Press Release

For Immediate Release
Contact: Susan Preston
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At UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Noted Scientist Delivers Lecture for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Series

Series Funded by Prominent Princeton Physician

A noted Harvard Medical School scholar delivered the annual endowed lecture of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey on April 29 at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Dr. Joseph T. Coyle, Eben S. Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, will speak about glutamate, glia and psychosis. The lecture is the second in the Dr. Kenneth S. and Audrey S. Gould Lecture Series in Molecular and Cellular Medicine.

The Goulds, who reside in Princeton, have underwritten the series as part of the educational program of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, a comprehensive biomedical research center located on the New Brunswick campus of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

"We are delighted to have Dr. Coyle as our second Gould lecturer," said Dr. Robert Trelstad, acting director of the Child Health Institute. "He brings a lifetime of experience about the interface of behavior analysis and molecular explanations of how the nervous system operates."

The Goulds have been involved with the medical school for many years. Dr. Gould joined the faculty of the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1970, rising to the rank of professor of clinical psychiatry. He is a former member of the Governor's Committee on Children's Services and a past president of both the New Jersey Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Mrs. Gould, a member of the board of directors of the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, was the director of the orthoptic clinic at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for 26 years. In 1982, she joined Merrill Lynch as an investment counselor, and now she and her two daughters have a financial investment consulting group with Wachovia Securities in Princeton.

"We are extremely grateful to Audrey and Ken Gould for their outstanding contributions to UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School over many years," said Dr. Harold L. Paz, dean of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. "As leaders in our community, their efforts on behalf of the medical school have had a tremendous impact on those who we serve."

The Child Health Institute of New Jersey, whose new building is scheduled to open in 2005, was established by the medical school to improve child health and quality of life by discovering the causes of childhood diseases and how disordered development leads to illnesses that can continue into adulthood. Studying the dynamic biological interactions that occur during childhood development, its scientists are focused on providing new insights into disorders that affect development, growth, maturation, cognition and senescence.

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