Meet Our Provider, Dr. Jamie Oberman
Jamie Oberman, MD, FACS received his B.A. from Boston College and M.D. from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA., where he was on scholarship with the Navy.
Dr. Oberman completed his Pediatrics Internship/General Surgery Internship/and Otolaryngology residency training at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA. Dr. Oberman completed two tours as a staff Otolaryngologist in both Okinawa, Japan and Jacksonville, FL. While on staff in Jacksonville he served a two-year term as the President of the Medical Staff as well as serving as their Communication in Healthcare Course Director.
He is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences from 2011-2017. He was also recognized by Jacksonville Magazine as “Best of Otolaryngology in 2011.”
He completed training at the Naval Undersea Medical Institute (NUMI) in Groton, CT and the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, FL in 1997. His operational tours for the US Navy include Submarine Squadrons SIX, EIGHT in Norfolk, VA, and being the Senior Diving Medical officer for Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group TWO in Little Creek, VA. During his operational tours, he served as the Tidewater regional diving casualty and clinical hyperbaric expert consultant, and also covered for the SUBLANT Senior Medical Officer. He also established a SCUBA training program for submarines on the waterfront. Dr. Oberman deployed on the USS Narwhal submarine receiving his submarine medical officer qualification and performed underwater explosive surveillance during OPSAIL 2000 in NYC harbor, summer 2000. He was honored as the USN-wide “Undersea Medical Officer-of-the-Year for 1999.”
After retiring from the US Navy in 2017, Dr. Oberman joined the Becker ENT practice, an affiliate of the University of Pennsylvania System in Princeton, NJ, and was appointed the inaugural Medical Director for the Patient Experience at the Princeton health system campus of UPENN. He transitioned closer to family in 2018 and joined the Frederick Health Medical Group. He was instrumental in establishing their inaugural Otolaryngology department.
Dr. Oberman is married to Margaret (Meg) Ann Perusse Oberman, MD, MPH, FACP of Litchfield, CT, and currently resides in Montgomery County, MD. They have three children.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Summa Cum Laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Alpha Sigma Nu
- BC Trustees Academic Scholarship
Naval Honors -
- Naval Rank - CAPTAIN - O-6
- 1999 Diving Medical Officer of the Year
Naval Duty Assignments -
- Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Groton, Connecticut
- Panama City, Florida
- Okinawa, Japan
- Walter Reed, Maryland
- 2011 - US Navy Otorhinolaryngology Specialty Leader/ Advisor to the US Navy Surgeon General
- 2011 - Voted "Best of Otolaryngology in 2011" - Jacksonville Magazine
- 2013 - "Young Physician Leader" American Academy of Otolaryngology/ Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO/HNSF)
- Medical Director, Patient Experience, Princeton Health, University of Pennsylvania
- President of the Medical Staff, Naval Hospital Jacksonville, FL - 2001 - 2013
- Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences from 2011 - 2017
- Faculty at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- National Faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Excellence (IHE), Ponte Vedra, FL . 2010 - Present
- Princeton Health Campus, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, NJ
