Cavalieri, Edson named to 2025 Health Care Power List

NJBIZ today named Thomas Cavalieri, vice president, senior advisor for Healthcare and Medical Education, and Matthew Edson, founding dean of the Shreiber School of Veterinary Medicine of Rowan University, to the news outlet’s 2025 Health Care Power List.

NJBIZ noted that healthcare in the Garden State changed greatly during and after covid and that it continues to do so. But even amid that change, editors wrote, leaders like Cavalieri and Edson are helping to redefine the boundaries of medicine, medical education and healthcare.

NJBIZ editors wrote about their service to Rowan and their remarkable careers in medicine, veterinary medicine and education.

A geriatrician and professor of medicine, Cavalieri, “for 17 years … served as dean of the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, first as part of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of N.J. and then as the school was integrated into Rowan University. During his tenure, the undergraduate curriculum was modernized, class size grew three times larger, and SOM expanded to a second campus in Sewell, becoming the largest medical school in New Jersey. Cavalieri is also overseeing two of Rowan University’s special initiatives: a developing partnership with the Wilmington Veterans Affairs Medical Center aimed at enhancing care for South Jersey veterans, and the development of a proposed intergenerational Wellness Village on the university’s West Campus… He is helping to try to solve the physician shortage, focusing on recruiting physicians in underserved and other areas while ensuring that medical education programs maintain high standards.”

Edson, they wrote, “is the founding dean of the Shreiber School of Veterinary Medicine of Rowan University, the first veterinary school in the state (when it opens this year).

“The new facility, located in Harrison Township, includes educational and research space as well as a multi-specialty veterinary teaching hospital that will be open to the public – with an anticipated opening in August.

“In November, leaders from the school and Merck Animal Health unveiled the school’s new Shelter Medicine & Community Engagement Mobile Unit, funded through a $500,000 gift from Merck.”

“We are building relationships with human provider organizations that serve community members experiencing homelessness and other barriers to care to help these community members be able to access care for their pet family members as well,” Edson said.