ISPOR opened its 21st Annual International Meeting this morning with the first plenary session, Accelerating Cures: Addressing Unmet Patient Need or Putting Patients at Risk?, in Washington, DC, USA.
Director of the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research at Rutgers University, Stephen K. Burley, MD, DPhil, has been named as co-leader of the Cancer Pharmacology Research Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJ) New Brunswick has named Jessie L. Tucker III, MBA, PhD, FACHE, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton (RWJ Hamilton) have announced the appointment of breast surgeon Firas Eladoumikdachi, MD, FACS, as Program Director for the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey at Hamilton – the cancer center at RWJ Hamilton. He will be responsible for clinical leadership of the oncology service line at RWJ Hamilton including medical, surgical and radiation oncology.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative's data center, which collects and shares data from more than 800 instruments and a transmission network across the Atlantic and Pacific, is operating at Rutgers. The university has an initial $11.8 million contract to design, build and operate the OOI cyberinfrastructure.
ISPOR announced confirmation of key scientific sessions for its 21st Annual International Meeting starting next week, May 21-25, 2016 in Washington, DC, USA. The meeting will feature three, timely Plenary Sessions centered on the theme, “Value, Affordability, and Patient Centeredness: Can We Have It All?”.
The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation and The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration announce The Treat FTD Fund, a $10 million investment to develop effective treatments for frontotemporal degeneration, a complex form of dementia that affects more than 50,000 people in the United States. The fund was created thanks to a commitment of $5 million from The Lauder Foundation and Ronald S. Lauder, and $5 million from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation.
On Thursday, May 5, 2016, Riverview Medical Center hosted the annual Physician Recognition Dinner, which honored Edwin C. Leschhorn, M.D., Joseph F. Binns, M.D., and James D. Cameron, M.D. for their outstanding contributions to Riverview and patient care. Held at The Oyster Point Hotel, guests, which included members of the medical staff, Riverview team members, and the physician’s friends and families, enjoyed an awards presentation and dinner.
The annual Superhero Soiree, hosted by K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, took place on Friday, April 29 at the Molly Pitcher Inn in Red Bank, NJ and raised $140,000 for pediatric palliative care. During the event, Kyra Citron, director of the Kid’s Corner at Charles Lafitte Foundation (CLF), was presented with the Hometown Hero Award and Charles K. Dadzie, M.D. a pediatric pulmonologist at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital, received the Physician Hero Award. The Hero awards are presented annually to honor philanthropists and leaders in the community for outstanding service to others in Monmouth and Ocean counties.
On Thursday, April 14, key members of the community, along with Meridian Health executive leadership and members of the Riverview Medical Center Foundation Board of Trustees gathered at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ for a sneak preview showcasing the new Meridian Integrative Health & Medicine program which is scheduled to launch this year.
Article describes addition of powerful neutral beam injector to upgrade the Lithium Tokamak Experiment.
Obama’s Address at Rutgers Commencement Recalls Other Presidential Stops
The National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC) has again recognized the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Jersey Shore University Medical Center as a Level 4 epilepsy center for the third year in a row. To achieve this accreditation, Jersey Shore has demonstrated that it has the professional expertise and facilities to provide the highest-level medical and surgical evaluation and treatment for patients with complex epilepsy. It is the only hospital in the Monmouth and Ocean county region to earn this distinction and continues to help Meridian Neuroscience provide exceptional care and unique capabilities to its patients.
An unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement, the Rutgers alumna fought racism from within the system – and won
Caring for cancer patients may be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the work of an oncology nurse, but the role involves so much more.To recognize the scope of their work, which includes research and peer mentoring, Rutgers Cancer Institute nurses were celebrated this week with Oncology Nursing Excellence Awards.
The Riverview Rehabilitation Center, a state-of-the-art, 30-bed, inpatient physical rehabilitation facility located in Riverview Medical Center has, for the sixth time, been awarded a three-year term of accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for high inpatient standards and post-acute care.
Article describes new finding of the composition of the bootstrap current at the edge of fusion plasmas.
In observance of Stroke Awareness Month, Meridian Neuroscience is kicking off a series of informative community events, providing expert advice, tips, and the latest information about stroke prevention and treatments. The events will take place at Meridian Health locations throughout Monmouth and Ocean counties.
ISPOR announced today that it has published a new Global Health Care Systems Road Map—Australia Medical Devices.
Students at New York City high schools in Harlem who learned about the failures and personal struggles of famous scientists scored significantly higher on STEM tests than those who did not. The scores of struggling students rose more than those of successful students, according to a Teachers College, Columbia University study.
The topic of sexual dysfunction may be a difficult one to discuss between healthcare providers and cancer patients. The nursing and social work teams at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey explored this issue in order to improve the conversation and ensure quality oncology care. Nurses also examined how to ensure the safety of alternate route chemotherapy administration. The work is being presented at the Oncology Nursing Society’s Annual Congress meeting this week in San Antonio.
