Rana Awdish, MD, author of In Shock, discussed her best-selling memoir based on her first-hand account of going from a young critical care physician to a dying patient in an instant. She was the featured speaker for the Seventh Annual Berkowitz Family Foundation Lecture Program.… Read more.
Sepsis can affect anyone at any time, but older people, those with immunocompromised conditions, and children – particularly premature babies and infants – can be more susceptible to developing it.
Sometimes incorrectly referred to as blood poisoning, sepsis is the body’s response to infection.… Read more.
MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper has joined a Lung Cancer Early Detection study aimed at improving lung cancer screening methods for those at risk. The study is part of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Moon Shots ProgramTM, a collaborative effort to accelerate advances that save patients’ lives.… Read more.
Click here for the flyer!… Read more.
The Cooper IT team recently launched the ServiceNow portal to provide you with a quick and convenient way to submit and track your IT requests and non-urgent issues.
ServiceNow makes your interactions with Cooper IT easy.… Read more.
Debra Williams, RN, MSN, CCRN-K, TCRN
Trauma Outreach/Injury Prevention Coordinator
Cooper University Health Care
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), falls are the leading cause of non-fatal, unintentional injuries in children under the age of 9 and in adults over the age of 24.… Read more.
Music and Medicine, a live discussion of humanism and its harmony with medicine, will be brought to life by renowned jazz performers Denis DiBlasio (http://denisdiblasio.com/) and Brian Betz (http://www.brianbetzjazz.com/) at a special program.… Read more.
Cooper University Health Care recently recognized Jennifer Orr, RN, of Collingswood, NJ, with The DAISY Award for providing exceptional nursing care. Orr is a nurse in Cooper’s Intensive Care Unit.
Orr was nominated by Mary Jane Durkin, MSN, RN, OCN, an oncology clinical educator at Cooper, following a hospitalization.… Read more.
The Cooper Foundation, along with city officials and school leaders, distributed backpacks and school supplies to every student at KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy (KCNA) Lanning Square primary and middle school campus and KCNA Whittier Middle School in Bergen Square.… Read more.
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) is the winner of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) 2019 Spencer Foreman Award for Community Engagement, announced Annette C. Reboli, MD, Dean of CMSRU.
“This is an incredible honor from the national organization for U.S.… Read more.