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 in New Brunswick.
The program will be available by V-tel in Newark at the New Jersey Dental School Oral Health Pavilion; in Statford at the School of Osteopathic Medicine auditorium; in Camden in Room 240; and in Scotch Plains in Room 330.
Parking in the Paterson Avenue Garage in New Brunswick is suggested for those who plan to drive.
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The UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) has established the Robert Wood Johnson Autism Center, a collaborative effort between the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, The Children's Specialized Hospital, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Center, under the direction of Dr. Michael Lewis, University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, will address the unmet needs of children with autism and their families.
The Autism Center will build on synergies in applied and clinical research with the affiliated hospitals of the medical school and its collaborative partners. In addition, the center will work with the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers as well as Children’s Specialized Hospital and Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune.
According to Dr. Monique S. Roy, a professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and lead investigator on several studies related to the role of Type I diabetes in African Americans, depression is a major risk factor in diabetic complications.
She and her colleagues, Dr. Alec Roy of the Psychiatric Service at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in East Orange and Dr. Mahmoud Affouf in the Department of Mathematics at Kean University, have determined that depression is significantly associated with inadequate blood sugar levels and progression of diabetic retinopathy, and appears to have a negative impact on the complications of diabetes in the eye, kidney and heart. Their findings were published in the July/August issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.
An innovative wireless technology designed to transmit electrocardiograms to cardiologists is being used at UMDNJ-The University Hospital to help cut treatment time for patients by 50 percent. The hospital is the only healthcare institution nationwide where this model is used. A recently published article in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology explains how this technology streamlines the delivery of care.
The article describes the process that occurs when a paramedic responds to a 911 call for an individual with symptoms related to heart disease. The ST-Segment Analysis Using Wireless Technology in Acute Myocardial Infarction (STAT-MI) technology gives paramedics an opportunity to transmit a patient’s EKGs from a remote location to the hospital's Emergency Department, reducing the time it takes for cardiologists to receive notification and treatment to be administered. The technology was supported, in part, by a grant from Verizon.
