The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and the state Office of Cancer Control and Prevention have collaborated on a resource guide for a healthy lifestyle. The booklet, New Jersey Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs, focuses on nutrition, wellness and physical activity programs at hospitals and community centers throughout the state.
The information is from a database developed by the Task Force on Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment in New Jersey, chaired by Dr. Elisa Bandera, an epidemiologist at CINJ and assistant professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and CINJ. The guide is now available.
Mayor Cory Booker was joined by rock star Jon Bon Jovi, Gov. Jon Corzine, and other local leaders at a press conference on September 2 to announce the HELP Newark Initiative, a partnership with Jon Bon Jovi’s Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation and developer HELP USA that will provide affordable housing with support services for low-income and special-needs residents in Newark’s North Ward.
One-quarter of the housing units will be for people with HIV/AIDS who are currently being served by Broadway House for Continuing Care, an affiliate of UMDNJ. The remaining units will be for low-income residents.
New Jersey’s Health and Senior Services Commissioner Heather Howard addressed the state’s efforts to reduce racial disparities in birth outcomes at the 9th Annual Perinatal Health Disparities Conference, held at UMDNJ’s Newark campus on September 4.
The conference, co-sponsored by UMDNJ-School of Nursing, explored racial and ethnic disparities in medical care for pregnant women. Guest speakers included Dr. Denise V. Rodgers, UMDNJ Executive Vice President for Academic and Clinical Affairs.
Commissioner Howard also announced recommendations made by the New Jersey Prenatal Task Force to lay the foundation for improved access to prenatal care. The conference was co-sponsored by the Department of Health and Senior Services and the Northern New Jersey Maternal/Child Health Consortium’s Black Infant Mortality Reduction Resource Center.
Dr. Robert S. DiPaola, professor of medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been appointed director of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ). He has been a clinician and researcher at CINJ since 1994. He also chairs a National Cancer Institute committee developing clinical trials for treatments of prostate, kidney, bladder and testicular cancers.
Dr. DiPaola, a graduate at the University of Utah School of Medicine, did his residency at Duke University Medical Center and completed an oncology and hematology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written more than 200 articles, abstracts and book chapters on cancer and his research. Read more.
