Alum Heads UMDNJ Board

Kevin Barry, MD, MBA
UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School ’87

The first alum to claim the top leadership position at UMDNJ, the nation’s largest public health science university, is Kevin Barry, a confident, calm, successful anesthesiologist at Morristown Memorial Hospital who was first appointed to the University’s Board of Trustees in 2007 by then Governor Jon Corzine. Last September, current Governor Chris Christie gave him the top spot on the Board. “It is both a privilege and an honor, especially returning to the Stanley S. Bergen Building which I still reflexively refer to as Martland Hospital.”





In an interview for the winter 2011 issue of Pulse magazine, Barry recalled completing his clinical rotations a few floors below the Board’s offices in the building that was once a hospital. “I received a set of vaccines here before heading off to Kenya for a medical mission,” he adds. “This is home. I’ve come full circle.” Barry was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in biochemistry from Rutgers in 1983 and interned at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before going for his anesthesia residency at The New York Hospital and Hospital for Special Surgery. He also received his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1995. A member of the Board of Directors at UMDNJ-University Hospital, president of Anesthesia Associates of Morristown since 1994, and on the healthcare transition team for the Christie administration, he believes, “This University is positioned to make greater strides towards becoming a national leader in health education and research.”