St. Michael's Doctors Win 1st Place In National 'Medical Jeopardy' Competition: Newark

Newark, NJ – A team of residents from Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark took home first place in the American College of Physician’s medical Jeopardy-style competition known as Doctor’s Dilemma earlier this month.

According to a news release, Saint Michael's is the first team from New Jersey to win the competition since it began 22 years ago.

The team consisted of doctors Ahmad Abuarqoub of Hackensack, Amer Hawatmeh of Woodland Park, Sahitya Posimreddy of Harrison, and Parijat Sen and Nedal Matani, both of Newark.

The Saint Michael's team won the privilege of representing New Jersey's chapter after it defeated teams from Newark Beth Israel, Atlanticare Health, Trinitas Regional Medical Center, and Saint Barnabas Medical Center in the final round of state level competition in March.

During the competition, held at the ACP's Internal Medicine meeting in Washington, D.C., Saint Michael’s prevailed over 50 teams from states across the country, each representing an ACP chapter, as well as teams from the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force and from Central America, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Southeast Asia.

“Each member of the team demonstrated this weekend the same dedication and commitment they have made to their professional development and patients throughout their residency training,” said Joseph DePasquale, chief academic officer and program director of internal medicine at Saint Michael’s.

“They are an outstanding group of men and women of whom we are very proud and we thank them for their contribution to St. Michael’s continuing legacy of graduate medical education excellence,” DePasquale added.

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