Rutgers University-Newark alumnus helped save dozens of Marines from massacre
The Addiction Medicine Foundation (formerly The ABAM Foundation) today announced the winners of the Next Generation Award for Adolescent Substance Use Prevention. The awards of $25,000 each, which are conferred by the Foundation’s National Center for Physician Training in Addiction Medicine and partially funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
A discovery by scientists from Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania could lead to new treatments for many of the 25 million people in the U.S., including seven million children, who suffer from asthma.
Selman Waksman’s work eventually led to the discovery of at least 20 antibiotics including streptomycin, the first effective treatment for TB
ISPOR announced today that it is expanding its leadership team with the appointment of Richard J. Willke, PhD as Chief Science Officer for the organization.
This piece describes a new method for controlling plasma rotation to limit instabilities that can halt fusion reactions.
Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey examining gynecologic cancers that poorly respond to therapy shows genomic profiling can help identify alternate and targeted treatments.
Andrew Elkwood, MD, FACS and Matthew R. Kaufman, MD, FACS, leading plastic and reconstructive surgeons at The Institute for Advanced Reconstruction at The Plastic Surgery Center, will present new findings based on their work in advanced reconstructive techniques for people with spinal cord injuries and pain disorders at two upcoming scientific meetings.
ISPOR announced today the launch of its new interactive job board, the ISPOR Career Center. With its global focus on health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), the ISPOR Career Center offers job seekers and organizations seeking candidates with HEOR expertise an easy-to-use and highly targeted resource for online employment connections.
Article describes successful test of liquid lithium limiter on China's EAST tokamak.
A Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researcher has been awarded a $1.8-million grant from the National Cancer Institute to build upon research examining a drug compound that restores tumor suppressor function in the most commonly mutated gene in human cancer – the p53 gene.
ISPOR published a new Task Force Report, “Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis for Health Care Decision Making—Emerging Good Practices: Report 2 of the ISPOR MCDA Emerging Good Practices Task Force, ” in the March/April 2016 issue of Value in Health.
The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) announced its next Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Training Program will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from 26-29 June 2016.
Riverview Medical Center has, for the second time, been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in nuclear medicine resulting from a review by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) announced today the recipients of its 2016 Scientific Achievement Awards. The ISPOR Awards Program is designed to foster and recognize excellence and outstanding technical achievement in HEOR.
Joseph Berardo, Jr. has been named the new chair of the Ocean Medical Center Foundation Board of Trustees. In Joe Berardo’s new leadership role, he is excited to also welcome Robert Harms as vice chair and Peter Mencel, M.D. and Matthew Regan to the board of trustees.
Meridian Health Foundation’s first annual BuildingHOPE Benefit will take place on Friday, May 13, 2016 at Eagle Oaks Golf & Country Club in Farmingdale, NJ. The event, formerly known as the Sweetheart Ball for its February timeframe, has been moved to May and will benefit oncology research through Meridian Cancer Care.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory hosted a Young Women's Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics for 575 girls. The conference is aimed at sparking young women's interest in STEM and encouraging them to consider STEM careers. Women still lag behind men in STEM careers, especially in certain fields such as computer science, physics, and engineering.
Physicist Tyler Abrams has led experiments on a facility in the Netherlands called Magnum-PSI showing that combining lithium with the hydrogen isotope deuterium substantially reduced lithium erosion.
Alfred F. Tallia, MD, MPH, professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been elected chair of the Composite Committee, which is the governing board of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) program.
In December 2015, the FDA proposed new restrictions related to tanning bed use, including banning their use among individuals younger than 18. As the comment period on the proposal winds down, a Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey investigator who conducts research on tanning behaviors weighs in.
Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey examining difficult to treat tumors through genomic profiling shows that tumors with alterations in a signaling pathway responsible for cell regulation may respond to targeted therapy regardless of where the tumor originated in the body.
In an interview in The New York Times, TC's Chris Emdin responds to the story of Ed Boland, an executive at Prep for Prep, a nonprofit organization that places minority children in elite private schools, who quit to teach at a low-performing public school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Boland had seen movies "in which heroic teachers reach into the lives of at-risk adolescents and make a difference," writes John Leland of the Times. "Mr. Boland believed he could be one of them," but soon quit teaching and returned to Prep for Prep. Boland wrote a book about his experience, “The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School.
Article describes possible new paradigm for inertial confinement fusion technique.
An advance look at PPPL's Young Women's Conference in STEM March 18 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Princeton University's Frick Chemistry Laboratory.
Article describes Princeton University physicist's laboratory at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory that will search for Big Bang neutrinos.
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) announced today the recognition of Addiction Medicine as a new subspecialty. The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM), a Member Board of ABMS, sponsored the application for the new field to be a multispecialty subspecialty – meaning that physicians certified by any Member Board of the ABMS can become certified in addiction medicine. The ABMS subspecialty recognition of Addiction Medicine has been championed by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM), which has established a certification examination and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process for addiction medicine physicians.
Hematology and oncology expertise now available at Meridian Health Village at Jackson.
The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, is one of 15 U.S. sites currently enrolling patients in a research study to evaluate a potential new treatment alternative for patients with symptomatic persistent and long standing persistent atrial fibrillation (AFib).
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