Steven T. Kaufman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU), is the Division Head of Endocrinology at Cooper University Health Care. Dr. Kaufman graduated with honors from Rutgers University with his bachelor of arts. He received his medical degree from Temple University before completing his residency in Internal Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and his fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Kaufman's urban health efforts are focused on decreasing the disparities in the management of chronic illness, specifically diabetes. His early work in urban health with the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers focused on practice-level innovations in diabetes care within primary care offices in the resource-poor community of Camden, NJ. He is now the Medical Director of Cooper University Health Care’s Urban Health Institute. He heads an interdisciplinary team implementing innovative health care delivery through open access scheduling, shared medical visits, and improved clinical efficiency across 23 medical and surgical specialties. Dr. Kaufman’s additional roles include Medical Director of the hospital’s Inpatient Glycemic Control Task Force and Co-Course Director for the CMSRU Interdisciplinary Chronic Care Clerkship.

Dr. Kaufman and his wife have been married for more than 22 years, and have two children: Samuel (21) and Isabel (18). He enjoys long-distance running and hiking.

Hope Kilgannon, MD, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She completed her undergraduate studies at American University with a focus on Latin American Studies and received her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she was selected for the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Dr. Kilgannon pursued residency training in emergency medicine at the Cooper University Hospital, where she served as chief resident during her final year. 

Dr. Kilgannon began her career focused on medical education and served as clerkship director for a number of years. She was named EM Teaching Attending of the Year in 2006. During this time, she worked closely with fellow faculty to develop the on-shift teaching attending solely dedicated to bedside student education to improve the undergraduate EM clerkship experience. And, although she transitioned to a role in research over her tenure at Cooper, she remains actively involved in the monthly clerkship didactics and the students’ simulation education exercises as well as serving as teaching attending on clerkship shifts in the ED. Dr. Kilgannon is also an editor for the Cooper EM residency educational FOAMed website, EMDAILY.

Dr. Kilgannon’s greatest contribution to the field of EM has been with regard to the research related to the critical period of illness after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) from cardiac arrest. Working closely with a multi-center research network, her group has explored hypotheses aimed at identifying target parameters after ROSC that might mitigate neurological devastation as well as identifying the severe psychological sequelae of suffering catastrophic illness. Her work on post-cardiac arrest care has been cited by multiple authors, including the “European Resuscitation Council and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Guidelines for Post-resuscitation Care 2015” (Resuscitation, 2015) and the “2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care” (Circulation, 2015).