Newsmakers

Avon Breast Health Outreach Program Awards Grant for Breast Cancer Awareness Program to Cooper University Health Care

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The Avon Breast Health Outreach Program has awarded a $35,000 one-year grant to Cooper University Health Care’s Cancer Outreach and Screening Program to increase awareness of the life-saving benefits of early detection of breast cancer. It is the sixth year that the program has received funding from the Avon Foundation for Women to support its work on this important health issue, and in recognition of the program’s excellence.

Cooper Researcher Receives $2.4 Million NIH Grant to Study Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation

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Stephen W. Trzeciak, MD, MPH, a critical care and emergency medicine specialist at Cooper University Health Care, is the recipient of a $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a research project grant (R01) to study neurological and cognitive effects of hyperoxia after cardiac arrest. Dr. Trzeciak is the lead researcher on the project, which will include multiple centers throughout the United States. Read more.

Cooper Bone & Joint Institute Doctors Talk Sports Medicine On 610 WIP: Rib Muscle Tears & Recovery

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This Saturday, 94.1 WIP sports radio show with Glen Macnow and Ray Didinger, featured Mark Pollard, MD, of the Cooper Bone and Joint Institute, who commented on the Philadelphia Flyers right wing, Matt Read’s rib muscle tear and his estimated six week recovery time.

Cooper Works to Keep Patients in New Jersey

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In this weeks edition of NJBiz, Eli Winkler, Senior Vice President of Growth and Development, discussed the need to keep New Jersey patients from crossing the river into New York and Pennsylvania for their care. Mr. Winkler also discussed the new Cooper Cancer Institute and how it will provide better, more coordinated care for patients in the region.

Cooper Implants First Drug-Eluting Stent for PVD in New Jersey

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Cooper Vascular Surgeons implanted the first drug eluting stent for the treatment of Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) in the State of New Jersey. Zilver® PTX®(COOK MEDICAL, Bloomington, IN), the first drug-eluting stent (DES) stent of its kind, was recently approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and made available to only a select few centers of excellence in the country.

CMSRU Students Hold Unique Event for Local Youth to Mark MLK Day of Service

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On Monday, the fifty first-year medical students from Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) trained approximately 150 middle, high school and college students from throughout the region to become community leaders in exercise, nutrition and wellness.