Nov. 9, 2018
The latest news and updates from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Military Personnel Continue to Serve
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Siobhan Corbett, MD
, associate professor of surgery,
photographed with her son Jay, who is
a midshipman in the U.S. Naval Academy
, volunteered to apply her trauma and general surgery experience during a medic training for the United States National Guard.
“I feel strongly that military personnel should have every possible medical resource to support them when they deploy. When it seemed that I could help in this effort, I jumped at the chance,” says Dr. Corbett.
The cadavers of military veterans are being used to prepare medics to treat the devastating injuries they will encounter when deployed through a unique collaboration between Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the National Guard. About 20 percent of the cadavers were former military personnel who had decided to donate their bodies to science to train those who would be called on to help others after they were gone.
“It’s easy to work on a mannequin and not fully grasp the seriousness of what you are taking on. But working with real tissue, that experience is invaluable,” says Capt. Justin Howe, whose wife,
Caitlin Howe, PhD
, is an instructor in the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology. The goal of the two-part session is to give medics a similar experience to what they would encounter in the field.
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Students Stand Up for the Transgender Community
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The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking to define transgender people by narrowly defining gender as “a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth.” The introduction of this language comes in a proposed alteration to Title IX, the federal law that protects against gender discrimination in education. If implemented, this language could have disastrous effects for transgender people across the country and would roll back the limited legal protections gained by the transgender community over the past few years.
As future medical professionals, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School students joined in solidarity
to show their support for transgender friends, family, colleagues and patients.
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Women, White Coats and War
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The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School chapter of the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) is hosting
Women, White Coats and War: Exploring the Role of Women Physicians in WWI
on
Dec. 5
. Cosponsored by the Library of Science and Medicine, the event takes place from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. on the First Floor Conference Room of the library in Piscataway, and includes an exhibition and film viewing, food and beverages,
as well as an opportunity to network.
Launched in commemoration of the First World War Centenary, AMWA’s Women Physicians in World War I exhibition highlights the trailblazing work of American female physicians during the war effort. In addition to browsing the exhibition, guests can watch a screening of
At Home and Over There: American Physicians in World War I
, a short, 15-minute film. Read more about the exhibition from the AMWA
here
.
The entire medical school community is invited to attend this first-ever Women in White Coats event to celebrate female physicians from yesterday and today while networking with alumni, faculty and students. To register,
click here
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Social Media Post of the Week
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Alumni, Faculty, Staff and Students attend AAMC Conference
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Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School Deans
Sherine E. Gabriel, MD, MSc
(
third from left
), and Robert Johnson, MD (
far left
), respectively
, co-hosted a reception for alumni and friends during the Association of American Medical Colleges' Annual "Learn Serve Lead" Conference on Nov. 3, in Austin, TX.
Alumni from all over the country caught up with faculty and staff, and met students and members of the medical school community.
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Faculty Receives Grants of $500K+
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The following faculty members were awarded $500K+ grants from September through October 2018:
James Millonig, PhD
,
associate professor of neuroscience and cell biology, together with a team,
was awarded a $4 million, five-year grant from the
Governor’s Council for Medical Research and Treatment of Autism
to launch The New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence
.
Peter D. Cole, MD
, professor of pediatrics, was awarded a $3,417,089, five-year, multi-PI R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for “Identifying Children with Subclinical Neurocognitive Decline and Susceptibility to Oxidate Manage during the Early Months of Therapy for All.”
Carolyn J. Heckman, PhD
, associate professor of medicine, transferred her $2,049,716 NIH R01 grant to study “Modifying young adult skin cancer risk and protective behaviors (UV4.ME2) a hybrid type 2 dissemination/effectiveness trial.”
Advaitha Madireddy, PhD
, assistant professor of pediatrics, is the recipient of a three-year, $747,000 R00 grant from the NIH to explore “The Multifaceted Role of the Fanconi Amemia Tumor Suppressor Pathway in Facilitating DNA Replication.”
Hue Zhang, PhD
, assistant professor of neuroscience and cell biology, was awarded a three-year, $726,333 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity to work together with
Mladen Roko Rasin, MD, PhD
, professor of neuroscience and cell biology,
and
David Crockett, PhD
, assistant professor of neuroscience and cell biology, for “Targeting Novel Neurotrophin Effectors for Treating Posttraumatic Epilepsy.”
Marc L. Steinberg, PhD
, associate professor of psychiatry, was awarded a three-year, $715,500 R33 grant from the NIH titled “Persistence Targeted Smoking Cessation in Schizophrenia (PTSC-S).”
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Pioneers in STEM: Advancing Women's Health and Wellness
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You are invited to a special lecture on
Wednesday, Nov. 14
, featuring Vivian W. Pinn, MD, founding director (retired), Office of Research on Women's Health and senior scientist emerita, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Pinn will be discussing “Pioneers in STEM: Advancing Women's Health and Wellness” at the Arline and Henry Schwartzman Courtyard (1 Robert Wood Johnson Place) in New Brunswick. The lecture will begin at noon.
Dr. Pinn was the inaugural full-time director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the NIH from 1991, and associate director from 1994 until her retirement in 2011. Under Dr. Pinn's leadership, the new office led the implementation of NIH research inclusion policies, developed the first-ever, and several subsequent, national strategic plans for women’s health research and established many new research funding initiatives and career development programs.
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News from the Department of Ob/Gyn
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Cande V. Ananth, PhD, MPH
, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, has been elected to membership at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute.
Medical students
Frederick Bosoy
(
left
) and
Katherine
Scherzo
(
right
) presented their work on postpartum mood disorders at the Semi-Annual New Jersey Obstetrics and Gynecology meeting.
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Faculty Spoke at Infant and Maternal Mortality Summit
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Shilpa Pai, MD, FAAP
, assistant professor of pediatrics, spoke about black infant mortality as part of a panel at the "Engaging WIC and Community Partners" Summit in Trenton.
Barbara Ostfeld, PhD
, professor of pediatrics, spoke at the summit as well about safe infant sleep.
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The
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health's
Grand Rounds next week on Nov. 13 titled "Autoimmune Encephalitis: Phenotypes, Antibiodies, and Appropriate Testing," addresses a very serious and less common illness. Just last week, I learned that the undergraduate brother of a former student had been hospitalized for nearly three weeks with this condition before finally awakening. The presentation by Eric Lancaster, MD, will be held in MEB 259 from 8 - 9 a.m.
Click
here
to view all upcoming CME activities.
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Paul F. Weber, MD, RPh, MBA
, associate dean, Continuing Medical Education
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