Millennium Magazine_6th Ed

239 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine O riginally commencing a career in computer science, Dr. Monib A. Zirvi desired to conduct research, which led him to his current career as a dermatologist. He received a BS in engineering in 1993 from Princeton University and obtainedhisdual PhDandMDdegrees in2000 from the Cornell University Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medicine). Subsequently, he completed an internship at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 2001 and a residency in dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. Upon the completion of his medical training in 2004, Dr. Zirvi has served as a dermatologist at Summit Medical Group, an attending dermatologist at Atlantic Health Group’s Overlook Medical Center and an adjunct clinical instructor at Weill Cornell Medicine. Additionally, since 2014, he has served as chair of the Alumni Schools Committee for Northern Middlesex County at Princeton University. Alongside his research, Dr. Zirvi was the 2010 co-author of “Acquired Perforating Calcific Collagenosis After Topical Calcium Chloride Exposure” in the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology. Additionally, he is a co-patentee of “Detection of Nucleic Acid Sequence Differences Using the Ligase Detection Reaction with Addressable Arrays” and “Accelerating Identification of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Alignment of Clones in Genomic Sequencing.” Notably, Dr. Zirvi has been honored as a Top Doctor by U.S. News & World Report, New Jersey Monthly and New York Metro Area’s Castle Connolly. In 2011, he was the recipient of the Patient’s Choice Award, and in 2003, the Beerman- Johnson Resident Research Award from the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Dr. Zirvi is amember of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi and the American Academy of Dermatology, and is also involved with AmFAR and the Summit Medical Group Foundation. In five years’ time, he hopes to continue seeing patients and working closelyat oneof Cornell’s laboratories tocontribute to the constant advancements of science. Dr. Zirvi hopes that as the world progresses in all aspects of global development, peace can be made and society healed as a whole. HEALTH AND WELLNESS MONIB A. ZIRVI, MD, PHD DERMATOLOGIST Summit Medical Group Berkeley Heights, NJ