With more than 14,000 graduates, Rutgers School of Health Professions (SHP) alumni are working and contributing to every aspect of health care. They are on the front lines of patient care, and behind the scenes in data and diagnostics, and in labs, clinics, classrooms, and communities. They are clinicians, researchers, educators, and leaders who use what they learned at SHP to make lives better.
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Cindy Saladin-Muhammad holds several singular distinctions. She serves as deputy commanding general of the 807th Medical Command and was recently promoted to brigadier general in the U.S., one of only a handful of African American women to attain that rank in the medical field of the military.
Saladin-Muhammad NCASâ91, SHPâ91, her husband, Sayyed Muhammad, who was in Army Special Operations, and her son, Air Force Tech Sergeant Reshard Saladin, have a combined 75 years of U.S. military service.
In addition, she is a Six Sigma master black belt and a resiliency coach and has held leadership positions in an international pharmaceutical corporation.
Q & A with Dr. Daniel J. Martingano, DO, MBA, PH.D., DDIV, FACOG, FACPM, FMIGS PH.D. IN BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICSâ22
OB-GYN Specialist at a Women’s Health Clinic in Queens, NY, Rutgers Associate Professor and Editor
Lisa LaConâs experience with depression led her to pursue rehabilitation counseling and psychiatric rehabilitation at Rutgers School of Health Professions (SHP). Today, she co-leads a Newark-based nonprofit with her husband, Sean, that helps marginalized populations find pathways to employment and stability.
âAs a Black woman with a mohawk, I wasnât what people expected a scholar to look like. In many ways, I related to the stigma and shame my clients experienced,â LaCon said. âWhen I left the workforce to care for my children, I battled severe depression. Returning to work was part of my recoveryâit gave me purpose. Now, I want to offer that same opportunity to my clients.â
When a prospective student rolled up to his informational interview on a longboard â and popped it into his hand with a practiced kick â Jennifer Joseph, an assistant professor in the Rutgers School of Health Professions physician assistant program, was horrified.
âI thought, âI have to meet with this punk for the next half hour and try to give him advice?ââ said Joseph, laughing.
But that meeting turned into an hour. By the end, she was sold.
âWe became fast friends,â she said. âHe had a place in my heart from that time forward.â
