Class of 2020: Kathleen Mazza, PhD Biomedical Informatics For Kathleen Mazza, the Learning Never Stops For her dissertation in Biomedical Informatics, Kathleen Mazza studied a pilot artificial intelligence chatbot program that monitored patients after their release from the hospital. She couldn’t have known how important that knowledge would be more than a [...]
Class of 2020: Adam Coughlan, DPT DPT Grad Finds Niche During Rotation in Long-Term Care At the Helen Hayes Rehabilitation Center in New York, people who lost limbs, suffered brain trauma or had catastrophic spinal cord injuries can spend months working to reclaim their mobility. Adam Coughlan, a member of the Rutgers [...]
Unsung Warriors: Medical Lab Scientists Who Are Fighting Covid-19 They are the hidden heroes in the COVID-19 pandemic – the medical laboratory scientists who work behind the scenes battling the viral outbreak. Like detectives seeking a suspect, they search for evidence of the novel corona virus in swabbed body fluids. Wearing layers of protective [...]
Student Puts Hobby to Use Making 3D Masks From his home, Joseph Rodriguez is helping to fight the corona virus. The Rutgers School of Health Professions cardiovascular sonography student is using his collection of 3D printers to make plastic face shields to protect hospital workers from infection. “My clinical rotation was postponed [...]
Providing Disaster Response Counseling at a COVID-19 Testing Site For 20 years, Dawn Reinhardt-Wood has served on her county’s disaster response crisis counseling team - during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Sandy, and episodes of school violence and suicide - but she never experienced anything like the COVID-19 pandemic. “In this [...]
Scholarship Winner Advocates for Greater Role for PAs in Health Care Second-year Physician Assistant student Molly deButts not only wants to practice medicine, she wants to further the relatively young profession. She has organized fellow students to lobby for Medicare to ease restrictions requiring supervising practitioners to re-document work by PA students [...]