West Orange, N.J.-based Barnabas Health has named Ernani Sadural, MD, director of global health.
Dr. Sadural, a board-certified OB/GYN, is currently part of the medical staff at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, and Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville. He also maintains a private practice at Regional Women's Health Group in West Orange and Kearny.
While continuing his medical practice, Dr. Sadural will coordinate the system's widespread national and international humanitarian outreach efforts and help assess future initiatives. Barnabas Health physicians, nurses and employees have traveled to many different countries as well as across the United States on supportive missions to aid in disasters and provide medical care to underserved areas.
Dr. Sadural is co-founder and CMO of the Life is Great Global Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing medical and non-medical volunteers to underserved populations and creating sustainable change through education and training of local residents. He and his wife, Sarah Timmapuri, MD, a cardiologist and co-founder of LIG, were inspired to create the organization after the catastrophe of the Haitian earthquake in 2010. Since its formation, LIG teams have made more than 30 trips to 10 different countries.