CentraState Drs. Maria Ciminelli and Zeeshan Khan were recently honored by the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians (NJAFP) at the NJAFP Summer Assembly in Atlantic City on June 11.
Dr. Ciminelli received the Family Physician of the Year Award, which is granted annually to a physician who has practiced in New Jersey for at least 10 consecutive years; who provides his/her community with compassionate, comprehensive and caring medical service; and is a credible role model, emulating the family physician as a healer and human being to the community, and as a professional in the service and art of medicine to colleagues, other health professionals and especially to young physicians in training and to medical students.
Dr. Ciminelli is a board-certified family medicine physician on staff at CentraState Medical Center where she serves as program director of the CentraState Family Medicine Residency Program and medical director of the CentraState Family Medicine Residency Practice. She is also assistant professor at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Dr. Zeeshan Khan received the New Jersey Family Physician Resident of the Year Award for “Demonstration of the Outstanding Attributes of a Family Physician.” Dr. Khan is the fourth resident from the CentraState Family Medicine Residency Program in the past 11 years to earn this prestigious award among the 13 family medicine residency programs in the state.
CentraState Healthcare System is a nonprofit community health organization consisting of an acute-care hospital, a health and wellness campus, three senior living communities, a Family Medicine Residency Program, and a charitable foundation. CentraState’s teaching program is sponsored by Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.