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Children First: Mini-Medical School for Community Members
Focuses on Pediatric Health
The Department of Pediatrics at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is welcoming
community members to attend its Pediatric Mini-Medical School, a series of engaging seminars at which pediatric specialists will discuss the most recent advances in child health. The four sessions
will feature expert pediatricians who will discuss symptoms, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of common health concerns, as well as national public health issues, including obesity and autism.
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The goal of the Pediatric Mini-Medical School is to improve the community’s understanding of medicine and science and promote engaged discussions between pediatricians and attendees.
The sessions are geared toward adults who care for children including parents, grandparents,
child care providers, educators and other healthcare professionals. High school and college-age students who
are interested in careers in medicine or child-focused professions are also welcome
to attend.
The four sessions in the series are:
- Tuesday, April 13, 2010: Aches and Pains: When to Worry About Bone/Joint Aches, Headache and Stomach Pain, featuring expert rheumatologists, gastroenterologists and neurologists.
- Wednesday, April 21, 2010: Wheezes and Sneezes: Allergy, Asthma, and Infectious Diseases, featuring pediatric specialists in pulmonology, allergy, immunology and infectious disease.
- Tuesday, April 27, 2010: Why All the Fuss About Fat? Featuring adolescent medicine, cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology and hypertension pediatric specialists.
- Wednesday, May 5, 2010: Looking at Child Development from Typical to Atypical: Milestones, Autism and Sleep Issues featuring pediatricians specialized in general and neurological development, and pulmonology.
Registration for each session is required, as space is limited. There is a fee of $10 per session or $25 to attend the complete series. Each of the four sessions will be held in the Conference Center, room 1302 at the Clinical Academic Building, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m.; sessions begin promptly at 7 p.m. and will be about two hours long.
The pediatric specialists leading each session are all physicians of The Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group, the school’s multi-disciplinary faculty practice with approximately 500 physicians encompassing more than 200 sub-specialties who have privileges at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Where Kids are Our Only Specialty. Through the partnership of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, expert physicians have the significant resources of an academic medical center to ensure that patients benefit from a comprehensive treatment program from diagnosis through the completion of rehabilitation.
Community members interested in attending the Pediatric Mini-Medical School may download a registration form at: http://rwjms.umdnj.edu/news_publications/ChildrenFirst.html or call 732-235-7900.
The program is sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics and the Child Health Institute of New Jersey at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the Isabel and David Mahalick Foundation and Novo Nordisk.
About UMDNJ-ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL
As one of the nation’s leading comprehensive medical schools, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, research, health care delivery, and the promotion of community health. In cooperation with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the medical school’s principal affiliate, they comprise New Jersey’s premier academic medical center. In addition, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School has 34 other hospital affiliates and ambulatory care sites throughout the region.
As one of the eight schools of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey with 2,800 full-time and volunteer faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School encompasses 22 basic science and clinical departments, hosts centers and institutes including The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Child Health Institute of New Jersey, the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, and the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. The medical school maintains educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels for more than 1,500 students on its campuses in New Brunswick, Piscataway, and Camden, and provides continuing education courses for health care professionals and community education programs. To learn more about UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, log on to rwjms.umdnj.edu. Find our fan page on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @UMDNJ_RWJMS.
About The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital:
As New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive children’s hospital, The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital offers specialties including cardiology and cardiac surgery, organ transplants, trauma treatment, fetal surgery, hematology/oncology and neurosurgery in a family-centered environment. It is consistently among the top-rated children’s hospitals in America for patient satisfaction.
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