As outlined in the Authority's by-laws, the Authority consists of seven members, three of whom are ex-officio (namely: the Commissioner of Health, the Commissioner of Human Services and the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance).

(Serves during her term as Commissioner of the Department of Health)

New Jersey Health Commissioner Dr. Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM, Chairperson

Dr. Kaitlan Baston, MD, MSc, DFASAM, was nominated by Governor Philip D. Murphy to begin serving as Commissioner of Health on July 25, 2023, and was confirmed on March 18, 2024.

Before becoming New Jersey’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Kaitlan Baston built and led the Cooper Center for Healing, an integrated pain, addiction, and behavioral health center, and was an Associate Professor of Medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

Commissioner Baston began her career as a full-spectrum family physician focused on underserved populations. Before arriving in New Jersey, her work ranged from public health projects in Rwanda to public maternity and trauma hospitals in the Dominican Republic, providing full spectrum family planning services and working in a bilingual community health center in Seattle, Washington.

Her experiences in primary care highlighted that both patients and medical professionals suffer from the lack of addiction medicine training and integration into healthcare. Following her addiction medicine fellowship, she came to Camden in 2015, driven to improve community-centered health care delivery, population health, and behavioral health. 

In the following seven years, she built an inpatient addiction consult service, multiple interdisciplinary outpatient clinics, a wrap-around perinatal substance use disorder program, a harm reduction-based low-barrier walk-in clinic, and the first program for emergency medicine services (EMS) field initiation of medication for addiction treatment.

She led undergraduate and graduate addiction medical education and started a new addiction medicine fellowship. Her research team was responsible for bringing in and overseeing several million dollars in state and federal grant funding to support innovation and community-based care and to address social determinants of health.

This work expanded to state and federal-level health policy, and Commissioner Baston became the Medical Director of Government Relations at Cooper University Health Care in 2019. She is nationally recognized for her work in perinatal substance use disorders and EMS delivery of addiction treatment. 

She has spoken to Congress and the American Bar Association and is a national educator for Zero to Three. She has served on national-level committees, including the Infant Toddler Court Program Expert Advisory Group, the American Academy of Pediatrics Head Start National Expert Workgroup, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Opioid Task Force, and the American College of Obstetricians and the Gynecologists Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health Opioid Collaborative Workgroup. She has also served on the New Jersey DMHAS State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup, the New Jersey ATLAS State Advisory Committee, the Camden County Addiction Awareness Task Force, and the Camden County Opioid Settlement Funds Board. 

In 2011, she was awarded the Savacool Prize in Medical Ethics. She has been recognized as a New Jersey Top Doctor or Top Female Doctor every year from 2017 to 2023. She won the Golden Apple Teaching Award in 2021, the New Jersey Healthcare Innovation Hero Award in 2022, and the New Jersey Hospital Association Healthy New Jersey Award in 2023.

Currently, Commissioner Baston is focused on decreasing health disparities, improving maternal-child health outcomes, and enhancing integrated care for behavioral health and substance use disorders.

As Health Commissioner, she strives to ensure everyone has access to resources that can keep them healthy and compassionate, evidence-based medical care when needed. Commissioner Baston is proud to work with an interdisciplinary team of like-minded, driven individuals at the Department of Health who are dedicated to improving the equity and health of New Jersey.

Commissioner Baston is dual-boarded in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine, obtained a master’s degree in Neuroscience from Kings College, London, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA.

Sarah Adelman (Serves during her term as Commissioner of the Department of Human Services)

Sarah Adelman was named Acting Commissioner for the Department of Human Services as of January 16, 2021. Ms. Adelman previously served as the Deputy Commissioner at the New Jersey Department of Human Services, overseeing the Division of Developmental Disabilities, Division of Aging Services, and the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services, which operates the Medicaid/NJ FamilyCare program. Ms. Adelman also serves as the Commissioner’s designee on the Board of the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency.

Ms. Adelman has worked in Medicaid and health policy for more than a decade, previously serving as Vice President at the New Jersey Association of Health Plans and Chief of Staff at the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute. Ms. Adelman also previously served on the Board of Trustees for Samaritan Healthcare and Hospice, the Board of Directors for a statewide child abuse and neglect prevention program, and the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey's Healthcare Steering Committee. Ms. Adelman was named among “New Jersey’s Top 10 Healthcare Policy Analysts and Experts” by NJ Spotlight. Ms. Adelman received her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Rowan University, a certificate in Advanced Healthcare Leadership from Seton Hall University, and was a fellow in the inaugural class of the New Jersey Healthcare Executives Leadership Academy.

Justin Zimmerman was appointed to lead the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance by Governor Philip D. Murphy in June 2023.

As Acting Commissioner, Zimmerman serves as the chief regulator of New Jersey’s insurance industry, one of the nation’s largest. Zimmerman oversees all state-chartered banks, credit unions, and consumer finance licensees and leads Get Covered New Jersey, the state’s official health insurance marketplace.

Zimmerman joined the department in January 2018, serving as chief of staff, overseeing the executive management team, and managing all aspects of the department’s policy implementation under the commissioner’s direction.

During his tenure as chief of staff, the department developed and implemented numerous consumer protections and programs impacting countless New Jerseyans, including New Jersey’s out-of-network law, student loan protections, mortgage servicers licensing, expanding access to reproductive health care, and Get Covered New Jersey.

Since its inception in 2020, Get Covered New Jersey has transformed New Jersey’s health insurance landscape for consumers in the individual market, ensuring that more New Jerseyans have greater access to quality, affordable health insurance. New Jersey was the first in the nation to open its marketplace with enhanced state subsidies that lower premiums for most enrollees.

