President's Page
Barry Prystowsky, M.D.
Dr. Prystowsky has been an active member in the Society for twenty years and a strong advocate for public health in New Jersey with a particular focus on the needs of children and their families.Throughout the years, Dr. Prystowsky has initiated public health policies of the Medical Society of New Jersey (MSNJ). He formed and chaired The Domestic Violence Committee which was instrumental in passing legislation designating women’s and children’s domestic violence centers. Dozens of regulations and legislative bills in social service, public health and in patient advocacy were initiated through his long term participation in the County and State Medical Societies.He is co-founder of the Children’s Emergency Medical Fund of New Jersey. a charity created by Dr. Prystowsky’s father, Dr. Milton Prystowsky to cares for critically ill children not eligible for the State Catastrophic Emergency Fund.
Dr. Prystowsky co-founded the New Jersey Pediatric Society which for twenty years has served the needs of the entire office staff teaching: physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and office managers. This Society has been at the cutting edge of the physicians’ challenge to maintain quality healthcare and has reshaped office policy, billing procedures, appeal mechanisms, networking, and physician and patient advocacy. In addition, Dr. Prystowsky served as physician and patient advocate through his role on the Board of Directors of the Physicians’ Healthplan of New Jersey, on the Eastcoast Advisory Board of the FPA management company, and numerous insurance company health advisory committees, the Board of Trustees of the Academy of Medicine, and two terms as councilor to the American Academy of Pediatrics, New Jersey Chapter. He has also been a member of the Governor’s Council on Child Abuse, the Pediatric Clinical Advisory Committee to the Commissioner of Health, and the committee to establish New Jersey Kid Care.
A 1981 graduate of the UMD – NJ in 1981, Dr. Prystowsky trained in pediatrics at Montefiore Hospital in New York and Children’s Hospital in New Jersey. After completing his residency training, he joined his father’s pediatric practice in Nutley. He has served as the school physician for Nutley since 1997, teaches medical students and residents as Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the New Jersey Medical School, and continued in private practice.
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