A Rutgers Health physician examines a patient

Tackling Health's
Biggest Challenges

New Jersey’s
Academic Health Center

As New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Health is invested in life-changing health for all. From pioneering new ideas and treatments to educating the next generation of providers and delivering specialized and compassionate clinical care to our communities, the schools, centers, institutes, and clinical affiliates of Rutgers Health are working together to bring discoveries from the lab directly to patients across the state and around the world.

$495
M
Spent on cutting-edge research in FY24
1,300
+
Health care providers to serve your needs
11
Top-ranked graduate programs in New Jersey

U.S. News & World Report

1,000s
Served through community health programs each year

Remixing Care Delivery

Rutgers Health doctors like surgeon James Liu, MD, are renowned in their field, expert in their specialty, and always searching for new solutions to serious health challenges. When a Hip-Hop artist came in with debilitating facial pain, Dr. Liu, professor of neurological surgery at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, performed innovative surgery that immediately remedied the issue, enabling a musician to get back to doing what he loves most. 

From neurosurgery to otolaryngology to psychology and beyond, all our doctors embody experience and compassion, resulting in better outcomes for their patients.

Neurosurgeon James Liu holds a replica human skull

A New Appreciation for Art

In partnership with the Mason Gross School of the Arts and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Rutgers Health launched the interdisciplinary Arts in Health Research Lab. In this first-of-its-kind collaboration, they are quantifying how arts participation—just like exercise and nutrition—benefits the overall physical and mental health of our communities.

Understanding the emotional, psychological, social, and psychosocial effects of the arts on our well-being can also help us develop newer, more effective treatment plans.

Members of the Mason Gross School of the Arts Dance Company perform at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center

Empowering a New Generation

Bridging the gap between two disparate disciplines to better address rapidly evolving patient needs, Rutgers created the PharmD-MD dual degree program. The first in the U.S., this program prepares students for a new model of health care by fully integrating pharmacology and medicine. By building on the strengths of both, we can develop truly unified, interprofessional education and practice that will lead to better outcomes.

An RWJMS student looks at vital signs on a screen in the Pharmacy Simulation Lab
Neurosurgeon James Liu holds a replica human skull
Members of the Mason Gross School of the Arts Dance Company perform at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center
An RWJMS student looks at vital signs on a screen in the Pharmacy Simulation Lab