April 20, 2018
The latest news and updates from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Dr. Donovan Honored with Leonard Tow Award
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Congratulations to
Colleen Donovan, MD
, assistant professor of emergency medicine, who is this year's faculty recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.
The award, sponsored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, is given annually to a member of the faculty who best demonstrates the foundation’s ideal of outstanding compassion in the delivery of care, respect for patients, their families, and healthcare colleagues, as well as demonstrated clinical excellence.
Chosen by our medical students, Dr. Donovan was announced as this year’s award winner during the Gold Humanism Honor Society Induction Ceremony earlier this month, to which Dr. Donovan was inducted. Students honored her at the event by saying, “Humanism to us means so much more than the professionalism we carry in a hospital setting. The way we’re taught in a classroom setting can mold us into physicians who can better communicate with our patients and has a direct impact on how we interact with others in the hospital. To us, no one has had a bigger impact on the entire student body than Dr. Donovan. Dr. Donovan leads our simulation sessions throughout medical school. She doesn’t just walk us through the next clinical steps but really immerses us in the proper way to address and interact with patients and team members in difficult situations. Not only is she a great teacher, but she serves as a role model to all of us students.”
The students also noted, “Dr. Donovan teaches us enthusiasm for teaching and medical education, engenders trust and confidence, and is approachable and accessible to us. She is committed to reflection and objective self-evaluation of not only our skills but of her own. Most, if not all, of the cases we work with during simulation are based on clinical cases that she has seen and learned from and she knew she could use to teach us valuable lessons. To us, she embodies everything the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine stands for. More informally, we think she’s awesome and really fun and has made our medical experience better. We know how much time she dedicated to teaching us and we want her to know all of us students really appreciate everything she does.”
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New Rutgers App Seeks to Reduce Infant Mortality
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The
SIDS Center of New Jersey
has published a new app, expanding its education program to prevent sudden infant death. The app,
SIDS Info
, supplements the program’s safe infant sleep education programs in order to keep New Jersey rates of sudden unexpected infant death among the lowest in the United States.
The free app was developed by
Barbara Ostfeld, PhD
, and
Thomas Hegyi, MD
, both professors in the Department of Pediatrics and the center’s program and medical director, respectively. It includes the American Academy of Pediatrics’ safe sleep guidelines for infants from birth to 12 months, as well as links to educational websites, a Q&A on safe infant sleep and resources, such as contact information for smoking cessation and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
SIDS Info
is available on
iPhone
and
Android
and was funded by the center through a grant from the New Jersey Department of Health. In addition to parents, the app is being promoted to professionals who interact with families at organizations such as hospitals, the Maternal and Child Health Consortia, the Division of Child Protection and Permanency and child care programs. The app also serves as a continuing education tool for health care providers, who can download courses on safe sleep for free.
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Faculty and Staff Photo Sessions Next Week!
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Faculty and staff
of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
are invited to take part in one of two free professional photo shoots planned this spring. Photos are used in the school’s print and online communications.
No appointment
is
necessary.
Digital copies of the photos are available upon request from the Department of Communications and Public Affairs approximately one week after your sitting. Please contact
Lauren Marshall
at
[email protected]
for a digital copy of your photo.
The shoots will be held:
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Piscataway Campus
Tuesday, April 24
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Great Hall
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
675 Hoes Lane West
Piscataway, NJ
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New Brunswick Campus
Monday, April 30
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Pre-function area of CAB 1302
Clinical Academic Building
125 Paterson St.
New Brunswick, NJ
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Dean Sherine Gabriel, MD, MSc, along with women deans from throughout the country, were highlighted in this photo posted to Twitter by Janis M. Orlowski, MD, MACP, chief health care officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges. The deans are members the AAMC's Council of Deans
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On
Saturday, April 28,
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School will have more than a dozen programs represented at Rutgers Day!
Stop by from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in front of the Student Center on College Avenue in New Brunswick to discover the DNA of strawberries, try your hands at robotic surgery and learn about germ control and staying active! In Piscataway, test your knowledge of disabilities, put together a model of a brain and have children bring a stuffed animal friend to be examined by our medical students!
Please share your Rutgers Day photos with us by tagging #RWJMS #RutgersDay on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram (be sure the posts are public)!
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Stahl Memorial Lecture in Bioethics
Tuesday, May 1, 4 p.m.
Joseph F. Fennelly, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Thomas Jefferson University
Topic:
Caring for Patients with Life-threatening Illness: Past, Present and Future
Location:
CAB, Room 1302
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Convocation and Commencement are less than a month away! Get detailed information, including parking registration and regalia purchase, on the University's
Commencement website.
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Latest Publications from the Department of Emergency Medicine
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Residents and faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine published five articles in the latest issue of the
Journal of Education & Teaching - Emergency Medicine (JETem),
an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal-repository for emergency medicine educators.
Osborn Waves
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James Elliot Karz, DO;
Grant Wei, MD;
and
Chirag Shah, MD
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Special Ground Rounds with N.J. Commissioner of Health on May 29
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Please save the date for a Special Grand Rounds on Tuesday, May 29, noon to 1 p.m., in CAB 1302, featuring
Shereef M. Elnahal, MD, MBA
,
New Jersey Commissioner of Health. D
r. Elnahal will provide an important update on the NJ Medical Marijuana program.
Click
here
to view all upcoming CME activities.
Paul Weber, MD, RPh, MBA
,
associate dean, Continuing Medical Education
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Updates from the Department of Medicine
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Catherine Monteleone, MD
, professor of medicine, was interviewed by WRNJ Radio on spring allergies and lectured to internal medicine housestaff on anaphylaxis.
Tanaya Bhowmick, MD
, assistant professor of medicine, participated in the “Women in Medicine” dinner panel at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School on April 11.
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