Rajagopalan Sivaprasad, M.D., chief of infectious diseases at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, was recently named president of the center’s 800-member medical and dental staff.
A resident of the Wayside section of Ocean Township, Sivaprasad was also elected president of Monmouth’s attending staff. Named president-elect was nephrologist Spiro Arbes, M.D., Ocean Township. Surgeon Glenn Parker, M.D., West Long Branch, and pulmonologist George Davis, M.D., Ocean Township, were chosen as secretary and treasurer, respectively.
Sivaprasad also serves as director of infection control at Monmouth, and is a clinical associate professor of medicine at its teaching affiliate, Drexel University, College of Medicine, Philadelphia, and a diplomate in internal medicine and infectious disease with the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Prior to joining Monmouth, he was an associate professor of medicine at Wright State University, and chief of medicine for the VA Medical Center, both Dayton, Ohio. He completed his training at Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
Monmouth also announced that Richard Mojares, M.D., has joined its medical and dental staff. Mojares and his father, Dennis E.C. Mojares, M.D., have a private practice in West Long Branch providing urgent and primary care to adults and children.
Mojares received his medical degree at St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, and completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey(UMDNJ), Newark.
During his last year of postgraduate training, he served as chief medical resident at the VA Hospital in East Orange. While at UMDNJ, he was a physical diagnosis instructor in the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School physician assistant program.