$6,000 was raised for patient education programs and breast cancer research at The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) through Panera Bread's Pink Ribbon Bagel campaign. A check representing the effort was presented to The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Foundation last week.
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to all.
Mary Sue Henifin, JD, MPH, was sworn in as a member of the UMDNJ Board of Trustees. Henifin is a shareholder in Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, a law firm with offices throughout the country, including Newark and Princeton. She has served as an adjunct faculty member at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in the Department of Environmental and Community Medicine. She developed the Public Health Law course at the medical school for which she received the Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award in 1993.
Henifin focuses her practice on resolving complex business disputes, including contract, licensing, securities, intellectual property, environmental, real estate and white-collar matters. She has written extensively on public health and the law and is co-author of New Jersey Brownfield Law and chapters on medical testimony and toxicology in the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. She is also a past chair of the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the Federal District Court of New Jersey.
She received a JD with honors from Rutgers University School of Law. She holds an MPH from Columbia University and a BA in biology from Harvard College. She previously served as a deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey.
UMDNJ's Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a major clinical affiliation between UMDNJ and Saint Barnabas Health Care System. The unanimous vote occurred at the Board's December 18 meeting.
Under the affiliation, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, one of the University's three medical schools, will partner with Saint Barnabas Medical Center and Newark Beth Israel Hospital to develop clerkships and other clinical instruction opportunities for medical students at the two hospitals. The agreement will also provide opportunities for research collaboration between the institutions.
Dr. Joel DeLisa, professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, was elected by his peers to serve the one-year term as chair of the Association of American Medical College's Council of Academic Societies. In the 30-year history of the Council, Dr. DeLisa is the first chair from UMDNJ and the first representative of his discipline, physical medicine and rehabilitation, to ascend to this important academic medicine leadership position.
