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UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Hosts Expert on Healthcare Journalism and Media
New Brunswick, N.J. – A veteran journalist and advocate for clear and accurate reporting of healthcare issues for consumers, Gary Schwitzer, will be the featured speaker at the annual Mates David and Hinna Stahl Memorial Lecture on Bioethics, a free community seminar at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School to be held at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at the Clinical Academic Building, room 1302, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick.
Mr. Schwitzer is publisher of HealthNewsReview.org, leading a team of more than two dozen people who grade daily health news reporting by major U.S. news organizations. In its first year, the project was honored with several journalism industry awards – the Mirror Award, honoring those who “hold a mirror to their own industry for the public’s benefit,” and the Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism. His blog – which is embedded within HealthNewsReview.org – was voted 2009 Best Medical Blog in competition hosted by Medgadget.com.
From 2001-2010, he was a tenured professor on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, teaching health journalism and media ethics. He left that position to devote his full time to his online publishing work.
As part of his long career, Mr. Schwitzer was the founding Editor-In-Chief of the MayoClinic.com consumer health web site, and was a medical news reporter at major media outlets in the U.S., including CNN, where he served as head of the medical news unit. He served two terms as a member of the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists for which he authored the organization’s Statement of Principles. For that organization he also wrote a guide on how to report on medical research studies.
Schwitzer has written about the state of health journalism in JAMA, BMJ, the American Journal of Bioethics, the Journal of Medical Internet Research, PLoS Medicine, Nieman Reports, Quill, Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter.org, The Daily Beast, The American Editor, and MayoClinic.com. In 2009, the Kaiser Family Foundation published and distributed his white paper on “The State of US Health Journalism.”
The endowed lecture is named in honor of Mates David and Hinna Stahl, parents of Theodore J. Stahl, MD, clinical professor of radiology and medicine. This is the sixteenth lecture in the annual series. Parking is available at the Paterson Street deck, adjacent to the Clinical Academic Building. For more information, directions and to RSVP for the seminar, call 732-235-5810 or visit http://rwjms.umdnj.edu.
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 one of the nation's premier academic medical centers. 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 www.Facebook.com/RWJMS and follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/RWJMS.
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