School of Public Health News

A number of UMDNJ-School of Public Health faculty and staff work directly with The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), a Center of Excellence of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

To read more about CINJ, click here.

SPH faculty and staff who are featured in the Spring 2009 issue of "Oncolyte" are identified below with
Feature Article Titles
(bookmarked in the pdf file).

Click here to view the Spring 2009 issue, which includes the following and other articles.

Feature (Bookmark Title)
Featured Faculty - Staff - Organizations
Affiliations 

Chronically Ill Patients Who Smoke Need Additional Help to Quit 
Michael B. Steinberg, MD, MPH '93
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School;
Associate Professor, UMDNJ-School of Public Health;
Clinical Medical Director, UMDNJ-School of Public Health Tobacco Dependence Program.

Researchers Explore Effects of Circadian Rhythms in Shift Workers to Prevent Breast and Prostate Cancers 
Howard M. Kipen, MD, MPH
Professor, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School;
Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health, UMDNJ-School of Public Health.
Benjamin Crabtree, PhD, MA
Professor & Director, Research Division, Family Medicine,
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School;
Professor, Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health.

Celebrating 10 Years of  LIFE
UMDNJ-School of Public Health, partner in the development of the BioCONECT interactive educational program for high school students using a website and blog, where students look at the biology of breast cancer through the eyes of fictitious teenage twins, whose mother is diagnosed with the disease.

Turning a "Fashion Passion" Into Reality
Elisa Bandera, MD, PhD
Epidemiologist, CINJ;
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School;
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health.

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SPH faculty and staff who are featured in the Fall 2008 issue of "Oncolyte" are identified below with
Feature Article Titles
(bookmarked in the pdf file).

Click here to view the Fall 2008 issue, which includes the following and other articles.

Feature (Bookmark Title)
Featured Faculty - Staff - Organizations
Affiliations

CINJ Leadership
Benjamin F. Crabtree, PhD
Interim Associate Director for Prevention, Control and Population Science, CINJ;
Professor, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School;
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health.

CINJ Research on Localized Prostate Cancer Published in JAMA
Grace Lu-Yao, PhD, MPH
Cancer Epidemiologist, CINJ;
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School;
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health.

CancerChemo Prevention: Giving the Gift of Prevention - Holiday Gift Ideas that Minimize Cancer Risk
Kitaw Demissie, MD, PhD
Co-Program Leader, Population Science Program at CINJ
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health.

CINJ Member on International Panel Determining Cell Phone Risk
Daniel Wartenberg, PhD
Member, CINJ;
Professor and Chief, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School;
Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health.

Team from CINJ Instrumental in Compiling Nutrition and Exercise Resource Guide
Elisa Bandera, MD, PhD
Chair, Sub-Group of the Task Force on Cancer Prevention, Early Detection, and Treatment in New Jersey;
Epidemiologist, CINJ;
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School;
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health.

Breast Cancer Education in New Jersey Classrooms Expands to Include Schools in South Carolina
LIFE Center,
CINJ;
Center for School and Community Health Education,
UMDNJ-School of Public Health.