Our Physicians Kenneth P. Rubin, M.D.
Kenneth P. Rubin, M.D.
A graduate of Rutgers University, Dr. Rubin earned his medical degree at the University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey. In 1972, he was awarded The Mosby Book Award as the top student in basic sciences following his first year of medical school; at his medical school graduation in 1975, he received The Lang Book Award for the highest performance in internal medicine.
Dr. Rubin’s post-graduate medical training included three years at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a fourth-year term as Chief Medical Reisdent. After a two-year fellowship in gastroenterology at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, Dr. Rubin was invited to continue as a full-time faculty member working closely with Dr. Henry Janowitz and Dr. David Sachar in the management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
An author of numerous scientific articles and chapters, Dr. Rubin has also been an invited speaker at medical grand rounds at hospitals in New York and New Jersey. He is a frequent selection on the Best Doctor List of both New York and New Jersey magazines.
Dr. Rubin is currently the Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. He previously served as the medical center’s Chief of Gastroenterology. He was a president of the New Jersey Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
A Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, he has continued to be actively involved in the teaching program in the Department of Gastroenterology. He has served as President of the Medical Staff of Englewood Hospital and was a ten year member of the Board of Trustees.
The New Jersey Chapter of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America presented CCFA’s 2006 Dr. David Kaufman “Physician of the Year Award” to Dr. Kenneth P. Rubin. Dr. Rubin was the second recipient of this prestigious award that was established in memory of Dr. Kaufman who died in 2002. Dr. Rubin has served the CCFA as Chariman of State’s Medical advisory committee as well as active member of the NJ CCFA Board of Trustees.
The Arnold Gold Foundation awarded Dr. Rubin with a Gold Doc Award in 2006 for sensitivity, kindness and compassion in the practice of medicine.
ACADEMIC DEGREES:
Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ B.A. 1971
New Jersey College of Medicine M.D. 1975
POST GRADUATE TRAINING:
Bronx Municipal Hospital Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Intern in Medicine 7/1/75-6/30/76
Junior Resident in Medicine 7/1/76-6/30/77
Senior Resident in Medicine 7/1/77-6/30/78
Mount Sinai Hospital - New York and Bronx V.A. Hospital
Fellow in Gastroenterology 7/1/79-6/30/81
CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chief Medical Resident 7/1/78-6/30/79
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Clinical Assistant 7/1/79-6/30/81
Instructor 7/1/81-6/30/82
Chief of Gastroenterology Motility Unit 7/1/81-6/30/82
Clinical Asst. Prof. of Medicine –
Division of Gastroenterology 7/1/82 – 6/2001
Christ Hospital – Jersey City, NJ 6/28/82-10/25/99
Active Medical Staff
Englewood Hospital - Englewood, NJ
Active Medical Staff July 1982-Present
Chief – Division of Gastroenterology 7/2000-Current
Holy Name Hospital – Teaneck, NJ
Active Medical Staff July 1989 – Present
Mount Sinai & Medical Center – New York, NY
Clinical Ass’t Professor of Medicine 7/1991-Present
Englewood Hospital & Medical Center – Englewood, NJ
Associate Chief of Gastroenterology 7/1993-6/1999
Chief of Gastroenterology 7/2000- Present
BOARD CERTIFICATION:
American Board of Internal Medicine 9/13/78
Subspecialty Board in Gastroenterology 11/10/81
MEDICAL LICENSURES:
New Jersey License
New York License
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Mosby Book Award for outstanding performance in Basic
Sciences from New Jersey College of Medicine June1972
Lange Book Award for highest achievement in Internal
Medicine from Jersey College of Medicine June 1975
Selected Best Doctor – NY Magazine June 2003
Selected Best Doctor – NJ Magazine Sept. 2003
Named as One of Top 5 Gastroenterologist in NJ
NJ Life Magazine March 2005
Received Dr. David Kaufman Award
Physician of Year from Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation Sept 2006
Received Gold Doctor Award
Award for Compassionate Care from Arnold Gold Foundation 2006
Selected Best Doctor – NY Magazine June 2007
Selected Best Doctor - NJ Magazine Nov. 2007
Selected Best Doctor – NY Magazine May 2008
Selected Best Doctor – NJ Magazine Nov. 2008
Selected Best Doctor – NY Magazine June 2009
Selected Best Doctor – NJ Magazine Nov. 2009
GRAND ROUNDS PRESENTATION AND INVITED LECTURESHIP:
Christ Hospital
Medical Grand Rounds – Topic: Inflammatory
Bowel Disease 1985
Surgical Grand Rounds – Topic: Percutaneous
Endoscopic Gastroscopy 1986
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Jacobi Hospital)
Medical Grand Rounds – Topic: Carbon Monoxide
Poisoning 1979
Clinical Pathology Conference – Invited Speaker -
Topic: Pleuro Pericarditis 1979
Cabrini Medical Center
Medical Grand Rounds – Topic: Disorders of
Gastrointestinal Motility 1981
New Jersey Society of Ileitis and Colitis –
Topic: Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease 1981
Mount Sinai Medical Center
GI Grand Rounds – Topic: Disorders of Anorectal Motility
Invited Lecturer – Symposium on Medical Complications of
Pregnancy 1981
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Endocrine Grand Rounds – Topic: Diabetic Gastroparesis 1981
Englewood Hospital
CPC – Topic: Fulminant Hepatic Failure 1982
Englewood Hospital
Course Director – Trend in Liver Disease March 1994
Englewood Hospital Medical Grand Rounds
Gerd & Esophageal Motility Diseases April 2001
Annual Meeting NJ Chapter Crohn’s & Colitis
State of the Art Medical Therapies in IBD Dec 2003
Invited Lecturer NJ Crohn’s & Colitis
Marriott Hotel, Newark, NJ
Capsule Endoscopy May 2004
Invited Lecturer Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of NJ
New & Old Treatment in Crohn’s Disease &
Ulcerative Colitis Nov 2004
Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colon Cancer.
