Dental Medicine
General Practice Residency Program at
Monmouth Medical Center

About the Faculty

Dr. Barry Elbaum currently serves as Chairman of the Department of Dentistry at Monmouth Medical Center where he has been chair for the past eighteen years. 
He is past President of the Monmouth/Ocean County Dental Society and has served as Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Jersey Shore Medical Center, CentraState Medical Center and Monmouth Medical Center.

Dr. Elbaum graduated from New York University College of Dentistry and completed his four year Oral Surgery Specialty Training Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

He is a Fellow of both the American and International Societies of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and is a Fellow of the American Society of Dental Anesthesiology and a Fellow and Diplomate of the International Congress of Oral Implantology.  Dr. Elbaum is in private practice and has been for more then 38 years.

Michelle E. Ziegler, D.D.S.

Dr. Ziegler currently serves as the full time Director of the General Practice Residency Program.  She has done so since 2001.

Dr. Ziegler graduated from New York University College of Dentistry.  Her undergraduate training includes a BS from Columbia University and an AS in Dental Hygiene from the University of Pennsylvania  School of Dental Medicine.

Dr. Ziegler’s postgraduate training includes a two year General Practice Residency at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY where she served as Chief her PGY2 year.

Dr. Ziegler has been involved in postgraduate teaching for over 12 years, 8 of which has been as a program director.

In addition, Residents receive their dental education from a highly regarded Dental Staff that consists of more than 50 general practitioners and specialists in all areas of clinical dentistry.  Every discipline is lead by a Section Chief who coordinates didactic and clinical experience in that discipline with the Program Director

Physicians in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, anesthesiology and emergency medicine offer expertise to residents on a clinical rotation.

A full-time director of research in medical education assists each resident with a research project, paper and presentation.

Dental Staff

General Dentistry
Section Chief, Dr. Michelle Ziegler
Dr. Peter Abadir
Dr. Eric Adler
Dr. Michael Adler
Dr. James Burden
Dr. Richard Champagne
Dr. James Chenitz
Dr. Robert Damurjian
Dr. Beth DeAngelis-Ruda
Dr. Phyllis Detwiler
Dr. Thomas Driscoll
Dr. Mitchel Friedman
Dr. Jeffrey Hochstein
Dr. Saul Landa
Dr. Kenneth Ledwitz
Dr. Brett Loeser
Dr. Robert McTaggart
Dr. Richard Mercurio
Dr. Philip Rabin
Dr. J. Clifford Rigby
Dr. Michele Schultz
Dr. Daniel Shomer
Dr. Melinda Wagner
Dr. Martin Weinstock
Dr. Nathalie Zenian-McOmber

Endodontics
Section Chief, Dr. Herbert Gutentag
Dr. Mark Gelband

Oral Surgery
Section Chief, Dr. Gary Brousell
Dr. Barry Elbaum
Dr. Jeffrey Elbaum
Dr. John Feeney
Dr. Carl Gardiner
Dr. Ean James
Dr. Brian Krost
Dr. Manolis Manolakakis
Dr. Olumide Olawoye
Dr. Richard Salman

Orthodontics
Section Chief, Dr. Richard Isaacson
Dr. Edward Boim
Dr. Meka Harris
Dr. James Isaacson
Dr. Robert Isaacson
Dr. Sezer Olcay
Dr. John Young

Pediatric Dentistry
Section Chief, Dr. Madeline Badalaty
Dr. Jill Alenier
Dr. Danny Chiang
Dr. Richard Gindi
Dr. William Lieberman
Dr. Marc Radler
Dr. Matt Safari

Periodontics
Section Chief, Dr. Marc Gordon
Dr. Wayne Aldredge
Dr. Andrew Samuel
Dr. Scott Zirkin

Prosthodontics
Section Chief, Dr. Anthony Sallustio
Dr. Eric Gordon

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