Amit R.T. Joshi, MD, FACS, FRCSEd (Hon)
Designated Institutional Official and Associate Dean, GME, Cooper Norcross Health
Amit R.T. Joshi, MD, FACS, FRCSEd (Hon)

Dr. Joshi is the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education/Designated Institutional Official and Professor of Surgery at Cooper Norcross Health and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University in Camden, NJ.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the American Board of Surgery’s SCORE—which is the national curriculum for surgery.  He was also the 2023-2024 President of the Association of Program Directors in Surgery.  In 2025, he was awarded an honorary fellowship (ad hominem) from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and was inducted as a Member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators of the American College of Surgeons.

At Brown University’s 8-year Program in Liberal Medical Education, he received his BA in Music in 1997 and MD (with academic distinction) in 2001. He completed his surgical residency at New York Presbyterian/Cornell and fellowship in minimally invasive surgery at North Shore/Long Island Jewish Hospitals.  He is certified by the American Board of Surgery (ABS).  His clinical interests include general surgery with a focus on hernia repairs.  His principal research interests are resident recruitment and curricular development within surgical training.  He has authored over 150 scientific manuscripts and presentations.

He has held leadership positions in many organizations:

  • Between 2010-2021, he was the residency Program Director and Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs for the Department of Surgery at Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia.
  • Prior member of the Board of Directors of the ABS.  He has been an oral board examiner since 2016.
  • American College of Surgeons, having served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors as Lead of the Education Pillar and on the International Affairs Committee.
  • Member of the 2nd Blue Ribbon Committee on Optimal General Surgery Training
  • Executive Committee, Educational Quality Improvement Project (EQIP) of the APDS
  • Past-President of the Philadelphia chapter of the American College of Surgeons
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Surgical Education
  • Co-chair of the Planning Committee of the Coalition of Physician Accountability.
  • Member, Committee on Certification for the American Board of Medical Specialties
  • Founding Secretary/Treasurer of the International Collaborative of Surgical Education and Training (ICOSET), and program committee member for meetings in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2022 and 2025 and Mexico City in 2026.
  • 2022 awardee of the ACGME’s Palmer Award for Program Director Excellence.
  • Member, International Surgical Society
  • Vice-President, Early Music America