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Enhancing Professionalism, Creating Awareness of Health Inequities,
Integrating Science and Practice
 
New Curriculum Meets Challenges that Await
Tomorrow’s Physicians
A collaborative effort involving the medical school’s Office of Education, Curriculum Committee, and more than a dozen Student Curriculum Reform Fellows developed a reformed and revitalized curriculum to help prepare our future physicians to meet the demands of an ever-changing industry. Learn more about what was involved and the new integrated approach that incorporates the “five C’s.”
By Jennifer Forbes Mullenhard
In a career spent on improving outcomes of aging Americans affected by Alzheimer’s and related diseases, Dr. William T. Hu is focusing new research to identify biomarkers that can help diagnose the disease early and potentially develop effective treatments.
By Jillian Prior, MPA
William Hu, MD, PhD, Studies the Underlying Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease to Identify New Treatment
The COVID pandemic has highlighted that health equity is still not a reality. Rutgers researchers are hoping to increase COVID testing among Black and Latinx communities in an innovative program using healthcare workers as “ambassadors” to their family and friends.
By Beth-Ann Kerber
Tackling Health Disparities in COVID
Improving the Health of Marginalized Communities: Jennifer Tan, MD ’06, FAAD, Provides Skincare to the Homeless Community in Boston
From her medical school days as a student director of HIPHOP’s Community Health Initiative and volunteer with the Promise Clinic, Dr. Jennifer Tan has had a passion for helping the underserved. Today, she oversees the Boston Health Care Homeless Program’s dermatology clinic, caring for the skin of the homeless population in that city.
By Jillian Prior, MPA
‘It’s Been a Wild Ride’: Serendipitous Events Guide William Shaffer, MD ’04, to a Fulfilling Career in Neurology
Long-haired drummer, multiple sclerosis patient, life-changing neurologist. Learn how serendipitous events led Dr. William Shaffer to a fulfilling career in neurology and co-director of a Colorado-based comprehensive MS center.
By Lauren S. Peele-Marshall
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New Curriculum Meets Challenges that Await Tomorrow’s Physicians
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to our latest all-digital issue of Robert Wood Johnson Medicine.
Since our last magazine, the COVID-19 global pandemic continued to descend on humanity with devastating effect, resulting in increased challenges and loss of life experienced by so many individuals and families across our state, our country, and the world. This past year has given us all new perspective and, with that, hope. In less than one year, basic and translational scientists produced efficacious vaccines, and physicians, nurses, and public health officials worked to distribute them across the country, saving countless lives. The medical school has contributed in significant ways to the efforts, facilitating approximately 200,000 COVID tests, performing tens of thousands of vaccinations in the community, conducting research that has helped provide greater clarity about the disease, as well as clinical trials leading to the Emergency Use Authorization of the vaccines and medication, and providing clinical care to COVID patients in the hospital, our ambulatory clinics, the Emergency Department, Chandler Health Center, and through the use of telemedicine.
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A Publication for Alumni & Friends of
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
FALL    2021
Enhancing Professionalism, Creating Awareness of
Health Inequities, Integrating Science and Practice
New Curriculum Meets Challenges that Await Tomorrow’s Physicians
Message from the Dean
Dear Friends,
Welcome to our latest all-digital issue of
Robert Wood Johnson Medicine.
Since our last magazine, the COVID-19 global pandemic continued to descend on humanity with devastating effect, resulting in increased challenges and loss of life experienced by so many individuals and families across our state, our country, and the world. This past year has given us all new perspective and, with that, hope. In less than one year, basic and translational scientists produced efficacious vaccines, and physicians, nurses, and public health officials worked to distribute them across the country, saving countless lives. The medical school has contributed in significant ways to the efforts, facilitating approximately 200,000 COVID tests, performing tens of thousands of vaccinations in the community, conducting research that has helped provide greater clarity about the disease, as well as clinical trials leading to the Emergency Use Authorization of the vaccines and medication, and providing clinical care to COVID patients in the hospital, our ambulatory clinics, the Emergency Department, Chandler Health Center, and through the use of telemedicine.
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Enhancing Professionalism, Creating Awareness of Health Inequities, Integrating Science and Practice  
New Curriculum Meets Challenges that Await
Tomorrow’s Physicians
A collaborative effort involving the medical school’s Office of Education, Curriculum Committee, and more than a dozen Student Curriculum Reform Fellows developed a reformed and revitalized curriculum to help prepare our future physicians to meet the demands of an ever-changing industry. Learn more about what was involved and the new integrated approach that incorporates the “five C’s.”
By Jennifer Forbes Mullenhard
In a career spent on improving outcomes of aging Americans affected by Alzheimer’s and related diseases, Dr. William T. Hu is focusing new research to identify biomarkers that can help diagnose the disease early and potentially develop effective treatments.
By Jillian Prior, MPA
William Hu, MD, PhD, Studies the Underlying Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease to Identify New Treatment
The COVID pandemic has highlighted that health equity is still not a reality. Rutgers researchers are hoping to increase COVID testing among Black and Latinx communities in an innovative program using healthcare workers as “ambassadors” to their family and friends.
By Beth-Ann Kerber
Tackling Health Disparities in COVID
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Enhancing Professionalism, Creating Awareness of
Health Inequities, Integrating Science and Practice
New Curriculum Meets Challenges that Await Tomorrow’s Physicians 
Dear Friends,
Welcome  to our latest all-digital issue of Robert Wood Johnson Medicine.
Since our last magazine, the COVID-19 global pandemic continued to descend on humanity with devastating effect, resulting in increased challenges and loss of life experienced by so many individuals and families across our state, our country, and the world. This past year has given us all new perspective and, with that, hope. In less than one year, basic and translational scientists produced efficacious vaccines, and physicians, nurses, and public health officials worked to distribute them across the country, saving countless lives. The medical school has contributed in significant ways to the efforts, facilitating approximately 200,000 COVID tests, performing tens of thousands of vaccinations in the community, conducting research that has helped provide greater clarity about the disease, as well as clinical trials leading to the Emergency Use Authorization of the vaccines and medication, and providing clinical care to COVID patients in the hospital, our ambulatory clinics, the Emergency Department, Chandler Health Center, and through the use of telemedicine.
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Enhancing Professionalism, Creating Awareness of Health Inequities, Integrating Science and Practice 
New Curriculum Meets Challenges that Await
Tomorrow’s Physicians
A collaborative effort involving the medical school’s Office of Education, Curriculum Committee, and more than a dozen Student Curriculum Reform Fellows developed a reformed and revitalized curriculum to help prepare our future physicians to meet the demands of an ever-changing industry. Learn more about what was involved and the new integrated approach that incorporates the “five C’s.”
By Jennifer Forbes Mullenhard
In a career spent on improving outcomes of aging Americans affected by Alzheimer’s and related diseases, Dr. William T. Hu is focusing new research to identify biomarkers that can help diagnose the disease early and potentially develop effective treatments.
By Jillian Prior, MPA
William Hu, MD, PhD, Studies the Underlying Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease to Identify New Treatment
The COVID pandemic has highlighted that health equity is still not a reality. Rutgers researchers are hoping to increase COVID testing among Black and Latinx communities in an innovative program using healthcare workers as “ambassadors” to their family and friends.
By Beth-Ann Kerber
Tackling Health Disparities in COVID
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