Dr. DeAngelis grew up in South Jersey and attended Villanova University for undergrad, where he obtained a Bachelor in Science in Biology. He went on to medical school at UMDNJ, and completed his residency here at Cooper University Hospital. He now focuses on regional anesthesia for a variety of surgical cases.

In his free time, Dr. DeAngelis enjoys cars, sports, and time with his family at the beach.

Michael DeAngelo, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in health psychology within Cooper University Healthcare System. Dr. DeAngelo provides patient care, as well as coordinates and supervises Behavioral Medicine graduate students in the outpatient offices of the Early Intervention Program. He also holds an adjunct faculty position with Rowan University, teaching undergraduate students in the Psychology Department. In addition, Dr. DeAngelo is an affiliate of the Postpartum Stress Center in Bryn Mawr, PA.

Dr. Edward R. Deal grew up in Northeast Philadelphia. After spending four years in the Marine Corps, he attended LaSalle College and majored in Biology with a minor in Mathematics.

Dr. Deal received his medical degree from UMDNJ-SOM. He was internship trained in Internal Medicine before completing a residency in Anesthesiology. During residency he did subspecialty training in Cardiac and Trauma Anesthesia. After residency, he started in private practice at Cooper Hospital. In 1995, his group became employees of Cooper and he has been here ever since.

Dr. Deal is presently the Vice Chief/Chair of Clinical Anesthesiology. In his free time he enjoys photography, skiing, and his grandchildren.

Dr. Phillip Dellinger is Professor and Chairman of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He is Medicine Service Chief at Cooper University Hospital and Medical Director of Adult Health Institute. He was previously the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) governor for both Texas and Missouri. Dr. Dellinger was president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) from 1998-1999. He is currently associate editor for the SCCM’s journal, Critical Care Medicine. He is the creator of the SCCM Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) course now translated into 5 languages and taught around the world. Dr. Dellinger has authored over 250 journal articles and book chapters as well as edited over 30 books and journal issues in the field of critical care medicine.

His primary academic interests are new innovative sepsis therapies, sepsis management, sepsis performance improvement and clinical trial design. He co-edited the second, third and fourth editions of the major critical care textbook, Critical Care Medicine (Mosby). He has received numerous awards and honors, including induction into the Baylor College of Medicine Teaching Hall of Fame, the SCCM’s Distinguished Service Award, the Dorothy & Sol Sherry Award for Teaching Excellence Award, and he was selected for full membership in the Academy of Master Educators at Cooper Medical School at Rowan University, at rank of Distinguished Scholar. He is a fellow of the ACCP and was inducted as a Master Fellow in the College of Critical Care Medicine in 2012 (one of 20 initial inductees spanning the 40-year history of SCCM). In 2015 he became the 15th recipient of the SCCM’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the 42 year history of that organization. 

Dr. Dellinger was an associate chair of the 1992 consensus conference that created the first definitions for sepsis and chaired the 1997 National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ American College of Chest Physicians work- shop, “The Future of Sepsis Research.” He is past chairman of the International Sepsis Forum (ISF), currently serves on the ISF Governing Council and was co-chair of the 2012 ISF Scientific Colloquium on Clinical Trial Design held at the NIH. He serves on the executive committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC). He was co-chair and lead author of the 2013 SSC Guidelines for the Management of Severe Sepsis, now sponsored by 30 international scientific organizations. He previously served on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) ICU Collaborative Advisory Board and the Rhode Island Hospital Association Sepsis Performance Improvement Collaborative.  He currently serves as lead faculty for the New Jersey Hospital Association Sepsis Performance Improvement Collaborative. He is currently one of two content leads for The Maryland Hospital Association and Maryland Patient Safety Council’s Statewide Collaborative on Sepsis Performance Improvement.

Dr. Ronak Desai grew up in suburban Philadelphia and studied Music and Chemistry at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University. He later matriculated at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, graduating second in his class, and completed his Anesthesiology residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals, serving as Chief Resident.

Dr. Desai spends his clinical time at CUHC both in regional and cardiac anesthesia. In his free time, he enjoys music, golf, and travelling with his family.

Gye Won (Diane) Choi is a Medical Physicist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper. She received her MS and completed residency at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She joined Cooper in 2018.

Gregory Dodson, DO, grew up in the Poconos of Northeast PA and completed his undergraduate work at the University of Scranton. He attended the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, NJ before his internship and Anesthesia Residency at Cooper. He completed a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2015 and worked in private practice before returning to his roots at Cooper in 2017. He has served as the medical director of the Cooper Surgery Center at Voorhees since 2018.

Dr. Dodson enjoys traveling and hiking with is family and vizsla puppy, Gryffin.