Deputy Conference Leader
Eric Munoz, M.D.

District 21 - Essex, Morris, Somerset & Union

Born: October 14, 1947
Education: B.A. University of Virginia (Pre-Med), M.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, M.B.A. Columbia University (Finance)
Legislative Service: General Assembly 2003-present, Assistant Leader 2006-present, Assistant Republican Whip 2004-05
Committees: Health & Senior Services, Human Services
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Assemblyman Eric Munoz, M. D., was sworn into office on May 10, 2001 filling the unexpired term of Assemblyman Kevin O’Toole.  On November 8, 2005 he was elected to his third full two-year term representing District 21, which includes 16 towns in Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union counties.  From 1995 to 2001 Dr. Munoz served as Councilman-at-Large for the City of Summit.  From 1998 to 2004 he also served as Chairman of the Summit City Republican Municipal Committee.

Assemblyman Munoz is serving on the Assembly Health and Human Services Committee and the Assembly Commerce and Economic Development Committee in the 2004-2005 Legislative Session.  He is also a member of the New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect, the Assembly Latino Caucus as well as a Member of the Board of the National Puerto Rican Coalition.  In January, 2006 he will become the Assembly Republican Deputy Conference Leader.

Assemblyman Munoz graduated from the University of Virginia in 1969.  He graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine with his Medical Doctorate in 1974; he completed his surgical training at Yale-New Haven in 1979.  Dr. Munoz earned his M.B.A. with a Major in Finance from Columbia University in 1983.

Dr. Munoz is a Professor of Surgery at the New Jersey Medical School and a Trauma Surgeon at UMDNJ - University Hospital, Newark, NJ. He also serves as President of the Medical Staff.  He is one of the first physicians to become actively involved in health delivery costs, quality and management as an academic discipline.  From 1990 to 2001 Dr. Munoz served as Chairman, of the Medical Practitioner Review Panel for the State of New Jersey having been appointed by former Governor Jim Florio and reappointed by Governor Christie Whitman.

In June, Dr. Munoz completed his term of service on the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health, he was appointed by United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy G. Thompson.  In 1992, Dr. Munoz was appointed by President George H. Bush to the 45th World Health Organization Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

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