Denise V. Rodgers, MD

Dr. Denise V. Rodgers was appointed vice chancellor for interprofessional programs at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences on July 1, 2013. She was also named the Hunterdon chair in interprofessional education at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where she is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.  

Prior to these appointments, Denise served as the fifth and final president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) from January 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013. From April 2006 to June 2013, Denise led UMDNJ’s academic and clinical operations as executive vice president. She served as UMDNJ chief of staff from 2005 to 2006. From 1997 to 2005, Denise was senior associate dean for community health at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. 

Prior to joining UMDNJ, Denise was a professor and vice chair in the University of California, San Francisco Department of Family and Community Medicine and director of the San Francisco General Hospital family medicine residency program. She also served as family medicine chief of service at San Francisco General Hospital. From 1994 to 1996, she served as chief of staff of San Francisco General Hospital. 

Denise received a Bachelor of Arts in psychobiology from Oberlin College and graduated from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She is an inductee into the MSU College of Human Medicine chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society. She completed her family medicine training in the residency program in social medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Denise is board certified in family medicine and is a diplomate of the American Academy of Family Physicians.