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Summer 2020
In This Issue:
Feature Articles:
In Every Issue: 1 | Message from the Dean
35 | Research News
37 | Social Media Highlights 38 | Alumni Connection
46 | Class Notes
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En Garde! Kamali Thompson ’21 Primed to Fence on U.S. Olympic Team
By Kate O’Neill
Moving toward a Cure for Epilepsy through a Novel Biochemical Approach
By Randy Young
Should We Screen Children for Too Much Screen Time?
By Jodi McCaffrey
Maria F. Ciminelli, MD, FAAFP:
Leading New Jersey’s Family Physicians By Sherrie Negrea
Neurologist Provides Emergency Medical Care after Helicopter Crash
By Jillian Prior
Advancing Maternal Health: Research Seeks to Reduce the Complications Associated with Pregnancy
By Jodi McCaffrey
Study Finds a Drug-Like Compound That May Prevent Parkinson’s Disease Progression
By Jillian Prior
Better Together: Medical School Joins Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital on the Front Line to Respond to COVID-19 Crisis
By Jodi McCaffrey
Rutgers Researcher Opens a New Pathway to Understanding Sex Bias in Autism
By Sherrie Negrea
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Alumni Profiles:
40 | Burton J. Tabaac, MD, Vascular Neurologist and Resident Alumnus, Appointed Stroke Center Director By Kate O’Neill
42 | Containing the Contagion: Laryssa Patti, MD ’13 42 | Joseph P. Costabile, MD ’86, Shares Deployment to
New York City to Fight COVID-19
44 | Jennea Correia, MD ’05: Military to Civilian Medicine Mom By Brian Hudgins
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