Other leadership roles that Dr. Ivker has held include Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology at Newark Beth Israel, where his responsibilities included treating all of the children with cancer who were patients at the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey. He has also served as president of the Oncology Societies of New Jersey and of Essex County.

 

As a physician, he has received multiple awards and recognition for his outreach to the community on issues such as cancer screening and improving access to state of the art cancer treatments for underserved communities.

 

In honor of the birth of their first child fifteen years ago,Robert and his wife established a fund at the Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst to help Holocaust survivors who are living in poverty in Brooklyn. That charity is still going strong.