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Specialty Services To Expand in Somerset
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Over the next several months, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group will be expanding the pediatric-related specialty services at the World's Fair Drive practice in Somerset and enhancing the look and feel of the site to be more patient-friendly. In addition to the general pediatric services currently available, the following specialties will also be on-site for our pediatric patients: adolescent medicine, allergy and immunology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, neurology, pulmonary medicine, and rheumatology. Additional specialties are being considered for the future.
The expansion is part of the practice's commitment to providing comprehensive, multidisciplinary services with increased access to exceptional care, in a convenient location with ample free parking.
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GI Division Adds Important Advance in Liver Disease Management
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 This month, the medical group began offering an innovative, non-invasive option in liver disease diagnosis and management.
Called FibroScan, the device -- the first to be FDA-cleared as an aid to management of patients with liver disease -- uses an ultrasound elastography technique to non-invasively measure liver stiffness, thus helping diagnose and monitor the evolution of liver diseases such as cirrhosis. It is painless, fast (10 minutes or less), provides immediate results, and can be repeated safely, allowing for accurate monitoring of liver health over time.
"This allows us to forego liver biopsies in many patients," says
Vinod K. Rustgi, MD, MBA, professor of medicine, clinical director of gastroenterology and director of hepatology at the medical school. "As we expand our hepatology service, this will be an essential part of evaluation not available in most clinical facilities."
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Students View Purple Rain to Study Addiction
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 The Department of Psychiatry partnered with the Center of Alcohol Studies to host a screening of Purple Rain at The Heldrich hotel on Thursday evening. The evening included a live Twitter discussion of the film, turning the screening into an educational session. Led by Anthony Tobia, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, the screening allowed medical students, residents and Rutgers students in the CAS Summer School of Alcohol Studies, along with online followers, to discuss drug misuse and addiction themes within the movie using the Twitter hashtag #ssaspurple.
The image above was posted by Twitter user @TausifBillah during the screening.
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Congratulations to the following faculty members on recent grant awards and publications:
D
erek B. Sant'Angelo, PhD, professor of pediatrics at the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, received a five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the "Contribution of Innate-like Tregs for Preventing Tissue Inflammation" in the amount of $1,987,500. This is the third NIH grant awarded to Dr. Sant'Angelo this year.
Daniel S. Pilch, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology, was awarded a new five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $1,956,391 for "Development of New Antibiotics Against Multidrug-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)."
Alexey Ryazanov, PhD, professor of pharmacology, is a co-author of "A Critical Role of TRPM7 As an Ion Channel Protein in Mediating the Mineralization of the Craniofacial Hard Tissues," in
Frontiers in Physiology. Front. Physiol., 06 July 2016 doi:10.3389/fphys.2016.00258
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laden-Roko Rasin, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience and cell biology, is the corresponding author of "The RNA binding protein HuR determines the differential translation of autism-associated FoxP subfamily members in the developing neocortex," published in Scientific Reports. Graduate student
Tatiana Popovitchenko;
Kevin Thompson, PhD, a former graduate student; and
Barbara Viljetic, PhD,
a visiting postdoc in Dr. Rasin's laboratory, are among the co-authors on the paper. Scientific
Reports 6, Article number: 28998 (2016);
doi
:10.1038/srep28998.
Yufang Shi, PhD, DVM, professor of pharmacology, is one of the lead authors on "TNF
α-activated mesenchymal stromal cells promote breast cancer metastasis by recruiting CXCR2
+neutrophils," published in
Oncogene advance online publication 4 July 2016; doi: 10.1038/onc.2016.217.
Arnold Rabson, MD, professor and director of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, was among the co-authors on the study.
Zhiping Pang, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience and cell biology at the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, is co-author of a publication in
Nature Neuroscience: "Sequential regulatory loops as key gatekeepers for neuronal reprogramming in human cells." (2016)
Nature Neuroscience. Jun;19(6):807-15.
Davide Comoletti, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience and cell biology at the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, is co-author of a study recently published in
Nature Communications: "Supercomplexes of adhesion GPCRs and neural guidance receptors."
(2016)
Nature Commun. Apr 19; 7: 11184.
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nna Vetrano, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, is co-inventor on a recently issued patent titled, "Furyl and thienyl triazole derivatives and therapeutic uses thereof" (US Patent #9, 290, 484), along with Jeffrey Laskin, Diane Heck, Geraldine Guillon, Thomas Finetti, Angela Hunter, Christophe Guillon, Robert Rapp, and Ned Heindel.
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On the Social (Media) Scene...
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The student-run HIPHOP program, overseen by
Susan Giordano, program coordinator, is partnering with the Medical Society of New Jersey (MSNJ) and New Jersey Medical School at a health fair tomorrow in New Brunswick. MSNJ, led by alumnus Joseph Constabile, MD, promoted the event on its Facebook page earlier this week:
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Did You Know?
The medical school has twice undergone changes to the university to which it belonged, but it was 30 years ago -- in 1986 -- that the school changed its name from Rutgers Medical School to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in honor of the New Jersey business leader who built New Brunswick-based Johnson & Johnson into a worldwide corporation. The school's primary teaching affiliate, Middlesex General Hospital, changed its name to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at the same time.
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