Press Release
Date: 11-04-09Name: Terri Guess Phone: 973-972-7265
Email: guesstp@umdnj.edu
“Rescuing Health Care Reform” Subject of Free Lecture at UMDNJ
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NEWARK— New York Times best-selling author Mark Hyman, MD, will explore policies for health reform that also address the causes of chronic disease during a free lecture entitled, “Rescuing Health Care Reform: Treating the Causes of our Health Care Crisis.” The lecture will be held on Friday, November 6 from 12-1 p.m., in Room B522 of the UMDNJ Medical Science Building, 185 South Orange Avenue in Newark.
Hyman, a family physician who is vice chair of the board of directors and faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine in Washington state, will also share his observations on the process of policy change and strategies for effective health reform. He has testified before the U.S. Senate Working Group on Health Care Reform on Functional Medicine and the White House Stakeholders Meeting on Prevention and Wellness, and also has worked closely with the Congress and administration on health reform.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions, the UMDNJ-School of Nursing, The Healthcare Foundation Center for Humanism and Medicine and the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School.
For information contact Karen Malone at 973-972-8640 or malonek1@umdnj.edu.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) is the nation's largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,900 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and its only school of public health, on five campuses. Annually, there are more than two million patient visits at UMDNJ facilities and faculty practices at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a mental health and addiction services network.
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