An endowed legacy professorship named in honor of Professor Emeritus Michael Gochfeld has been approved by the Rutgers Board of Governors.
For 25 years, Michael Gochfeld—a renowned researcher who holds both an M.D. and Ph.D.—served as founding director of the Rutgers Health residency program in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
On Thursday, the Rutgers University Board of Governors unanimously approved the Michael Gochfeld Endowed Legacy Professorship, which was created to honor, retain, and recruit faculty members, especially those who are part of the residency program within the Rutgers Health Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOSHI), or to support those who advance research and training in the field.
The professorship was made possible by a generous gift from Gochfeld—a professor emeritus in the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Rutgers School of Public Health—and his spouse, Rutgers University School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) Distinguished Professor Joanna Burger. In June, the Board of Governors unanimously approved the Joanna Burger Endowed Legacy Professorship, which also was established with a gift from Gochfeld and Burger.
Gochfeld earned his M.D. from Albert Einstein University and his Ph.D. in environmental biology from the City University of New York before serving in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps from 1966–1968. He began his career of service to Rutgers when he joined what is now known as the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) in 1980.
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