Christine F. Li, of North Brunswick, Wendell A. Smith, of Holmdel, and Dennis A. Estis, of Short Hills, recently authored the 2005 edition of “New Jersey Condominium & Community Association Law,” distributed by Gann Law Books. The authors are partners at the Woodbridge office of the law firm of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis.
The book is designed to assist condominium and other common-interest communities in understanding the rights and obligations of common property ownership and enabling officers and board members of condominium and community associations to better understand their roles.
Li concentrates her practice in condominium and planned real estate development law, including the conversion of rental properties to the condominium form of ownership, community association law, and the acquisition, financing and leasing of commercial and residential real estate. She has extensive experience with the registration of planned real estate developments with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. Smith concentrates his practice in land use and planned real estate development, including large, mixed-use projects, as well as active adult, golf course and resort communities. He is also recognized for his expertise on condominium and community association law in New Jersey, and serves as counsel to the New Jersey Community Associations Institute. Estis concentrates his practice in the area of complex litigation relating to condominium and cooperative corporation law, real estate disputes, construction defects, utility law and environmental and municipal issues.
Dr. Jyotsna Thapar, a podiatrist who speaks Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and English, has joined the staff at Raritan Bay Medical Center, with locations in Old Bridge and Perth Amboy.
Thapar, a native of India who now lives in Sayreville, is the only female podiatrist in Middlesex County fluent in the South Asian languages, according to the hospital.
“There is a growing South Asian community in northern Middlesex County and eastern Union County,” Thapar said. “I look forward to serving this population, as well as others who require any type of foot care. I provide all phases of podiatric care from routine management to reconstructive surgery, while also specializing in the evaluation and treatment of lower extremity disorders in the diabetic patient.”
The doctor earned her medical degree from the New York College of Podiatry Medicine, based in Manhattan.
Thapar is an associate with Advantage Foot and Ankle Center, with offices in East Brunswick, South Amboy and Linden. Her main office is at Hospital Plaza, adjacent to Raritan Bay Medical Center’s Old Bridge hospital.
The Middlesex-Somerset Chapter of New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners recently donated $1,000 to Middlesex Community College; this year’s grant recipient is Veronica Terry, a single mother of two, who worked part time while attending the college. She plans on pursuing a bachelor’s degree in sociology at Kean University. The Middlesex-Somerset NJAWBO chapter has been building the scholarship endowment with the Middlesex Community College foundation since 1993.
Raritan Bay Medical Center rheumatologist Dr. Janak R. Goyal, of Old Bridge, has been named Attending Physician of the Year by the 2004 graduating internal medicine resident physicians.
The award is offered to physicians who support the residents by giving freely of their time and knowledge. The recipient is selected by the graduating residents.
A teaching hospital since 1903, Raritan Bay Medical Center, now with divisions in Old Bridge and Perth Amboy, has had an internal medical residency since 1980 and is affiliated with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
“It is an honor to receive this recognition from the resident physicians,” Goyal said. “I enjoy working with the residents, helping them become better clinicians.”
He teaches rheumatology with an emphasis on history taking and physical examination, stressing key points of diagnoses based on history, physical examination and laboratory data. Residents then make management decisions based on proper diagnosis under his guidance.
“I advise the residents to never stop learning medicine,” Goyal said. “Health care is a rapidly changing field that requires the physician to constantly learn new things. It is important for them to develop an intuition about patient treatment and establish effective plans of care for them.”
Goyal graduated from Medical College Patiala in Punjab, India, in 1974. He practiced medicine in India for more than 10 years before coming to the United States. He completed his internal medicine residency at Raritan Bay Medical Center and completed a rheumatology fellowship from State University of New York–Health Science Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Goyal, who joined Raritan Bay in 1989 as an intern, is now a senior attending physician and director of the division of rheumatology.
A resident of Old Bridge, he has a wife and two adult children, both physicians. He maintains a private practice in rheumatology and internal medicine in Perth Amboy.
Beata “Berta” Pruszkowski recently joined Re/Max Central, Manalapan, as a sales associate. Formerly of Weichert, Realtors, Pruszkowski specializes in the listing and sale of residential properties in Middlesex and Monmouth counties.
Pruszkowski is a resident of Sayreville.
Bruce H. Jones, South Brunswick, has been re-elected executive director of the Commercial Finance Association for 2005. Founded in 1944, Commercial Finance Association (based in New York City) is the trade organization of the asset-based financial services industry, with members throughout the United States, Canada and around the world. Members include the asset-based lending arms of domestic and foreign commercial banks, small and large independent finance companies, floor plan financing organizations, factoring organizations and financing subsidiaries of major industrial corporations.
Jones has been with the Commercial Finance Association for 38 years. After completing college, he was drafted into military service and spent much of the next two years in Bremerhaven, West Germany, as a cryptographer in the Signal Corps. Jones is only the third chief administrative officer of the trade group in its 60-year history. Among his achievements at CFA include launching the Secured Lender, the leading publication in the asset-based financial services industry.
In 1981 and 1982, Jones was on the Township Committee of South Brunswick. Also, in the late 1970s and early 1980s he served on the Planning and Environmental committees of the township. In addition, he has been a volunteer for the local chapter of the American Heart Association.