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.
Sabina Mushtaq, MD
NJMS welcomes Dr. Sabina Mushtaq who recently joined the UMDNJ family as a full time attending physician in the Department of Psychiatry at The University Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Mushtaq will be active member of the Consultation/Liaison Service at University Hospital and will focus her outpatient practice on treating children with autism spectrum disorders. Her research and clinical interests include pervasive developmental disorders, neurobehavioral disorders in children and somatoform disorders. Dr. Sabina Mushtaq received her undergraduate degree from Fatima Jinnah Degree College in Karachi and went on to complete her medical education from Sindh Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan.
Following medical school, Dr. Mushtaq completed her general psychiatry residency at Harlem Hospital Center-Columbia University in New York. Her fellowship training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry was completed at UMDNJ-NJMS. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.Dr. Mushtaq is pleased to be building her practice in child psychiatry at UMDNJ, as well as, pursuing her academic and research interests.We are happy to have Dr. Mushtaq as part of our UMDNJ family!
Sabina Mushtaq, MD
BHSB Department of Psychiatry
183 South Orange Avenue
Office F-1522
Newark, NJ 07101
Office: 973.972.7924
973-972-1612
Pager: 973.312.3617
Fax: 973.972.1297
s.mushtaq@umdnj.edu