Designed to produce exceptional physicians who understand what drives health and disease.

Our innovative curriculum utilizes evidence-based teaching methods to promote effective and efficient student learning.

The 20-acre state-of-the-art campus features world-class facilities for health science research and discovery.

Central to the curriculum, placing the individual, family, and community as the focus of medicine.

As a first generation student who worked in healthcare throughout college, Farishta Saifi learned early about the importance of listening closely—to patients, to families, and to the moments when healthcare can fall short if communication breaks down. Growing up in Gravesend, an underserved neighborhood in Brooklyn, she learned early that medicine is about more than diagnoses and treatment plans.

An influential vocation sparked a powerful combustion of development for Robert Vanaria. Vanaria, a fourth-year medical student at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (HMSOM), credits a chain reaction of positive experiences with mapping the course he’s plotted throughout his formative years of adolescence and into adulthood.

The boy would go to his sister’s appointments, and spend lots of time waiting to hear all the updates. The little girl had Pierre Robin Sequence, a rare condition with a cleft palate and undersized jaw. It ultimately required a dozen surgeries during her first two years of life.

In the twists, turns, and moments of uncertainty, a person’s true calling is often forged, rather than found. Such is the case for Tatiana Oliveira, a fourth-year student at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (HMSOM), whose journey to medicine is a powerful testament to resilience, determination, and the profound impact of family.