May 31, 2019
The latest news and updates from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Dr. Leonard Lee Named Finalist in
NJBIZ
Awards
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Leonard Y. Lee, MD, James W. Mackenzie MD Endowed Chair in Surgery and professor and chair, Department of Surgery, has been selected by
NJBIZ as a finalist in its 2019 Healthcare Heroes Awards. The awards honor individuals and organizations making a significant impact on the quality of healthcare in New Jersey.
Dr. Lee is one of eight finalists for the "Physician of the Year" award. Finalists will be honored and the winner announced at a special event Tuesday, June 18, at The Palace at Somerset Park.
In addition to the Physician of the Year, awards will be presented to individuals and organizations in the following categories: Education Hero--Individual and Organization, Healthcare Professional, Innovation Hero, Nurse of the Year, Public Health Hero, Volunteer of the Year, and Workplace Wellness Hero.
View a full list of the finalists, and additional information about the Healthcare Heroes Awards ceremony
here.
Congratulations, Dr. Lee, on this achievement!
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Bariatric Surgery Can Be Safe, Effective for Adolescents, Study Finds
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Pediatricians often are reluctant to recommend bariatric surgery for teenagers, but a new study has found it is a justifiable treatment for adolescents with persistent extreme obesity, if they can maintain a healthy lifestyle afterward.
The study, led by
Ahmed Khattab, MD, pediatric endocrinologist and assistant professor of pediatrics, was published in
The Journal of Pediatrics.
"If we look at obesity as a disease with the real possibility of eventual organ system failure and special health concerns for adolescents, we need to ask whether health care practitioners are doing enough to manage it," says Dr. Khattab. "The objective evidence shows that, under the right circumstances and with the right patients, bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for adolescents with obesity."
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Targeting Key Gene Could Help Lead to Down Syndrome Treatment
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Targeting a key gene before birth could someday help lead to a treatment for Down syndrome by reversing abnormal embryonic brain development and improving cognitive function after birth, according to a Rutgers-led study, published in the
journal
Cell Stem Cell.
The study, whose researchers included
Zhiping P. Pang, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience and cell biology, and
Jing-Jing Liu, who served as a post-doc in Dr. Pang's lab at the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, used a living 3D "organoid" model of the brain
(pictured left, in a photo by Ranjie Xu, lead author) and mouse model to investigate early brain development linked to Down syndrome. The results suggest that the human chromosome 21 gene OLIG2 is potentially an excellent prenatal therapeutic target to reverse abnormal embryonic brain development, rebalance the two types of neurons in the brain, and improve postnatal cognitive function.
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Pediatric Specialty Services Expand to Edison
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The
Department of Pediatrics has expanded its pediatric specialty care services through Rutgers Health to a new site in Edison.
Specialty services available include adolescent medicine, pediatric cardiology, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric gastroenterology, and pediatric pulmonology, with additional specialties expected to be added.
The new offices are located on the first floor at 1802 Oak Tree Road, in the same suite as 7 Days Pediatrics.
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New Neurocritical Care Unit Opens at RWJUH
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Medical school faculty and staff, including
Kiwon Lee, MD, professor of neurology, chief of the Division of Stroke and Neurocritical Care and medical director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
(pictured center with John J. Gantner, president and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, at far left), and
Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut, MD, professor and chair of neurology and Ruth Dunietz Kushner and Michael Jay Serwitz Chair in Multiple Sclerosis
(far right), celebrated the ribbon-cutting for the 15,000-square-foot Neurocritical Care Unit at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. The special dedication program for the state-of-the-art unit was held May 20.
With 15 high-tech patient rooms that are double the size of those in the previous unit, the new unit features the most advanced technology designed specifically for the care of the critically ill and injured neurology and neurosurgery patients. It also includes one of the most advanced neuroimaging and multimodality monitoring systems in the nation.
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MyRounding is under way and our leaders have been rounding on their direct reports. They are also using the stoplight reports to identify and address issues, with 10 days being the average time to close those identified issues! Awesome work!
We see the great work many of you are doing and thank you for adopting and utilizing this new tool. We also know there are many of you who still need some assistance in getting the tool up and running – give it a try; it’s quite intuitive, and you may be surprised by how much there is to gain from the tool.
And a little healthy competition may help to motivate you to use the tool a bit more!
Who is our MyRounding champion this month?
The winner is…..
Kathleen Brown
, practice manager for Ambulatory Surgery, who has completed the most rounds using the MyRounding Tool! Congratulations to Kathy and her team for the phenomenal work they do every day, maintaining a true
Patients First
approach.
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Though the regularly scheduled series programming is waning for this academic and training year, I highlight the
Department of Psychiatry
's Grand Rounds presentation, "Recurrent Abdominal Pain in Children: A Bio-Psycho-Social Model," by
Madhusmita Sahoo, MD
, a fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, on Thursday, June 6, from 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. in the Chair's Conference Room (Room D203) at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, Piscataway.
Paul F. Weber, MD, RPh, MBA
, associate dean, Continuing Medical Education
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