President William F. Owen, Jr., held a series of Open Forum sessions this week in New Brunswick, Stratford, and Newark. Click here for the video archive of the forums, which are also available as podcasts.
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Michael Critchley, Jr., Esq., was sworn in as a UMDNJ trustee at the July 17 meeting of the University’s Board of Trustees. He is a partner at Critchley & Kinum in West Orange where he represents individuals and organizations in business and securities litigation. In addition to his responsibilities at the firm, he has counseled boards of directors and senior management on internal investigations as well as advised corporations on the implementation of comprehensive compliance systems.
Critchley was recommended by Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts under legislation signed last year by Governor Jon S. Corzine that expanded Board membership from 11 to 19 members. The Board now has 16 members.
The online, 30-credit Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Health Sciences program at UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions now features a new track in Integrative Health and Wellness. This track, which was designed by the faculty of the UMDNJ Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ICAM), focuses on preparing licensed and certified health professionals to expand their competencies in complementary and alternative medicine practices.
Emerging research regarding complementary and alternative modalities and their relationship to achieving optimal health provides the foundation for the curriculum. Integrative Health incorporates evidenced-based complementary and alternative modalities into Western Medicine, with a focus on helping each patient achieve optimal health and healing.
Teachers from elementary through high school spent a day this week on the Newark campus as part of a week-long science institute sponsored by Liberty Science Center. The program at UMDNJ was designed to help teachers develop lesson plans that include the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
The theme for Liberty Science Center’s Inaugural Summer Teacher Institute 2007 is “Healthy Bodies III: The Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems.” In keeping with this theme, faculty members from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions conducted a nutrition demonstration and presentations on stroke, cardiovascular physiology and disease, and health promotion for teachers from school districts in Hudson, Essex, Somerset, and Mercer counties.
