Big Talker Takes Action

Anthony J. Mazzarelli, MD, JD, MBE
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School '02

Anthony Mazzarelli, or “Dr. Mazz” as he is known to his radio audience, is the host of his own program on CBS Radio’s The Big Talker, 1210 AM in Philadelphia, where he offers all sides of major issues and current events of interest to his radio fans. He has impressive qualifications: in addition to his MD, he graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and earned a Master’s Degree from the Penn’s Center for Bioethics in 2003. But more than talk, there’s plenty of action. Mazzarelli is the Medical Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cooper University Hospital in Camden as well as an of-counsel attorney with Long and Marmero, LLC in South Jersey.

Earlier this year Cooper sent a medical team to Haiti within days of the earthquake, headed by Mazzarelli. The team of 18 healthcare professionals, a mixture of physicians, nurses, and technicians, took care of hundreds of patients at three different locations and led the transformation of a Haitian orphanage into a fully functional transfer hospital.

In 2002, Mazzarelli was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce for his work in starting a clinic for uninsured patients in Camden as an RWJMS student. Last year, Philadelphia Magazine recognized Mazzarelli as one of the area’s Top Physicians Under 40. This year, he was named one of Philadelphia Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Most Talented, and was awarded the South Jersey Young Professional’s Association Halo Award.