Newswise — As flu season gets underway and a second wave of H1N1 looms, UMDNJ is offering clinical, research and public health experts, from all University campuses, who can discuss various aspects of the new virus.
Listed in alphabetical order, the following sources are available for comment:- Suzanne H. Atkin, M.D., is the chief medical officer of UMDNJ-The University Hospital. She is an attending physician in the hospital’s Department of Medicine, practicing internal and emergency medicine, and teaches medical students and residents. Additionally, Atkin is associate dean for clinical affairs at the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School. She can discuss hospital emergency planning and organization that address the medical needs of the community and UMDNJ and hospital employees during an H1N1 outbreak, including current medical recommendations for the care and management of individuals ill with H1N1.- Susan Boruchoff, M.D., is professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and hospital epidemiologist for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Her areas of expertise are infection prevention and adult infectious diseases.- Lawrence D. Budnick, M.D., M.P.H., is director of the Occupational Medicine Service and associate professor of medicine at the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and is clinical assistant professor of environmental and occupational medicine at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Budnick co-chairs the University's H1N1 Influenza Task Force.- Carman A. Ciervo, D.O., F.A.C.O.F.P., is chair of and an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine and a member of the University’s Influenza Task Force. Ciervo has authored and co-authored numerous articles, abstracts and lectures on a variety of topics relevant to family practice, including the management and treatment of community acquired respiratory tract illnesses.- Barry Dashefsky, M.D., is professor of pediatrics and director of the section of pediatric infectious diseases in the Department of Pediatrics at the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School. He can discuss the epidemiological, clinical and public health aspects of the novel H1N1 influenza A virus, as well as issues concerning influenza immunization for both H1N1 and seasonal influenza.- George T. DiFerdinando, M.D., is manager of The New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at UMDNJ and an adjunct professor of epidemiology at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health. He also is a past acting commissioner of health for New Jersey. DiFerdinando can discuss the potential impact of the H1N1 outbreak and how viruses mutate to form new threats to public health.- Glenn Paulson, Ph.D., director of The New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness at UMDNJ and associate dean for research and professor of environmental and occupational health at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health. He can discuss the potential impact of an H1N1 outbreak and issues around immunization for both H1N1 and seasonal influenza.- David Perlin, Ph.D., is director of the Public Health Research Institute at the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School. He also is interim director of the UMDNJ Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, one of 13 national centers established by the NIH for studies of highly transmissible infectious agents such as anthrax, plague and pandemic flu. His expertise is on the biology of the organism and its potential virulence.- Melvin P. Weinstein, M.D., is professor of medicine and pathology and chief of the Division of Allergy, Immunology & Infectious Disease at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.- Peter N. Wenger, M.D., is an associate professor in the departments of Preventive Medicine & Community Health and Pediatrics at the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and an associate professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health. He can discuss the epidemiological, clinical and public health aspects of the novel H1N1 influenza A virus, as well as issues around immunization for both H1N1 and seasonal influenza.- Patricia Whitley-Williams, M.D., is interim chair of and professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and physician-in-chief at Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) is the nation’s largest free-standing public health sciences university with nearly 5,700 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and a school of public health on five campuses. Annually, there are more than two million patient visits at UMDNJ facilities and faculty practices at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a statewide mental health and addiction services network.
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