The 23rd annual University Day will be held on Tuesday, September 18, at 12:30 p.m. in the auditorium of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey on the New Brunswick campus. The program will feature President Owen’s State of the University address, the presentation of the University Medal for Distinguished Leadership, and the introduction of new members of the Master Educators' Guild.
The Guild will host academic grand rounds beginning at 9:45 a.m. Guest speakers will discuss "Jumping the Hurdles of Interdisciplinary Implementation."
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Dr. Karen W. Lin, an associate professor of family medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and director of the family medicine residency program at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, has been selected as the 2007 New Jersey Family Physician of the Year by the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians (NJAFP).
The award is one of the Academy's highest honors and is given annually to a family physician who serves as a role model in his or her community as well as to other health professionals, especially young physicians and medical students. Dr. Lin will also be the NJAFP’s nominee for the 2009 American Academy of Family Physicians-Family Physician of the Year.
Dr. Gilla Kaplan, professor of medicine at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and associate director of the school's Public Health Research Institute, received a two-year, $1,549,287 grant from the Global Health Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine "how the role of immune pressure with a small molecule can enhance the effectiveness of TB chemotherapy."
She is also the recipient of a five-year $3,044,445 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Kaplan is an authority on how the immune system responds to new ways of treating TB.
Health professionals at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) are recruiting 100 civic-minded teenagers, between ages 13 and 18, to participate in a training program that will prepare them to share safer sex messages with their family, friends and community.
The safer sex initiative was developed by the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at NJMS with the goal of preparing youths to spread preventive health messages throughout greater Essex County to help combat the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Staff at NJMS will conduct one-day training sessions in which participants will have an opportunity to learn the facts about HIV and STIs, prevention methodologies, and outreach techniques.
