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Profiles were created following passage of a law that made it possible for the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs to give you information about the State's medical doctors, podiatrists and optometrists. The profiles include a great deal of information collected in one place, and we hope you will find them useful.

The Division believes that the profiles will prove to be an invaluable source of information for consumers. The Web site can be searched to locate medical doctors, podiatrists and optometrists practicing in a particular area or hospital. The profiles contain information about a practitioner's education, training, and practice. You may be able to find out if a practitioner speaks a familiar language or has an office accessible to persons with disabilities. You can research whether a medical doctor, podiatrist or optometrist has been the subject of disciplinary actions or whether he or she has made malpractice payments in the last five years. The profiles may also be used to help find a specialist or a practitioner who accepts your health plan. For a listing of the categories of information available to you on this site, click onto About the Profile.

More than 32,500 medical doctors (including osteopathic physicians), podiatrists and optometrists were contacted to provide information for their profiles. This site includes information on all such practitioners who are actively licensed and currently permitted to practice in New Jersey, as well as some practitioners whose licenses are suspended, revoked or voluntarily surrendered, or may have expired in the current renewal cycle.

You can search for a practitioner by name, field of medicine or optometry, hospital, county, or city/town. The Search Tips link will assist you in navigating the site.

The Division is dedicated to ensuring that profile information is current and accurate. We will be making changes to the profiles when new information becomes available.

Data found in the profiles may not be comprehensive. Certain information was self-reported by the practitioner and was not independently verified by the Division. Some practitioners have not yet reviewed their profiles; others have disputed information which the Division had believed was accurate. In those instances where information was disputed, the Division is making efforts to assure that any information ultimately posted on a profile is accurate. Until a dispute is resolved, the term "In Dispute" will appear on the profile, and disputed information will not be available for public display.

A note of caution about malpractice information found on the profiles: malpractice payments may be made for any number of reasons that may not necessarily reflect negatively on the professional competence or conduct of a practitioner. Some medical doctors practice in high-risk specialties and may be sued more often than other medical doctors practicing in lower-risk specialties. Some may take riskier cases than others, and be more likely to be sued and to make malpractice payments as a result. A payment in settlement of a malpractice action or claim should not be construed as creating a presumption that malpractice has occurred.

In addition, you are cautioned that the malpractice information that appears herein is based solely on information that has been reported to the Boards. All malpractice insurers and insurance associations that are authorized to issue malpractice liability insurance in New Jersey are required by law to provide notice of any settlement, judgment or arbitration award involving a New Jersey licensed medical doctor to the Board. Additionally, all licensed medical doctors who are not covered by malpractice liability insurance issued in New Jersey, have coverage through a self-insured health care facility or health maintenance organization, or have malpractice liability insurance issued by an insurer or insurance association from outside New Jersey are individually required to provide notice of all  malpractice claim settlements, judgments or arbitration awards to the Board. Notwithstanding the above provisions of law, information presently available to the Division suggests that there have been some instances where required reporting concerning malpractice payments has not been made to the Board. If a payment in a malpractice action was made but not reported to the Board, that information may not appear on the individual practitioner's profile, and, therefore, the information on any given practitioner's profile site regarding malpractice claims may be incomplete. The Division is presently exploring ways to seek to ensure that information required by law to be reported to the Board is in fact so reported.

We hope you will find this information helpful in making informed decisions about your health care providers.