News Release - February 10, 2015

Jennifer Forbes
Communications & Public Affairs
732-235-6356, jenn.forbes@rwjms.rutgers.edu

 

Rutgers Announces New Heads of Medicine and Translational Science at
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Fredric E. Wondisford, MD, has been named professor of medicine and chair of medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and chief of the department of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Sally Radovick, MD, has been named professor of pediatrics and senior associate dean for clinical and translational research at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Both will be Chancellor Scholars, a new designation awarded by the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor to the academically strongest new recruits.

“We are pleased to welcome both Dr. Wondisford and Dr. Radovick to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,” explains Vicente H. Gracias, MD, interim dean of the medical school. “Both of these esteemed physicians will allow us to advance the delivery of clinical care, research, education and community health in the local community, as well as the national landscape.”

While at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Dr. Wondisford, served as professor of medicine, pediatrics and physiology and as director of the metabolism division. He also served as director of the Johns Hopkins Diabetes Institute, leading a multi-disciplinary effort of research scientists and physicians to improve the quality of care for patients.

As a physician-scientist, Dr. Wondisford’s well-funded research program focuses on pituitary and pancreatic hormonal growth and regulation. He is the inventor of the approach to synthesize recombinant human TSH, for which he holds two U.S. patents. Recombinant human TSH (Thyrogen) is FDA-approved for use in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with thyroid cancer.

Dr. Wondisford earned a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude, in biology and chemistry at Youngstown State University, Ohio, and a medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. His residency in internal medicine was conducted at the University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University Medical School. He completed a fellowship in endocrinology research at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Dr. Radovick served as the Lawson Wilkins Professor of Pediatrics, director of the division of endocrinology, and vice chair for research in the department of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

An expert in pediatric growth and development disorders, Dr. Radovick’s well-funded research program focuses on steroids that control sexual maturity and reproduction, neurotransmitters, and growth factors. In addition, she studies the deficiency of hormones produced by the pituitary gland in children with growth failure.

Dr. Radovick earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude, in biology and chemistry, and a master’s degree in theoretical chemistry from Youngstown State University, Ohio. She earned a medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine and completed a residency at Case Western Reserve University, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Radovick was a pediatric endocrinology fellow, developmental endocrinology branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and a senior staff fellow, Molecular Cellular and Endocrinology Branch at the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, both part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

“Dr. Wondisford and Dr. Radovick exemplify the strength of the newly integrated Rutgers to recruit international talent to our university,” says Brian Strom, chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences. “This is yet another step in the continuum of building for the state of New Jersey one of the best academic health centers in the country.”


About Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

As one of the nation's leading comprehensive medical schools, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, part of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, research, health care delivery, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school's principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey's premier academic medical center. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region.

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School encompasses 20 basic science and clinical departments, and hosts centers and institutes including The Cardiovascular Institute, the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick and Piscataway, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionals and community education programs. To learn more about Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, visit rwjms.rutgers.edu. Find us online at facebook.com/RWJMedicalSchool and twitter.com/RWJMS.