Creative Arts Healthcare
The University Hospital UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
Registration is now open for those who would like to take part in the upcoming sessions of Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare, a national award-winning reading program for health care professionals. The program is a collaborative effort between the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Creative Arts Healthcare.-The University Hospital, and UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School.
The scholar facilitator for the 2012 Literature and Medicine is Suzanne McConnell, Writer, Fiction Editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, and Adjunct Professor of English, Hunter College.
To register, call 973-972-8833 or email: kaufmadi@umdnj.edu. When leaving a message, please be sure to provide your full name, department, phone number, and email address.
The Program is open to the entire UMDNJ community. FREE BOOKS and evening refreshments will be provided. Enrollment is, however, limited to 20 participants. Both new and prior participants are welcome to register. Participants are asked to ensure that they can commit to attending all six sessions before registering. Anyone who misses two sessions will lose his or her spot to someone on the waiting list.
The 2012 Literature and Medicine sessions will be held in the Student Affairs Conference Room, MSB-C654b on the following Wednesday evenings from 5:30PM - 7:30PM:
January 11
February 1
February 22
March 14
April 11
May 9
Should you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact Dr. Diane Kaufman at 973-972-8833 or email kaufmadi@umdnj.edu.
Kai A. Bickenback, MD.
NJMS welcomes Dr. Kai A. Bickenbach who recently joined the UMDNJ family as a full time attending physician at University Hospital and NJMS faculty as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology. His practice will focus primarily on gastrointestinal (GI) oncology and endocrine surgery with specific interests in esophageal, gastric, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, peritoneal, and colorectal malignancies. His research interests are focused clinical outcomes and biomarkers related to pancreatic and metastatic colorectal cancer.
Dr. Bickenbach was born in London, England. His family moved to the United States while he was young and he eventually attended University of Michigan where he majored in Cellular Molecular Biology and graduated Cum Laude. After graduating, he enrolled in medical school at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. After completing medical school, he pursued his general surgery residency at University of Chicago. During this time he became interested in the medical and surgical management of cancer patients. This led him to pursue a research fellowship for two years during his residency in which he studied the use of viral vectors in the treatment of gastrointestinal tumors under the guidance of Dr. Ralph Weichselbaum. He was awarded the Charles B. Huggins Annual Basic Science Research Award. Additionally, he was awarded the University of Chicago Surgical Society Travel Award which allowed him to study oncologic surgery in Santiago, Chile for one month.
Following his residency, Dr. Bickenbach completed a fellowship in Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. During this fellowship he received advanced training in surgical oncology including liver, biliary tract and pancreatic cancer treatment. Additionally, he received advanced training in minimally invasive and robotic surgery. While at Memorial, he developed several research and clinical projects focused on pancreatic, gastric and metastatic colorectal cancer. This research resulted in several presentations at national meetings and multiple peer reviewed publications.
Dr. Bickenbach is ready to build his surgical oncology practice at University Hospital and pursue his research interests at NJMS.
Kai Bickenbach, MD
NJMS-UH Cancer Center
Department of Surgery
Division of Surgical Oncology 205 South Orange Avenue
Room G-1222 Newark, NJ 07103
Office: 973.972.1110
Direct: 973.972.3115
Pager: 973.259.2126
Fax: 973.972.3730
bickenka@umdnj.edu