Houshmand, Reboli and Cavalieri make NJ BIZ Education Power 50 list
Houshmand, Reboli and Cavalieri make NJ BIZ Education Power 50 list
September 26, 2019
Dr. Ali A. Houshmand
NJ BIZ Magazine this week named three top Rowan educators -- President Ali A. Houshmand, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Dean Annette C. Reboli and School of Osteopathic Medicine Dean Thomas A. Cavalieri among its 2019 "Education Power 50".
The three join educator-executives around New Jersey in a group the magazine notes are not only keeping Garden State educational institutions strong, but helping them provide economic anchors for their communities and the state.
The magazine noted that Houshmand, who became Rowan's seventh president in 2012, has fought hard to keep New Jersey's best students in-state and launched a spicy new revenue stream for student emergencies.
;Too many New Jersey high school graduates leave for colleges in other states and, worse, do not return after graduation. As president of Rowan University, Houshmand has taken on the fight to reverse those dynamics,” editors wrote. “Using hot sauce, Houshmand established an emergency fund, with money raised outside Rowan’s normal course of operations, to help Rowan students solely based on emergency financial need. This emergency reserve is funded through the sale of his homemade hot sauce, t-shirts and other merchandise.”
Editors noted that Reboli (at right), who is also a professor of medicine at CMSRU, was founding vice dean
responsible for oversight of the LCME accreditation process, undergraduate and graduate medical education, faculty affairs and faculty development, and developing affiliations for the medical school.
She has authored or co-authored over 180 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and abstracts, has been named a "Top Doctor" in a variety of magazines, and, over the course of her career, garnered over $15 million in research support,” editors wrote.
They wrote that Cavalieri (below) is also a professor of medicine and is the Osteopathic Heritage Endowed Chair for Primary Care Research at SOM.
“He is currently overseeing the modernization of the school’s undergraduate medical education curriculum, facilitating a class size expansion, building the school’s endowment, and preparing the campus for the single accreditation of the graduate medical education programs,” editors wrote.