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Contact: Jennifer Forbes
Communication & Public Affairs
Phone: 732-235-6356
Email: jenn.forbes@umdnj.edu
2012 Convocation Ceremony
7:00 pm,
Monday, May 21
State Theater
15 Livingston Ave.
New Brunswick
Doors open at 6:00 pm; Robing is at 6:30 pm.
Featuring Keynote Speaker:
Neil Calman, MMS ’73, MD, ABFP, FAAFP is a Board Certified family physician, practicing in the Bronx and Manhattan for the past 30 years. He is a co-founder of the Institute for Family Health where he has served as President and CEO since 1983. The Institute operates sixteen community health centers in the Bronx, Manhattan, and the Hudson Valley of New York and eight homeless healthcare sites, a two school-based health centers and two family medicine residency programs.
Dr. Calman is the project director of Bronx Health REACH, a Centers for Disease Control funded effort involving over 40 community and faith-based organizations to eliminate racial and ethnic differences in health outcomes in the Bronx.
In 2002, the Institute implemented a fully-integrated practice management and electronic health record system that has been directed at improving population and community health, as well as supporting the Institute’s continuing efforts in eliminating health disparities. In recognition of this achievement, Dr. Calman received the 2006 Physician’s Information Technology Leadership Award, presented by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). In 2008, the Institute received the HIMSS Davies Award in Public Health and the New York Times Non-profit Excellence Award for its use of technology and focus on mission.
Dr. Calman serves on the New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education and on the Board of the Community Health Care Association of New York State. In 2009, he was appointed by the Obama Administration as an expert in the care of vulnerable populations to Health Resources and Services Administration’s Health Information Technolgy Policy Committee where he serves on the Meaningful Use Subcommittee and the Privacy and Security and Quality Measurement Tiger Teams.
Dr. Calman is the recipient of many national and regional awards for his work including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Community Health Leadership Award, the American Academy of Family Physicians' Public Health Award, the Pew Charitable Trusts' Primary Care Achievement Award and the Physician Advocacy Award from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession. The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Alumni Association presented Dr. Calman with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011.
Directions & Parking information can be found on the State Theatre web site: http://www.statetheatrenj.org/aboutus/directions.asp
UMDNJ University Commencement exercises are scheduled for Wednesday, May 23th at 10:00 AM at the IZOD CENTER in the Meadowlands Complex, East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Information about Commencement can be found on UMDNJ's web site at: http://www.umdnj.edu/acadweb/commencement.html
