Dr. Roy is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. In addition to being the Outpatient Primary Care Teaching Faculty of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and the Director of the Residency Research Program, he is also the Medical School Internal Medicine – Primary Care Co-Course Director.

His main specialty interests are primary care, preventive medicine, medical research and medical education. He has published many research articles in the local, state, national and international conferences and journals. Dr. Roy encourages residents to contact him to get involved in research opportunities.

Dr Sabia grew up in North Jersey and came to Cooper for his internship and Anesthesiology residency. After completing his Chief Residency at Cooper, he worked as an attending anesthesiologist for one year then moved to New York City to complete a Pain Medicine fellowship at Beth Israel Medical Center. After one year of private practice, he decided to come back to Cooper to start an ACGME-accredited Pain Medicine fellowship training program. He took over as Division Head in 2013 and has grown the program clinically and academically. He enjoys spending time with his family, dining out, and travel.

Dr. John Safaryn is a native of Northern New Jersey. He was born in the City of Bayonne, and raised in the small town of Roselle. He graduated with a BA from the University of Virginia in 1980 and received an MS in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 before attending the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers Medical School) in Newark, New Jersey. He received his MD in 1990 and interned at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune New Jersey. He completed his residency in Anesthesiology with electives in Cardiac Anesthesia and Neuro-anesthesia in 1994 at NYU Langone Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital in New York.

Following his graduation, Dr. Safaryn was an attending anesthesiologist and Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1998 he returned to his home state of New Jersey and joined the staff of Cooper Hospital in Camden, New Jersey. He was appointed Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center. He transferred to the faculty of Cooper Medical School at Rowan University upon the opening of the new school in 2012 and was promoted to the rank of Clinical Associate Professor in 2018. Since 2015, he has been an instructor in the Scholar’s Workshop course at the Medical School. He is board certified in Anesthesia and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Dr. Safaryn lives in Moorestown, New Jersey with his wife, Elaine, and daughter, Elizabeth. For twelve years he has volunteered at South Jersey Ballet Theater as scenery builder and stage manager for their productions. He enjoys visiting and hiking the national parks with his family, and spends his summers in Florida, Virginia, and the Jersey Shore.

Matthew Salzman, MD, MPH, graduated from Jefferson Medical College, now the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and trained in Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology at Drexel University College of Medicine. He recently completed his master’s in public health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He is the Medical Director of the Addiction Medicine Consult Liaison Service at Cooper University Health Care as well as the Medical Director of Research for Cooper’s Center for Healing.

Dr. Salzman is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology, and Addiction Medicine. He is a volunteer consultant at the Philadelphia Poison Control Center and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and an attending physician in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine at Cooper University Health Care. In addition to working with medical students, residents, and fellows in the Emergency Department and throughout the hospital, Dr. Salzman lectures locally, regionally, and nationally. He has academic interest in allostatic load and resilience in individuals with substance use disorders, as well as acute pain management for people with opioid dependence and opioid use disorder.

Major (Maj.) Simon Sarkisian, DO, MS, FAAEM is a U.S. Army Reserve physician and attending physician in Cooper University Hospital's Department of Emergency Medicine. He is also the Emergency Physician on the 912th Forward Resuscitative Surgical Detachment (FRSD) based out of Cranston, Rhode Island.

Major Sarkisian was awarded the U.S. Army Health Professions Scholarship Program scholarship in 2011 and graduated from Touro University in California with a Doctor of Osteopathy degree in 2015. He attended the Emergency Medicine residency program at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Hood, Texas. In 2018 he graduated from his residency program as a chief resident. Maj. Sarkisian's first duty assignment after graduation was at Cooper University Hospital as part of the Army Medical Department Trauma Team Training (AMCT3) program.

In 2020 to 2021, he was deployed to Baghdad, Iraq with the 115th Field Hospital as part of Operation Inherent Resolve. In 2021, he was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan with the 274th FRSD and 82nd Airborne Division to assist in the evacuation of Afghan refugees as part of the XVIII Airborne Corps Immediate Response Force (IRF). In 2022 he deployed to Romania with the 240th FRSD for the Russian invasion of Ukraine as part of the XVIII Airborne Corps IRF. Maj. Sarkisian enjoys teaching medical students, residents, and military/diplomatic rotators as well as improving Cooper's disaster medicine and preparedness programs. Maj. Sarkisian has authored/co-authored numerous publications in emergency and military medicine. His interests also include operational/austere medicine, disaster medicine, and emergency preparedness.

Maj. Sarkisian currently serves as the Medical Director of Disaster Medicine in the Division of EMS and Disaster Medicine.

To learn more about Cooper's Center for Disaster and Austere Medicine, visit https://cooperhealth.org/services/disaster-medicine.