| Grant News |
| NEW TEACHING CENTER PREPARES STUDENTS FOR 21st CENTURY |
| A new Multimedia Health
Care Teaching Center has opened its doors at UMDNJ-School of Health Related Professions
(SHRP) in Newark. The facility was established with a $1 million grant, presented
to the Foundation of UMDNJ by Becton Dickinson, a leading medical technology company
headquartered in Franklin Lakes. The spacious 17,500 square foot center, located on the ninth floor of the Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., Building, gives students an opportunity to learn about the sophisticated technology integral to patient care in the 21st century. David Gibson, EdD, dean of SHRP, says the center reflects the changing environment in which 60 percent of patient care is performed in a patient's home or at ambulatory care centers. "That means the tradition of classroom training followed by apprentice- type duties in an acute care hospital setting no longer meets the needs of students," he says. To prepare students for careers in 35 different health fields - ranging from nutrition to physical therapy - the center has four interrelated training components. *A health informatics research and development laboratory, where faculty and advanced doctoral students can conduct research and work on other collaborative ventures. The faculty can also produce teaching materials, instrument demonstration and health information programs on CD ROMs for national and international distribution. *A simulated healthcare setting center, in which students can learn patient care skills in a wide range of fields. *A clinical diagnostic learning/testing center for technical training of students whose professions will require them to perform many testing procedures. *A studio/classroom equipped with audio and video technology for long-distance learning. |
Professional Activities:
Norbert Swislocki, PhD,
associate dean, Resource Administration and Planning, presented "Manners
and Behavior in Research Administration" at the Society of Research Administrators
meeting in Baltimore.
Honors:
Anupam Bishayee, PhD, research teaching specialist, Radiology, received the Young
Investigator Award from the Indo-American Society of Nuclear Medicine at the 46th
Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine for his presentation on "Marrow
Sparing Effects of Sn-117m-DTPA for Palliation of Bone Pain."
Lee Reichman, MD, professor, Medicine, and Preventive Medicine and Community
Health, and director, National Tuberculosis Center, was presented the 1999 Will
Ross Medal for his significant contributions to the prevention and control of
lung disease by the American Lung Association. This is the association's highest
volunteer award.
SHRP
SCHOOL OF HEALTH RELATED PROFESSIONS
Publications:
"Polar Tube Proteins of Microsporidia of the Family Encephalitozoonidae,"
by Elaine Keohane, PhD, director, Medical Technology Program, was in the
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Vol. 46, 1999.
"Recognizing Child Abuse, Child Abusers, and Individuals Likely to Abuse
in a Clinical Setting," by David Paulk, MS, PA-C, clinical coordinator,
Physician Assistant Program, Piscataway, was in the June 1999 edition of Physician
Assistant. Professional Activities: Riva Touger-Decker, PhD, director, Master
of Science in Clinical Nutrition Program, served on the American Dietetic Association
Alliance to the Special Olympics International Medical Advisory Council. Touger-Decker
coordinated the first nutrition screening and education program at the 1999 International
Special Olympics in Raleigh, North Carolina.
RWJMS
ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL
| Book Review |
| TISSUE ENGINEERING INTELLIGENCE UNIT 2: COMPOSITE TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION |
| by Charles W. Hewitt, PhD, and
Kirby S. Black, PhD R.G. Landes Company The authors have methodically introduced and mapped out all of the unique aspects of composite tissue transplantation, as it differs from organ transplantation. Both Hewitt and Black, pioneers in the field, performed limb transplant experiments in rats some 16 years ago, using the drug cyclosporine -- now the gold standard in transplantation. The term "composite tissue transplant" was created from the observation that this procedure does not deal with one specific tissue or organ, but a combination of tissues. For example, reconstruction of a limb would include a "composite" of skin, muscles, bones, joints, nerves, blood vessels and connective tissue. Other composite procedures may only involve two, three or four of the individual tissues. When studying a whole organ transplant such as a kidney or liver, the organ's function can be clearly identified by various physiologic and biochemical metabolic processes. But when examining this broad group of Òcomposite tissues" and their interactions, function may be more difficult to define. Consequently, composite tissue transplantation requires very different approaches than organ transplantation. The book provides an overview of these related subjects. The authors also include the basic principles of immunosuppression and immunobiology and a historical perspective of composite tissue transplantation. They examine some of the first clinical applications in this emerging field and address questions about neuromuscular function, tolerance, potential for graft vs. host disease, potential for bone marrow transplantation, muscle cell chimerism and other topics. Charles W. Hewitt, PhD, is an associate professor of research at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), and is the director of surgical research at The Cooper Health System in Camden. His co-author, Kirby S. Black, PhD, is with CryoLife, Inc., of Kennesaw, Georgia. Martha S. Matthews, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at RWJMS, also contributed to the book. |
Publications:
"Breast Reconstruction," by Philip Wey, MD, assistant professor,
Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, was in the medical textbook Expert Consultations
in Breast Cancer, 1999.
"The Pediatric Risk of Mortality Score (PRISM) and Injury Severity Score
(ISS) for Predicting Resource Utilization and Outcome of Intensive Care in Pediatric
Trauma," by Frank Castello, MD, associate professor, Pediatrics, Anthony
Cassano, MD, medical student, Patrice Gregory, PhD, assistant professor,
Family Medicine, and Jeffrey Hammond, MD, MPH, professor, Surgery, was
in Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 27, No. 5, May 1999."
Use of Sentinel Node Lymphoscintigraphy
in Malignant Melanoma," co-authored by James Goydos, MD, assistant
professor, Medicine, and member of CINJ, was in RadioGraphics, Vol. 19, No. 2,
1999.
Grants: F. Joseph Germino, MD, PhD, assistant
professor, Medicine, and member of CINJ, received a one-year, $34,210 grant from
the New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research to study "The CR2 Region of
CyclinA: Its Involvement in Adult T-cell Leukemia."
Claire Philipp, MD, assistant professor, Medicine, received two, two-year
grants from the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention: a $366,590 grant for "Screening Bleeding
Disorders in Women with Menorrhagia" and $149,206 to study "The Role
of the Maternal Hemostatic System in Intrauterine Growth Restriction."
Parvin Saidi, MD, professor, Medicine and chief, Division of Hematology, received
four one-year grants to support the New Jersey Regional Hemophilia Program: $163,316
from the Maternal Child Health Bureau; $166,331 from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention; $202,000 from the New Jersey State Department of Health; and $111,681
from the Hemophilia Association of New Jersey.
| Grant News | |
| PHYSICIAN GETS $13 MILLION TO SET UP NATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE | |
| The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation has awarded a six-year, $13 million grant to John Slade, MD, professor
of environmental and community medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,
to establish offices for two national programs on substance abuse within the UMDNJ-School
of Public Health. "Substance abuse causes enormous harm," says Slade. "Illness and death, cultural strain, family tensions and economic loss are but some of the categories of social damage. While we are learning more about how to deal with these problems, the capacity and leadership for further developing and using this knowledge has lagged."
The second project, "Innovators in Combating Substance Abuse," will fund up to five researchers each year for their innovative contributions to public health, specifically in the areas of alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse. Recipients will have an opportunity to conduct their own projects and will be encouraged to serve as mentors in the leadership project. "Both programs will focus on education, advocacy and policy issues," Slade says, noting the programs will also reward and encourage innovation in public health approaches to substance abuse. |
