University and has a deep interest in decreasing health disparity and improving health outcomes for children.

Marla Guzman, MD
Associate Program Director

Dr. Guzman is a board certified pediatric rheumatologist. She completed her pediatrics residency at Goryeb Children’s Hospital in Morristown, NJ and her pediatric rheumatology fellowship at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Long Island, NY. Her clinical interests include lupus, quality of life in children with rheumatic disease, and medical education.

Jayshree N. Kumta, MD
Associate Program Director

Dr. Kumta joined Newark Beth Israel Medical Center as its Director for Inpatient Pediatrics in July 2017, after having worked for nearly thirteen years as a Pediatric Hospitalist at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey. She completed a Residency in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit, Michigan, after obtaining an M.B.B.S. degree from Seth G.S. Medical College in Mumbai, India, and had previously been a Private Pediatrician in Mumbai, India, for more than five years.

Her current activities, reflecting her strong interest in fostering Medical Education, include Teaching Rounds and Board Review Preparation for Pediatric Residents and Medical Students. In addition, she has been a long-time advocate for Breastfeeding, providing Lactation Management training to Pediatric and OB/GYN Residents. She also works with Labor & Delivery and Nursery Nurses with the goal of increasing Exclusive Breastfeeding rates.

Khalil W. Savary, MD
Associate Program Director

Dr. Khalil Savary has been interested in pediatric pulmonology, specifically pediatric asthma, since college. He is particularly interested in helping bridge medical teaching and practical treatment options with patients, families, and the medical system. His research focus has been on predictors of asthma, often where it disproportionately affects communities. He has added to his focus involvement as a community advocate, now engaging with local leaders and organizations to help address environmental risk factors from climate change to pollution and air quality. He believes the key to patient care is a partnership between the patient and physician, which he strives to deliver. Dr. Savary is an associate professor at NJMS , currently operating 2 practice locations- One at University Hospital and one at Newark Beth Israel. He has been part of the Rutgers- NJMS family since 2017. He is an assistant program director for the pediatric residency, a faculty advisor for the medical students for environmental health group, and a core member of the undergraduate medical school education at NJMS.

Ebonni S. Shaw

Ebonni S. Shaw
Program Coordinator
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Dennis Brenner, MD

Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center

Dr. Brenner is the Chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and currently the Chair who is a strong supporter of resident education.

Onajovwe Fofah, MD

Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Health New Jersey Medical School

Board Certification: Pediatrics, Neonatal, and Perinatal Medicine
Medical School: University of Ilorin, Nigeria, (1984)
Residency: UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
Fellowship: Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Clinical Interests: Quality Improvement work in Neonatology, Simulation training in Newborn Resuscitation

The following is the listing of faculty instructors in the Pediatric Residency Program: