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In addition to directing the Newark Sleep Disorders Center, Dr. Karetzky is Assistant Director of Medicine at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (since 1976); Director of Pulmonary Medicine (since 1976);* Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit (since 1983); Director of Critical Care Medicine (since 1988); and Attending Physician, Department of Medicine and Attending Physician, Department of Pulmonary Medicine at New Jersey Medical School (University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey-- UMDNJ), Newark (since 1976).

Dr. Karetzky has been Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at New Jersey Medical School, UMDNJ, Newark, since 1997, and prior to that appointment, from 1976 to 1997, he served as Associate Professor of Medicine.  Dr. Karetzky has also held university positions at Rutgers Medical School (Piscataway); Albert Einstein Medical School, Bronx, New York; and Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire.      

Dr. Karetzky is licensed by the states of New Jersey, New York, and New Hampshire.  He is certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners with a specialty in Internal Medicine and subspecialties in Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Geriatrics Medicine, and Nutrition Support.

He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Cornell University and did his postdoctoral residency at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York, in cardiopulmonary disease and physiology (1965-1967).

Dr. Karetzky is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Angiology, Royal Society of Medicine, and Academy of Medicine of New Jersey.

 *The May-June 2002 issue of Modern Maturity, published by AARP (the American Association of Retired Persons), includes Newark Beth Israel as one of the top ten hospitals in the United States for pulmonary care.  The list of medical centers was prepared by Consumer Checkbook, Inc., a “nonprofit consumer information and source resource.”