Human Health
Kenneth Kinter
Assistant Professor
Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Counseling Professions
School of Health Professions
Key topics: Helping vs. Enabling; Stages of Change and Motivational Interviewing; Trauma-Informed Care; Support for Families with Mentally Ill/Addicted Loved One; Sex Addiction; DSM 5; Crisis Intervention and Suicide; Psychiatric Emergencies
Kenneth Kinter, MA, LPC, is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University and has been employed by Rutgers/UMDNJ since 2004. He has taught Group Dynamics in the Associates Degree Program. His current responsibilities include the implementation of…
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Kelvin Kwan
Associate Professor
Cell Biology & Neurscience
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Development and Regeneration of the Inner Ear
Epigenetic Alterations during Neuronal Differentiation in Inner Ear Stem Cells
I received my undergraduate degree in Biology at Caltech and subsequently went to Harvard College for my Ph.D. in Biochemistry. I pursued my post-doctoral position at Harvard Medical School in sensory neuroscience and was an Instructor in the…
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Jeffrey P. Levine, MD, MPH
Director of Reproductive & Gender Health Programs and Professor; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Family Medicine and Community Health
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Key topics: Women's health issues: contraception, menopausal symptoms, osteoporosis, abnormal uterine bleeding, abortion, PCOS, sexual dysfunction, and obesity.
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Michael Mathews
Professor
Department of Medicine
New Jersey Medical School
Key topics: Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2); COVID-19 pandemic (COVID-19)
Dr. Michael B. Mathews received his BA and PhD degrees in Natural Sciences / Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge. After a year of voluntary service teaching in Kenya, he began his research career under the mentorship of Professor …
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Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Key topics: Severe Sepsis & Septic Shock Resuscitation; Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest
Starting medical training many years ago as an EMT provided Johathan McCoy a different perspective of acute care. After completing medical school at Johns Hopkins, residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of…
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Michael McDonough
Associate Teaching Professor
Health Administration
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Health Administration, Medical Humanities, Medicare, Long Term Care, Bio-ethics
Michael J. McDonough, an Associate Teaching Professor and Undergraduate Program Coordinator of Health Administration at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, has worked as an executive in the health care field since…
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Aziz Merchant
Associate Professor of Surgery
Interim Division Chief of General Surgery and Acute Care Surgery
Department of Surgery, New Jersey Medical School
Key topics: Minimally Invasive Surgery, Robotic Surgery, Heartburn/Reflux Surgery, Emergency General Surgery, General surgery, Surgical simulation and education, Health Disparities research
Dr. Merchant is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at New Jersey Medical School, as well as the Interim Division Chief of General Surgery and Acute Care Surgery. His clinical expertise and areas of…
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Patricia O'Brien-Richardson
Associate Professor
Public Health/Health Administration
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Key topics: Cultural competency; Cultural health (Black women and adolescent girls); Hair Discrimination; Urban public health disparities; Education policy; Social justice; Race, class, and gender policies
Dr. Patricia O’Brien-Richardson is an Associate Professor of Teaching at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. For the past ten years, she has been the CEO and Founder of Move it Nation, Inc., a public health non-profit…
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Maya Ramagopal
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Key topics: Pediatrics; Asthma; Sleep disorders in children
Dr. Ramagopal has been at the Division of Pulmonology and Cystic Fibrosis Center since 2006. She is the Pediatric Medical Director of the Sleep Laboratory. She completed medical school in Pondicherry, India, pediatric residency at the University…
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Mark Robson
Professor and Director
Department of Entomology, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences/NJAES
Key topics: Pesticides, toxicology, human health, environmental health, risk assessment, international and global environmental issues.
Dr. Robson is Director of the NJ Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) and Professor of Entomology at Rutgers and Professor of Environmenal Health at UMDNJ School of Public Health. Dr. Robson is an expert in the field of environmental and…
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Donald Schaffner
Distinguished Professor and Extension Specialist and Chair
Department of Food Science
Rutgers NJAES Cooperative Extension
Key topics: Food safety; germs; bacteria in food; E. coli; Salmonella; hand washing; 5 second rule
Dr. Donald W. Schaffner is Extension Specialist in Food Science and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. His research interests include quantitative microbial risk assessment, predictive food microbiology, handwashing and cross-…
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Michael Shapiro
Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
New Jersey Medical School
Key topics: Bioethics; End of life decision-making; Physician assisted death; Euthanasia; Organ donation and transplantation
Dr. Shapiro is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He did a General Surgery Residency at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and a post-doctoral fellowship in…
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Vasanthi R. Sunil
Associate Research Professor
Pharmacology and Toxicology
Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy
Key topics: Mindfullness meditation, mindful movement, hinduism, sanskrit, end-of-life issues
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Jay Tischfield
Professor
Department of Genetics
School of Arts and Sciences
Key topics: Genetics, medical genetics, gene disorders, genetically linked diseases, genetics of psychiatric disorders, large-scale genetics, complex human diseases, genetics of alcoholism.
Jay A. Tischfield, Ph.D., is a well-known authority in the genetics field. He directs the Rutgers University Cell and DNA Repository, the largest university-based repository in the world.
A diplomat of the American Board of Medical…