Board Certified in Nephrology and Internal Medicine, Dr. Matera completed his Internal Medicine training at Union Hospital prior to his fellowship in Nephrology at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. He joined the practice in 1994. He has served as chairman of Graduate Medical Education at CentraState Medical Center since 1996 and Chairman of Medicine of the hospital from 2001 until 2004. He is assistant Medical Director of the DCI @ CentraState Dialysis Unit. He served the Assistant Chief of Staff at CentraState from 2007-2008, Chief of Staff from 2008 through 2010, and has been elected Physician of the Year there in 2004 and again in 2007 by his peers. He has achieved the distinction of Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Internists in 2005. He has been elected to the "Best Doctors" lists for the past 3 years.