Dean’s Desk Faculty Members Selected to Attend HERS Summer Institute hawna Hudson, PhD, associate professor of family medicine and community health, and Monica Roth, PhD, professor of pharmacology, are among the three RBHS faculty selected to attend the prestigious 2015 HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute. HERS is dedicated to creating and sustaining a Shawna Hudson, PhD community of women leaders through leadership development programs, and other strategies, with a special focus on gender equity within the broader comMonica Roth, PhD mitment to achieving equality and excellence in higher education. This competitive program features a 12-day higher education resource services leadership training course that provides a concentrated curriculum to help mid-career women in academia prepare to assume senior leadership roles. From the News Collaborative New Departments Will Enhance Clinical Enterprise creation of two new departments— the Department of Neurological Surgery and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery—will enhance the clinical enterprise at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Faculty in both departments will work in collaboration with colleagues at New Jersey Medical School, capitalizing on the strengths of experts across Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. This partnership allows for enriched educational opportunities, an enhanced research program positioned to increase grant support, and most important, a comprehensive range of patient care across multiple disciplines. The Department of Neurological Surgery will be developed with physicians from the division of neurological surgery within Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Department of Surgery. Pending approval of a joint Department of Neurological Surgery, Charles J. Prestigiacomo, MD, professor and chair, Department of Neurological Surgery, New Jersey Medical School, will be named interim chair of the department at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and interim joint chair of the nascent, systems-wide Rutgers Neurological Surgery. The S Dr. Prestigiacomo will oversee the New Brunswick and Newark campuses during the search for a permanent joint chair. Dr. Prestigiacomo is renowned for his specialty in cerebrovascular microsurgery, as well as endovascular surgery for the treatment of all brain, spinal cord, and head/neck pathology and stereotactic radiosurgery for vascular lesions. The Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is new to Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and will add services to treat adult patients with disorders of the ear, nose, and throat, and surrounding structures in the head and neck. Also working in collaboration with faculty in Newark, Soly Baredes, MD, professor and chair, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, will be named interim chair of the Department at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and interim joint chair of the nascent, systems-wide Rutgers Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, until a permanent joint chair is named. Dr. Baredes’ clinical expertise is in benign and malignant head and neck tumor surgery, including skull base surgery, rhinology, and laryngology. Steve Hockstein Steve Hockstein I The New Jersey Health Foundation awarded grants totaling $1.2 million to 28 RBHS faculty members. Through its Signature Initiatives Program, the foundation awarded $100,000 to Nancy Woychik, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology. In addition, it awarded $50,000 to Robert Laumbach, MPH, MD ’97, associate professor of environmental and occupational medicine. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society awarded a three-year, $607,160 grant to Cheryl Dreyfus, PhD, professor and chair, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, principal investigator in The Role of Glial Cell-Derived Factors in a Cuprizone Model of Multiple Sclerosis. The 16th Annual HIPHOP 5K Run/Walk he 16th Annual HIPHOP 5K Run/Walk took place on March 14. Enthusiastic participants braved the rainy weather for a successful event, which raised $4,000 for all HIPHOP community service programming, including the Promise Clinic and Community Health Initiative. I T 8