For Non-supervisory Staff:
President Owen has added two more sessions on the Newark campus to allow more staff, especially second and third shift team members, the chance to attend the forum "Your Protection in the UMDNJ Workplace: The New Culture of Zero Tolerance for Inappropriate Behavior." These will be held in H 342-349 at University Hospital on Monday, November 5 at 7:30 a.m. and on Thursday, November 8 at 5 p.m.
While attendance at these sessions is voluntary, any staff member who wishes to attend must be provided the opportunity to do so by his or her supervisor. Of course, if the proposed attendee fills a critical position and cannot be relieved for the 1 hour time period, arrangements will be made to share meeting content in other ways.
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University President Dr. William F. Owen, Jr., has been joined by leaders from the Office of Legal Management and the Office of Ethics and Compliance to kick off a series of informational sessions that discussed the laws and supporting UMDNJ policies that protect University team members from hostile or otherwise inappropriate work environments.
The first meetings, held last week in Stratford, Newark, and New Brunswick, touched on issues such as reporting real or perceived misconduct, preventing harassment and discriminatory practices in the workplace, and the protections and responsibilities for staff under the new whistleblower/anti-retaliation policies. Non-supervisory team members were invited to participate in the first sessions; subsequent forums will be conducted for supervisory and management employees and for faculty and faculty administrators.
Lester Aron, Esq., senior vice president and general counsel, and Michael Clarke, Esq., vice president/chief compliance and ethics officer, will be on hand to participate in the discussions and answer audience questions along with President Owen.
The New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging (NJISA) at UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine received more than $3.4 million in grants from the U.S. Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA) to support three different geriatric education programs.
The first award is a three year, $1.8 million grant to support fellowship training for health professionals who plan to teach geriatric medicine, geriatric dentistry or geriatric behavioral and mental health. A second, three year grant just under $1.3 million will fund the New Jersey Geriatric Education Center under the direction of Dr. Anita Chopra, director of education and clinical programs at NJISA. Dr. Terrie Ginsberg and Dr. Martin Forsberg, faculty members at NJISA, received three year Geriatric Academic Career Awards from HRSA that together total $385,000.
Dr. Karen Raphael was awarded a $3.1 million grant from the NIH-National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to conduct a comprehensive sleep study on the causes of temporomandibular disorders (TMD), which are characterized by jaw and facial pain that often radiates to the neck and shoulders.
Dr. Raphael, the principal investigator of the five year study and a faculty member at both UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School, is conducting this multiple phase study with a team of researchers from New York University’s College of Dentistry and School of Medicine. They will compare and contrast the characteristics of facial pain among 180 women by simultaneously examining a multitude of possible causes of TMD pain.
