Media Contacts
Meridian Health appreciates the pressures and deadlines reporters face every day, and is committed to providing you with anything you may need as quickly and accurately as possible.
To help us help you, we ask that all questions and requests from the media go through our public and media relations team.
K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital & Jersey Shore University Medical Center
Robert Cavanaugh
Public Relations Manager
732-776-4166
Cell: 732-406-4454 (Media Only)
rcavanaugh@meridianhealth.com
Special focus: medical research and academics; heart disease and heart surgery; pediatrics and children's health and wellness; stroke; trauma and emergency medicine; infectious disease and flu; ovarian and uterine cancer; advanced surgery; neonatology; gynecology/obstetrics/reproductive endocrinology; high risk pregnancy and perinatology; urogynecology; pancreatic surgery; ear, nose, and throat surgery; psychiatry; infectious disease and travel medicine; HIV/AIDS.
Meridian Health & Meridian Partner Companies
Michael Valentino
Senior Manager, Public Relations
732-751-7538
Pager: 732-517-1921
mvalentino@meridianhealth.com
Special focus: breaking health news; national, state, and local health care issues and trends; hospital and health care industry policy and perspective; hospital quality and public reporting; emergency preparedness; community health and wellness, cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Ocean Medical Center
Donna Sellmann
Public Relations Manager
732-840-3279
dsellmann@meridianhealth.com
24-hour "On Deadline" Pager: 732-663-6032
Special focus: geriatric medicine and aging issues; pharmacology; orthopedics, joint replacement, and rehabilitation; breast, colon, and prostate cancer; vascular care and surgery; obstetrics/gynecology/maternity; radiation therapy; sleep disorders; emergency care; dialysis and kidney disease.
Riverview Medical Center
Tom Paolella
Public Relations Manager
732-530-2282
tpaolella@meridianhealth.com
24-hour "On Deadline" Pager: 732-663-4419
Special focus: breast cancer, radiation therapy, rehabilitative medicine, spine health, health care technology and imaging, neurology and neurosurgery, advanced surgery, obstetrics/gynecology/maternity, diabetes, joint replacement and orthopedics, addiction and substance abuse, sleep disorders, epilepsy, opthamology and vision correction surgery; nutrition.
Meridian Partner Companies, Special Events, & Community Partnerships
Elizabeth Dobis
Public Relations Specialist
732-751-7537
edobis@meridianhealth.com
Media Contact
K. Hovnanian Children's Hospital
at Jersey Shore
University Medical Center
Robert Cavanaugh
Public Relations Manager
732-776-4166
Cell: 732-406-4454 (Media Only)
rcavanaugh@meridianhealth.com
Special focus: medical research and academics; heart disease and heart surgery; pediatrics and children's health and wellness; stroke; trauma and emergency medicine; infectious disease and flu; ovarian and uterine cancer; advanced surgery; neonatology; gynecology/obstetrics/reproductive endocrinology; high risk pregnancy and perinatology; urogynecology; pancreatic surgery; ear, nose, and throat surgery; psychiatry; infectious disease and travel medicine; HIV/AIDS.
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