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
CCFA Lecture May 2006
Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Past, Present and Future.
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
CCFA Education Lecture June 2009
SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATION:
Clinical Research Presentation. National Meeting of the
American Gastroenterological Association, Title - The
Rectosphinincteric Reflex in Patients with Total Colectomy
after Mucosal Protectomy. Chicago, 1982
Symposium on Management of Hepatitis C – Englewood
Hospital and Medical Center New Jersey, 1997
Annual Scientific Meeting of American College of Gastroenterology
Clinical Poster Presentation
Escolarrhea–Oily Diarrhea After Ingestion of Escolar Fish San Diego, Ca, 2009
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS:
Secretary Treasurer of EHMC Medical Staff 7/1996-6/1998
Vice President of EHMC Medical Staff 7/1998-6/2000
President of EHMC Medical Staff 7/2000-6/2002
Member Board of Trustees EHMC 7/2000-present
Member of Board of Trustee Crohn’s & Colitis of NJ 7/2003-present
Medical Advisor of Crohn’s & Colitis of NJ 7/2004-6/2007
PUBLICATIONS:
A. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
1. H. Jacob, K.P. Rubin, M.C. Cohen and I.J. Kahn: Gallstones in a
retroperitoneal abscess. A late Complication of perforation of the
gallbladder. Digestive Diseases and Sciences 24:964-967, 1979.
2. S. Factor, K.P. Rubin, and W.J. Frishman: Adult respiratory distress
syndrome one month following a myocardiac infaction. New York
State Journal of Medicine 81: 226-238, 1981.
3. K.P. Rubin, T.M. Heiman, F. Toban and B. Salky: The
rectosphinctoric reflex after total colectomy with musocal
proctectomy ( Abstr.) Gastroenterology.
4. K.P. Rubin and J. Fisher: Occult carbon monoxide poisoning.
Archives of Internal Medicine, July ,1982. Vol 142 p1270-1271.
5. S. Shaw, K.P. Rubin and C. Lieber: Depressed hepatic glutathione
And increased diene conjugates in ethanolic liver disease;
evidence of lipid peroxidation. Digestive Disease and Sciences
28: 585-589, 1983.
6. L.B. Cohen, K.P. Rubin, J.D. Wye, J.S. Trian: Duodenal
Ulcerations after monooctanoin therapy. Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy 30:49, 1984.
7. S.P. Field, D.B Sachar, C.C. Childs, and K.P. Rubin: Steroid
responsive Dysphagia: A Clue to the diagnosis of Esophageal
Lymphoma. The Mount Sinai journal of Medicine 51:451-
454, 1984.
8. J.K. Hester, C.A. Scheraldi, N. Singer, I Friedrich, K.P. Rubin
and S. Weisholtz: Concomitant babesiosis and lyme disease.
The Journal of the Englewood Hospital Medical Staff 3:4-7, 1986.
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9. D.B. Sachar, K.P. Rubin and V. Gumaste: Levamisole in the
Treatment of Crohn’s disease: A long term, randomized, double
blind clinical trial. American Journal of Gastroenterology 82:536-
539, 1987.
10. A. Cifelli, K.P. Rubin, I. Friedrich, S. Weisholtz and M. Sanchez:
The Endoscopic Diagnosis of Kaposi’s Sarcoma. The Journal of the
Englewood Hospital Medical Staff 4: 8-10, 1987.
11. J.S. Ruccuia, M. Kahn, Z. Farooki, K.R. Rubin and I.M.
Ibrahim; Intraoperative Endoscopy for the Diagnosis of Small
Bowel Hemangiomas. Contemporary Gastroenterology, 45-49,
1989.
12. K.P. Rubin, D. Ghanekar, I.A. Friedrich and V.S. Panella:
Endoscopic Diagnosis of Anorectal Melanoma. New Jersey
Medicine, Vol 89 No. 4 Pg. 301-10,1992.
B. INVITED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
13. K.P. Rubin and H.D. Janowitz: Diagnosis of acute pancreatitis.
Diagnosis 3: 98-107,1981
14. K.P. Rubin and H.D. Janowitz: The investigation of pancreatic
Function. Sandorama, in press, 1982.
15. J. Klingestein, K.P. Rubin and C.S. Lieber; Alcohol and the
Digestive tract. Chapter IX in Medical Disorders of Alcoholism:
Pathogenesis and Treatment; Major Problems in Internal
Medicine, 22: 363-411, 1982.
16. Kenneth P. Rubin, M.D. and Kenneth Friedman, PHD:
Gastrointestinal Symptoms in CFS, Chapter 10: A Consensus
Manual for the Primary Care and Management of Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome, 2002.