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RWJUH named National Rare Disease Center of Excellence (updated)
The RWJBarnabas Health facility, in partnership with Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, is the first hospital in New Jersey to receive the designation.
RWJBarnabas researchers awarded $2.4M grant for heart study
Provided by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the award will help develop new technology to better manage patients presenting with heart attacks.
How information technology and medical studies are converging
Even as innovations in the field improve the ability of health care educators to pass on their knowledge, it also brings some challenges.
Rutgers Senate calls for pause in medical schools merger
Amid concerns that include what the combination would mean for the independence of the institutions and how resources would be allocated, the resolution declares it has lost confidence in the leadership of President Jonathan Holloway to represent the values of shared governance.
Nearly $19M gift to establish Geriatric Division at Rutgers’ RWJ medical school
Housed within the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, a key point of the effort is to increase funding for the institution's Geriatric Fellowship Program.
Rutgers board approves medical schools merger
In an email to faculty, students and staff, Deans Robert Johnson and Amy Murtha said that the primary objective behind the move is to create a “stronger, more innovative institution that offers significantly enhanced educational opportunities, expanded research endeavors and improved patient care."
Murtha named dean of Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Most recently a professor and chair of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive services at the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Amy Murtha focuses her research on preventing premature births.
