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Annual Toy Drive Begins
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Collecting Toys for Children in Need
New Brunswick, NJ – UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is holding its annual toy drive through December 13, 2010. New, unwrapped toys are being collected at the reception desk of the Clinical Academic Building, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick. All donated toys will be distributed to area children through the Eric B. Chandler Health Center in New Brunswick.
The Chandler Health Center is the only federally-qualified community health center offering high-quality ambulatory care services to the region's medically underserved, including infants, young children and adolescents. Through the generosity of community members, faculty, staff and students at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Chandler distributed more than 700 toys last holiday season.
Questions in regard to the toy drive may be directed to: 732-235-5810.
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 at http://www.Facebook.com/RWJMS and follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/UMDNJ_RWJMS.
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