May is Oncology Nurses Month, and Katherine Katen Moore from The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) was honored with the 2008 State Award for Excellence from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
Moore has conducted research on the effects of nutrition on radiation treatment, complementary therapies in conjunction with cancer treatment, palliative care, cancer fatigue, and various aspects of nursing education. She co-authored Living Well with Cancer, currently in its second printing. Moore is a member of CINJ’s Continuity of Care Committee.
UMDNJ President Dr. William Owen, Jr., led a panel of community representatives and health care professionals on April 30 for a Community Health Care Leadership Roundtable to address the status of health care 40 years after the Newark Rebellion.
Dr. Owen discussed his views on health care disparities and the impact of academic heath centers as economic engines. He was joined by Dr. Clement Alexander Price, director of Rutgers University’s Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, who discussed the issue of health care as the next phase of the Civil Rights Movement.
Dr. Robert Johnson, interim dean of UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, facilitated the panel discussion on the "Health Status of Newark and Health Service Delivery Issues." Maria Vizcarrondo, health director for the City of Newark, Dr. Sandra Echeverria, instructor, postdoctoral research fellow, SPH and Francis Dixon, executive director, Vision of Hope CDC, officer, The University Heights Super Neighborhood Council, also served on the panel.
For 25 years, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), New Brunswick, have developed a highly successful working relationship with widely recognized collaborative programs in education, clinical care, research, and community services. Over the years, the reputation of both institutions has soared, as substantiated most recently by being named among America’s best medical schools and hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. RWJMS was recognized for excellence in research and primary care; and RWJUH achieved high rankings in heart and heart surgery, urology, respiratory disorders and geriatrics. Faculty and staff turned out to celebrate their "partnership in excellence" at a reception on Friday April 25 with UMDNJ President Dr. William Owen, Jr., Interim Dean, Dr. Peter Amenta, and Hospital President and CEO, Stephen Jones officiating.
A front page story in The Wall Street Journal on May 5, entitled "Medical Specialties Hit by a Growing Pay Gap," features NJMS neuro-ophthalmologist Dr. Larry Frohman, and also quotes Dr. Marco Zarbin, chair of the Department of Visual Sciences and Ophthalmology at New Jersey Medical School, and Dr. Roman Shindler, senior ophthalmology resident.
The article discusses growing shortages in specific medical specialties and subspecialties-among them neuro-ophthalmology, neurology, endocrinology, geriatrics and pulmonology. Within the next decade, approximately 140 of the 400 neuro-ophthalmologists currently practicing in the U.S. are expected to retire; and only 20 residents have chosen this field within the last four years.
The various possible causes for these shortages were discussed, with UMDNJ faculty providing their insights.
