Rachel Haroz, MD, FAACT, is Medical Director of the Cooper University Health Care Center for Healing, Division Head of Toxicology and Addiction Medicine at Cooper University Health Care, and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (EM) at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU). She is triple-board certified in EM, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine, obtaining her bachelor of arts degree in biology from Brandeis University and medical degree from Tufts University, and completing a residency in EM and fellowship in medical toxicology.

She has spent nearly her entire career thus far working in inner city emergency departments (ED), mostly in the Camden, New Jersey area where opioid intoxication, abuse, and dependency are rampant. She helped build and now staffs the Center for Healing in Camden, an addiction medicine specialty clinic dedicated to treating patients with SUD. Further she helped build an integrated clinic for patients with HIV and SUD.

In 2016, Dr. Haroz helped create and implement an initiative to prescribe buprenorphine from the ED and "bridge" patients to treatment to various community partners (now known as CUH EDAP, Cooper University Health Care Emergency Department Addiction Pathways). In 2019, she helped launch an innovative program aimed at initiating buprenorphine via paramedics in the field (now known as Bupe FIRST EMS, Buprenorphine Field Initiation of ReScue Treatment). She is also heavily involved in the education of residents, medical students, and pharmacists, and organizes education forums focused on topics related to opioid dependency and treatment.

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Elliott M. Harris, MD, is an attending physician in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. 

He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College and received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine.  Dr. Harris completed his residency in Pediatrics at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center and received fellowship training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.  After training, Dr. Harris worked as an attending physician in the Pediatric Emergency Departments at University Hospital in Syracuse, New York and Temple University Children’s Hospital before coming to Cooper in 2001.

Dr. Harris is very involved with Graduate Medical Education at the hospital level and is a member of several committees related to GME.  He has been very active in PALS training at Cooper and for years served as PALS Regional Faculty for the American Heart Association.  Dr. Harris has a strong interest in simulation training for residents and does multiple sessions each year for both Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Residents in the Simulation Lab.

Dr. Hays is a licensed clinical psychologist, in New Jersey and New York, specializing in health psychology and has worked at Cooper University Healthcare System since 2021. She is currently serving as the Wellness Psychologist and in that role responsible for program development and support of ongoing efforts across multiple levels of the CUH system to promote work-life balance, professional fulfillment, and resiliency amongst employees. She also provides patient care as well as supports the training of graduate students and postdoctoral students on the Behavioral Medicine consultation-liaison service across several settings. Within the hospital, she serves on several committees including Resiliency Resources Team, Graduate Medical Education Wellness Committee, and Physician Wellness Committee.

Dr. Hays received her undergraduate education at Bucknell University and earned her MS and PhD in Clinical Psychology (health emphasis) from Drexel University. She completed both internship and postdoctoral residency in clinical health psychology at VA Connecticut Healthcare System during which time she also held an academic appointment at Yale School of Medicine. She has published in peer-reviewed journals as well as serves as reviewer for scholarly publications. Dr. Hays is a member of the Association for Psychologists in Academic Health Centers, the American Psychological Association, and Society of Behavioral Medicine.

Dr. Bob Hirsh was a Philosophy Major at Yale University and took his medical degree at Albert Einstein in New York, where he did his Anesthesia training, and his Fellowship at Sloan Kettering. He teaches First and Second Year Students in the Scholar’s Workshop at the Cooper Medical School.

Dr. Hirsh loves science, mathematics, history, and the history of medicine, is a confirmed tinkerer who holds many patents, and is very interested in the sphere of Noninvasive Clinical Monitoring, in which he has current research interests.