More than 75 potential applicants met with representatives from six of UMDNJ schools located at the Stratford campus to learn about various health careers at UMDNJ’s ThirdAnnual All Health Career Fair, held at the Stratford campus. Attendees spent time spokeeaking with faculty and staff from the School of Public Health, New Jersey Dental School, the School of Health Related Professions, the School of Nursing, the School of Osteopathic Medicine (SOM), and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. SOM students gave tours of the campus and demonstrations demonstratedof osteopathic manipulative techniques.
Dr. Peter S. Amenta has been appointed dean of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS). The appointment follows a national search for a dean to lead the school, which has campuses in New Brunswick, Piscataway and Camden. He has served as interim dean since April 2006.
Amenta earned his medical degree at Hahnemann University, where he also completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology and earned his PhD in anatomy . He joined RWJMS in 1989 and became chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in 1998.
He has served as the residency program director and chief of pathology service at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), as well as chair of the hospital's Performance Improvement Committee. He also served as senior vice president of medical affairs and chief of staff and was the founding director of CINJ's Immunohistochemistry Shared Resource. The appointment follows a national search for a dean to lead the school, which has campuses in New Brunswick, Piscataway and Camden. Read more.
The Traumatic Loss Coalition for Youth Programs at UMDNJ-University Behavioral Health Care’s (UBHC) Behavioral Research and Training Institute held its sixth annual suicide prevention conference this week.
The two-day event focused on mental health disorders, suicide prevention and substance abuse in youth. According to UBHC program manager Donna Amundson, LCSW, a program manager at UBHC, substance abuse has been identified by those who work closely with youth as an increasingly serious problem that, if addressed early, can prevent the onset or improve the outcome of psychiatric disorders. Read more.
