R. Phillip  Dellinger, MD, FCCM, FCCP

R. Phillip Dellinger, MD, FCCM, FCCP

Teaching Faculty
Professor of Medicine, CMSRU

About Me

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.

Ronak G. Desai, DO

Ronak G. Desai, DO

Vice Chairman, Clinical Affairs, Department of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, CMSRU

About Me

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, MS, DABR

Gye Won (Diane) Choi, MS, DABR

Teaching Faculty

About Me

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.

Judy Diep, MD

Judy Diep, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, CMSRU
Grace Dippo, MD

Grace Dippo, MD

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, CMSRU

About Me

Dr. Grace Dippo grew up in southern New Jersey and studied chemistry and music at Drew University. She was an EMT for several years before pursing medicine further at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Her intern year was completed at Wheaton Franciscan St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee, followed by Anesthesiology residency at Cooper University Hospital.

Dr. Dippo has a special interest in education and feels honored to be a resident mentor and co-coordinator of the board review program for the Anesthesiology residency at Cooper. She is on the obstetric, regional, and pediatric anesthesia teams and enjoys a great variety of cases. She loves art, music, high fantasy, black cats, and fitness.

Gregory M. Dodson, DO

Gregory M. Dodson, DO

Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, CMSRU

About Me

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.

Katherine  Doktor, MD, MS

Katherine Doktor, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine, CMSRU
Henry J. Dolch, DO

Henry J. Dolch, DO

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, CMSRU

About Me

Henry J. Dolch, Jr., DO, MSS received his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his internship at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.  He finished an orthopaedic surgery residency at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and a fellowship in orthopaedic trauma surgery at Georgia Orthopaedic Trauma Institute at the Medical Center of Central Georgia, in Macon, Georgia.  Prior to joining the Department of Orthopaedics at Cooper University Hospital, Dr. Dolch was part of the Orthopaedic Trauma Group at the Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia.  As a faculty member and Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Cooper Medical  School of Rowan University and Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dr. Dolch is heavily involved in the education and training of medical students, orthopaedic residents and orthopaedic trauma fellows.

Dr. Dolch has completed orthopaedic specialty rotations in adult joint reconstruction, pediatric orthopaedics, sports medicine, orthopaedic trauma and shoulder and elbow reconstruction.  He is a member of the AOTrauma North America Orthopaedic Faculty, Orthopaedic Trauma Association, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopaedics, and the American Osteopathic Association.  He is highly involved in clinical research and has contributed to multiple publications.

Dr. Dolch is licensed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and sees patients in the Camden and Glassboro offices.

April M. Douglass-Bright, MD

April M. Douglass-Bright, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics