A videoconferenced message from President William F. Owen, Jr., set the stage for a University-wide celebration that marked UMDNJ’s Middle States accreditation through 2012. The videoconference originated in the Oral Health Pavilion at UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School and was broadcast to New Brunswick, Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Stratford, and Camden on Friday morning, March 28.
Once again, the match rate for UMDNJ graduates far exceeded this year's 94.2 percent national average. This year, the combined match rate for UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School was over 97 percent.
The Foundation of UMDNJ received a grant for UMDNJ-University Hospital from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) BRIDGES program to tailor interventions to improve outpatient care and access for people living with Type 2 diabetes.
University Hospital found that many of its patients never connect to the outpatient diabetes clinic and fall through the cracks in follow-up care. The hospital has decided to see if the effects caused by this gap in services can be reversed by personalizing the transition from the hospital to the outpatient clinic facilitated by a diabetes care coordinator.
Thanks to a generous community spirit, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) once again will benefit from the efforts of some South Brunswick students, who played volleyball for five continuous hours in a student-inspired marathon fundraiser known as "Volley for Life."
A check for $5,630 was presented this week to The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Foundation by representatives of Crossroads North Middle School, which is where 92 students and 30 alumni "served up" a day of fun and awareness in the sixth-annual event held last month. Over the years, more than $23,000 has been raised to help in the fight against cancer at CINJ, which is a Center of Excellence of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
