Kusum Punjabi

Kusum Punjabi, assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, was elected Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, a national organization formed in 1982 that is composed of more than 80,000 practicing physicians in the U.S. Punjabi also has the honor of being the youngest to ever hold the position and the first person to have completed medical school in the U.S.