New chief medical officer appointed at Clara Maass Medical Center

BELLEVILLE, NJ — Frank Dos Santos, a seasoned physician executive with more than 24 years of experience, has been appointed chief medical officer at Clara Maass Medical Center, a facility of RWJBarnabas Health in Belleville. 

“Dr. Dos Santos’ expertise in global health care and medical research is a perfect blend for our leadership team and for our community” said Mary Ellen Clyne, president and CEO of Clara Maass Medical Center. “He has established an impressive, stellar career as a seasoned physician executive and has leveraged his knowledge of medicine in various ways that will be a tremendous benefit to all and I look forward to working with him to move our strategic vision forward.”

Dos Santos was previously a clinical professor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and part of Envision Physician Services as an Emergency Medicine EmBassador Travel Team physician. Previously, Dos Santos was the chief medical officer for New York Network Management.

Other leadership roles Dos Santos held include: chief medical officer of Navy Medicine East in Portsmouth, Va., where he was responsible for a global Department of Defense health care system encompassing four continents, 10 hospitals, eight outpatient clinics and one dental clinic. Additionally, Dos Santos was a Navy and Marine Corps Emergency Medical Service leader for the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C., as well as being a senior medical officer in the U.S. Navy serving in Al-Taqaddum, Iraq. While serving in Naples, Italy, Dos Santos held two positions: chairperson of the Emergency Medicine Department for the U.S. Navy Hospital and head of the U.S. Navy Emergency Management Department; department head of Aviation Medicine at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Sigonella, Italy; and, lastly, he was a flight surgeon for the Naval Operational Medical Institute in Pensacola, Fla. 

Dos Santos earned a doctor of osteopathic medicine from Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, a graduate degree in public health from Rutgers University, and an undergraduate degree in biology from Kean University. He completed his internal medicine internship and emergency medicine residency at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, Calif., and a fellowship in emergency medical services and disaster medicine from Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center in New Brunswick. A participant in the Patient Safety Leadership Academy at John Hopkins Armstrong Institute in Laurel, Md., and the Chief Medical Officer Academy by The Joint Commission in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., Dos Santos has published many research studies.

  Clara Maass Medical Center, Health Care