After serving in the interim position since February, Dr. Jeffrey Boscamp has been named dean of the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. 

Boscamp succeeds Dr. Bonita Stanton, the Nutley school’s founding dean, who died Jan. 19 at age 70 after a sudden and unexpected illness. He will also hold the role of Robert C. and Laura C. Garrett Endowed Chair for the School of Medicine Dean, Hackensack Meridian Health announced Dec. 13. 

“Dr. Boscamp has performed terrifically in the interim role, and he’s proven to be a visionary educator,” Robert Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health, said in a statement. “We are excited to see how he leads the school to an ever-brighter future.” 

Boscamp joined what is now Hackensack Meridian Health in 1987 and was integrally involved with the founding of the medical school, according to Hackensack Meridian. The medical school admitted its first students in 2018 and graduated its first physicians in 2021. 

Hackensack Meridian said Boscamp, a 2022 NJBIZ Education Power 50 honoree, was chosen after a national search. 

At the school, Boscamp is the course co-director for the first-year basic science course Immunity, Infection and Cancer, whose students not only researched the epidemiology, disease manifestations and treatments for COVID-19 in the beginning of the pandemic but also were published in the Academic Medicine journal. 

Additionally, Boscamp held the Marvin I. Gottlieb, M.D., Ph.D., Endowed Chair of Pediatrics at the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital for 14 years and founded the Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and the Steven Bader Immunological Institute at Hackensack University Medical Center. 

Board-certified in pediatric infectious diseases, Boscamp also is a member of the Hackensack Meridian Health board of trustees’ academics committee. 

Boscamp graduated from Williams College and New York Medical College and was a resident in pediatrics at Babies Hospital-Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and in internal medicine at Greenwich Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. 

He has served on numerous boards and committees, including: 

• NJ Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Infectious Diseases 
• Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund Commission, a gubernatorial-appointed position 
• American Academy of Pediatrics 
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 
• Infectious Diseases Society of America 
• Infectious Diseases Society of New Jersey 
• American Society for Microbiology