Ronald G. Nahass, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Ronald G. Nahass, MD, FACP, FIDSA, was born and raised in New Jersey. After graduating cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1979, he earned his medical degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) in 1982. He completed an internal medicine residency at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) in 1985 and was selected Chief Medical Resident the following year. Upon the completion of his infectious diseases fellowship at RWJUH in 1988, Dr. Nahass joined the faculty of RWJMS. He began private practice of infectious diseases in January 1990. Dr. Nahass was board certified in Internal Medicine in 1985 and Infectious Diseases in 1988. He received special certification by the American Academy of HIV medicine as an HIV specialist in 2004. He completed the Advanced Special Certification in Hepatitis B in 2006. Dr. Nahass was named the winner of Princeton HealthCare System's 2008 Distinguished Physician Humanitarian Award for his work with patients with AIDS over the last 20 years.

He is a past President of the Medical Staff and is the Hospital Epidemiologist at Somerset Medical Center. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the RWJMS for which he was given the volunteer faculty award for 2010. He is an attending physician at Somerset Medical Center, Saint Peter’s University Hospital, RWJUH, the University Medical Center at Princeton, and Morristown Memorial Hospital. He is currently President of ID Care, a 24 physician single specialty practice for Infectious Diseases that operates out of 6 offices and 14 hospitals in North and Central New Jersey.

Dr. Nahass was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, the Medical Society of New Jersey, the NJ Infectious Diseases Society, and the International AIDS Society. Dr. Nahass is a member of the clinical affairs committee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. He has been awarded the American Medical Association’s Physician Recognition Award for Continuing Medical Education with a special commendation for self directed learning.

He was named “Top Doctor in NJ” by New Jersey Monthly magazine in 1996, 2003, 2005-2009 and by the Castle, Connolly Guide to Medical Professionals annually since 1997. He was also named one of the “Best Doctors in America” for 2001-2009 by Best Doctors. He is a frequent lecturer on various infectious disease topics including HIV, hepatitis, bioterrorism, and sexually transmitted diseases. He is a reviewer for the Archives of Internal Medicine, has published extensively, presented at numerous national meetings and has extensive clinical research experience in HIV and AIDS.