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Contact: Jennifer Forbes
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
732-235-6356 or jenn.forbes@umdnj.edu
Volunteer Faculty Members Recognized for Leadership in Medical Education and Research
New Brunswick, NJ – On Monday, June 14, Peter Amenta, MD, PhD, Dean of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, was joined by department chairs to recognize 19 volunteer faculty members for excellence in teaching and research. Volunteer faculty members are physicians and scientists who provide valuable assistance to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School by lending their expertise in clinical, research and teaching assignments.
This year's Volunteer Faculty Awardees are:
Emergency Medicine Orthopaedic Surgery
Alan Dias, MD Haim Blecher, MD
Family Medicine and Community Health Pediatrics
Robin O. Winter, MD Marc Sturgill, PharmD
Smita Patil Randhawa, MD, MPHMedicine Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Mark Greco, MD Anna Maria Dunn, MD
Stephen Newman, MD, MBA Jerrold Friedman, MD
Leonard Sigal, MDMolecular Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology Psychiatry
Florence Kimball, PhD John Blake, MD
Marshall Swartzburg, MDObstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences Radiology
Chike Aguh, MD Mark P. Bramwit, MD
Paul Bergh, MD
Mary Gastrich, PhD, EdD Surgery
John Thomas Davidson, MD
Amrik Sahota, PhD
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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