President Owen's Forum "Your Protection in the UMDNJ Workplace: The New Culture of Zero Tolerance for Inappropriate Behavior," will take place for supervisory and management employees at the following locations: In New Brunswick on Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 9:30 to 11 a.m., in the CAB, Room 1302; In Stratford on Friday, Nov. 16, at 10 a.m., in the Multipurpose Room; and in Newark on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 9:30 a.m., in SSB, 65 Bergen Street, 3rd Floor Auditorium.
The first session for faculty will also be held in Newark on Nov. 28, at 3 p.m., at the New Jersey Dental School's Oral Health Pavilion in Rooms B-963 and B-965. 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.
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More than 180 faculty members at UMDNJ have been named "Top Doctors" by New Jersey Monthly magazine. The complete listing, published as part of the magazine's annual survey of New Jersey’s practicing physicians, appears in its November 2007 issue.
To compile the list, the Polling Institute at Monmouth University sent out more than 30,000 ballots to New Jersey's licensed doctors in more than 40 specialties. They were asked to whom they would send a loved one. The results showed that of the 573 physicians identified as top doctors throughout the state, nearly one third are faculty members at UMDNJ.
Dr. Pranela Rameshwar, a professor of medicine at UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School, has discovered that adult stem cells from bone marrow undergo changes in the presence of inflammation that may trigger repair of damaged tissue.
Her study shows how adult stem cells from bone marrow behave, giving researchers a better understanding of how they may help repair damaged tissue. Such knowledge ultimately could lead to development of therapies for neural diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, and spinal chord and traumatic brain injuries.
She and Steven J. Greco, a PhD candidate at UMDNJ Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, co authored an article explaining the discovery in the September 25 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Two researchers from UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine (SOM) have received national awards from the American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF) during the American Osteopathic Association's annual convention, held recently in San Diego. Dr. Robert Nagele, a professor of medicine at the New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging at SOM, received the Beehler Research Mentor of the Year award; and Dr. Theresa Scholl, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, received the Irvin M. Korr Research Award. These awards are among four presented annually by the AOF to acknowledge excellence in research and mentorship.
