Commercial law firm, Flaster Greenberg, recently announced it has launched a new Art Law Industry Group in partnership with its Litigation, Transportation Law and Insurance Counseling & Recovery departments. Offering the services of attorneys who are experienced in art law and protecting collectors from the loss or damage that may occur to artwork while on display, the firm’s Art Law Industry Group includes attorneys who hail from a variety of legal fields and backgrounds. The attorneys leading the Art Law Industry Group are Shareholders Christopher Merrick and Jay Levin and Counsel Terri ..read more

Centenary University announced Thursday the launch of an extensive menu of programs designed to foster intellectual growth, emotional competence and career success. Presented predominantly online, the Centenary University Human Performance Center will offer courses that include coaching and mentoring, professional certificates and degree programs for a broad audience — from high school and college students to athletes, coaches, parents, veterans and career professionals. “The new Centenary University Human Performance Center is dedicated to advancing personal growth and lifelong learning,” Cen ..read more

Donna Custard, the president of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation and, as such, the head of JAG — or Jobs for America’s Graduates New Jersey — fully admits that the nonprofit is not well-known. “We’re not a household name, but we should be,” she said. That’s important, now more than ever before, for two big reasons: The program has helped more than 4,000 at-risk high school seniors from at-risk communities graduate and move into postsecondary education and career training that changes the course of their life and their extended family; The program is in line to get a massive fundi ..read more

Rutgers University School of Nursing‘s graduate education programs are once again ranked among the top programs in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report. The school is ranked No. 5 for its Doctor of Nursing practice program — up one notch from last year — and the Master of Science in Nursing program remains at No. 14 in 2024 Best Graduate Programs, published April 9. The DNP and MSN rankings are based on widely accepted indicators of excellence such as program size, student excellence, research activity, faculty resources and qualitative ratings from experts. Rutgers School of ..read more

According to the latest findings of the 2024 Medscape Physician Compensation Report, in 2023, physicians saw a steady increase in total compensation. Still, any contentment about their compensation gains was undercut by the effects of high inflation rates. Sixty-one percent of physicians said they believe medicine is an underpaid profession. Moreover, 51% felt personally underpaid relative to their job duties. These perceptions raised the question: Can physician pay both be generous and not enough to justify the amount of stress and sacrifice? As in previous years, this year’s report found gen ..read more

The New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute added three new members to its board of directors, each with expertise and a strong commitment to advancing health care safety, quality and affordability for everyone. Dr. Ashish Parikh, Andrea Martinez-Mejia and John Leyman are all well-known and respected throughout the state. They join a board that includes newer and longtime members. The collective talent and experience of the Quality Institute’s board drives the Quality Institute’s mission and long-term goals to improve the quality, safety and affordability of health care for everyone. Linda Sc ..read more

Approximately 100 people crowded into the lobby of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton to hear about “AI in Healthcare” at a recent Princeton Tech Meetup. There was plenty of networking going on, as meetup members both old and new traded information and talked about their businesses while consuming drinks and pizza. Introducing the evening, organizer Venu Moola recapped the history of the Princeton Tech Meetup, which started at a bar in Princeton and moved to the Princeton Public Library, where it took up permanent residency. When COVID hit, the meetup went on a hiatus because “I didn’t w ..read more

Less is more today in cancer care. … And Holy Name‘s Dr. George Miller has more to say about that: After years of relying on a sometimes heavy-hitting trifecta of radiation, drugs and surgeries, he notes that there’s a theme of oncologists looking for less (and even less) invasive approaches that can prove equally beneficial to patients. That trend is the backdrop for the latest cancer care innovation coming to Holy Name, where Miller serves as division chief of surgical oncology and medical director of oncologic surgery. The Teaneck institution plans to add an ultrasound-based therapeutic tec ..read more

Englewood Health executive Helene Wolk said she’s deeply passionate about screening and its critical role in either prevention or early diagnosis of cancer. Over the past few years, it’s hard to argue most shared in that feeling. “In the pandemic, a number of tests — annual mammography, colonoscopies, lung screenings — many people omitted them,” Wolk said. From the perspective of health care leaders, cancer screening was always important and safe, even throughout the pandemic. Yet not all patients felt comfortable enough (or available enough) to pursue those screenings during the many waves of ..read more

Almost a year after Rutgers University officials approved a one-of-a-kind fusion of its two accredited medical schools into one larger entity, community skepticism still abounds. The school’s leaders hope to counter that. All eyes are on the handling of the combination of the New Jersey Medical School in Newark and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, which are being transitioned into a singular institution with two regional campuses, referred to as the Rutgers School of Medicine. Robert Johnson, dean of the New Jersey Medical School, the state’s oldest medical school, said the ..read more