Ellen J. Hirsh, MD, FACP

Ellen J. Hirsh, MD, FACP, was raised in Bergen County, New Jersey. After graduating cum laude from Brandeis University, Dr. Hirsh earned her medical degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) in 1988. She completed an internal medicine residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1991 and her infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Maryland in Baltimore in 1993. She completed an additional year of training in Transplant Infectious Diseases in 1994 at the University of Maryland. She has been in practice in New Jersey as a consultant in Infectious Diseases since her return in 1994.

Dr. Hirsh was board certified in Internal Medicine in 1991 and Infectious Diseases in 1994. She is an attending physician at Somerset Medical Center, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, St. Peter’s University Hospital, and University Medical Center at Princeton. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the RWJMS.

Dr. Hirsh is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Infectious Diseases Society of New Jersey, the International Society of Travel Medicine, the American Medical Association, and the American College of Physicians. She is Chief of Infectious Diseases at Somerset Medical Center and Vice Chair of IRB.