The Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine (DAYAM) at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) held its 4th Annual Teen Forum in Newark to discuss "HIV/AIDS and the Power of Choice." AIDS activist Hydeia Broadbent, who is HIV positive, addressed more than 350 high school students about living with the disease she contracted at birth.

She was joined by other nationally recognized panelists including actor Jamie Hector from HBO's "The Wire" and Sgt. DeLacy Davis, founder of Black Cops Against Brutality. Teens from the Peer Outreach Workers Educating Risk Takers (P.O.W.E.R.) program at NJMS also performed.

Jie Li, a student at UMDNJ-School of Public Health, and Beniam Biftu, a student at Rutgers University, were among the 19 winners selected nationally by the Association of Schools of Public Health for its campaign to encourage students at colleges and universities nationwide to focus public attention on the ways in which public health serves the community.

As part of their award-winning "This is Public Health" campaign, they created a music video and ran a week-long series of display ads that appeared in the Rutgers Daily Targum The video can be seen at YouTube.com.

Joseph Nezgoda was honored by the AMA Foundation with a leadership award in the medical student's category. In his final year of a combined MD/MBA program at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, he has served as AMA chair of his medical school chapter, state and region. He has served two years on the board of trustees at the Medical Society of New Jersey and served three years as a delegate to the AMA House of Delegates.

He was also elected to his town council, winning an open election against an incumbent. With great interest in humanism in medicine, he created and directed his school's medical humanities elective and has been inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He has conducted research at the Naval Research Lab and the NIH.