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Murphy to nominate Dr. Kaitlan Baston as health commissioner
Clip: 7/25/2023 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Judy Persichilli is set to retire in August
As a physician and in leadership roles, Baston has focused on addiction services and maternal and child health, according to the governor’s office She is currently the Division Head of Addiction Medicine and the Medical Director of the Center for Healing at Cooper University Health Care, a center that she founded.
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Murphy to nominate Dr. Kaitlan Baston as health commissioner
Clip: 7/25/2023 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
As a physician and in leadership roles, Baston has focused on addiction services and maternal and child health, according to the governor’s office She is currently the Division Head of Addiction Medicine and the Medical Director of the Center for Healing at Cooper University Health Care, a center that she founded.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGovernor Murphy is wasting no time tapping a new commissioner to lead the state health department.
Announcing today he'll nominate Dr. Kaitlan Baston to assume the role in August following the retirement of Commissioner Judith Persichilli, who spoke with me just yesterday about her departure.
According to the governor's office, Baston's career as a physician and in leadership roles has focused on addiction services, maternal and child health.
She's currently the Division Head of Addiction Medicine and the Medical Director of the Center for Healing at Cooper University Health Care, a center she founded.
Baston earned her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and is dual-boarded in family and addiction medicine.
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