Zimmerman also coordinated the department’s COVID-19 response, working with regulated entities across all sectors to provide relief to New Jersey’s residents during the pandemic, from insurance premium relief and mortgage forbearance to student loan relief and expanding telemedicine without cost sharing.

Acting Commissioner Zimmerman built an extensive career in public service. Before joining Governor Murphy’s administration, Zimmerman served as chief of policy and legislation to the New Jersey State Senate president pro tempore, where he focused on expanding access to quality and affordable healthcare for New Jerseyans and expanding voting rights and civil rights.

Mr. Zimmerman began his service to the public as a briefing aide to Governor Jon Corzine. Then, he became director of legislative and intergovernmental affairs for the New Jersey Department of State.

Before joining government service, he was an organizer in Morris County, New Jersey, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Acting Commissioner Zimmerman was born and raised in New Jersey and spent most of his childhood in Essex and Union Counties. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Mary Washington College.

Thomas J. Sullivan, Jr., is a New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority Public Member the New Jersey Senate approved on March 25, 2021. He is also a member of the Authority’s Finance and Evaluation Committees.

A lifelong Bergen County resident, Mr. Sullivan has served on the Bergen County Board of County Commissioners since January 2015.

As a commissioner, Tom also served on the Board’s Social Services, Shared Services, Labor and Personnel, Law and Public Safety, Transportation, Public Works, Community Development, and Planning and Economic Development committees.

Mr. Sullivan has had a long professional career with Local 164 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). Starting as an apprentice electrician, Tom learned the value of hard work and the opportunities it brings.

Through many years of innovation and commitment to his career, he became a journeyman and then an electrician. He was elected vice president of Local 164 in 2010 and president in 2013, a position he currently holds today.

Having served on Bergenfield’s Borough Council from 1998 until 2002 and Montvale’s Borough Council from 2005 until 2008, Tom also possesses an impressive history of community involvement and volunteerism.

Mr. Sullivan and his family currently reside in Montvale, New Jersey.

Bridget Devane, MSW, received the advice and consent of the Senate on June 20, 2022, and was then nominated to serve the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority by New Jersey Governor Philip D. Murphy. Ms. Devane has since served as a Public Member and Secretary. Her term expires on May 22, 2025.

Ms. Devane is the Public Policy Director for the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE), New Jersey's largest health care union representing registered nurses and health care professionals in acute care, long-term care, psychiatric, blood bank, and medical laboratory facilities.

Since 2004, her work at HPAE has focused primarily on improving working conditions for healthcare professionals across New Jersey, while advocating for patient safety measures to ensure better patient outcomes. Bridget oversees a department staff that monitors the ongoing consolidation of healthcare providers, assesses the financial state of healthcare operations in facilities across the State, and advocates for legislative and regulatory reforms to set standards for quality patient care and improve access to health care services.

Prior to accepting her current position with HPAE, Ms. Devane worked at New Jersey Citizen Action, a statewide consumer advocacy organization, working with patients and advocates to protect the financial interests of health care consumers. She received her Bachelor of Social Work from Ramapo College of New Jersey and a Master of Social Work from Hunter College.

Sam Maddali of Bernardsville, New Jersey, is a Public Member of the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority and its treasurer. He also chairs the Authority’s Finance and Evaluation Committees.

Mr. Maddali was nominated to serve the Authority by Governor Philip D. Murphy and confirmed by the New Jersey Senate on March 20, 2023. His term expires on May 22, 2025.

Mr. Maddali is the Chairman and founder of United Pharmacy Network, a group purchasing organization for independent pharmacies. He has served on various boards, including the Bouvé Strategic Advisory Council at Northeastern University, the Foundation for Morristown Medical Center, and the Governor’s Council on Mental Health Stigma. Sam was also awarded the NJ Pharmacist of the Year award by Senator Vin Gopal for his advocacy for the rights of independent, community pharmacies. 

Mr. Maddali is passionate about giving back and has been an active member of Rotary International for nearly three decades. He serves on the board of directors for the Eye Foundation of America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to eliminating avoidable blindness in underserved countries worldwide. He is also a trustee for Gift of Life International, an organization that champions life-saving heart surgeries for children worldwide by bringing them to the United States for treatment.

Sam received his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from Long Island University. Although a pharmacist by trade, his business interests have expanded to include business development, entrepreneurism, and real estate.

On October 26, 2024, the New Jersey State Senate confirmed Arthur Kapoor as a public member of the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority (NJHCFFA).

Kapoor is an entrepreneur with 35 years of experience building financial, clinical, and operational platforms that solve perplexing challenges for diverse industries. He is also the founder of the software development company Infotech Global, Inc., and co-founder of HealthEC, a fully integrated population health management (PHM) platform where he serves on the Board.

Kapoor is also the founder of the Akluyva Foundation, which helps orphaned Indian children receive food, clothing, education, and medical care. In 2011, Kapoor was knighted by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta for his charitable work worldwide.

Also active in academia, Kapoor is the co-executive vice chair of the Board of Directors of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).  He is an Executive Roundtable Member of the Republican Governors Association, (NJGOP), and contributes to many gubernatorial, local, and federal campaigns.

Kapoor’s term expires on April 30, 2028.

All Authority staff can be reached by telephone at (609) 292-8585 followed by the staff member's extension as listed below. To reach a staff member by facsimile, send the fax the individual's attention at (609) 633-7778.