Research Activities & Interests

Cancer Screening

• NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection (NJCEED) Program Screening Access of Value to Men and Women (SAVE).

Cultural Issues

• Academic detailing (Dr. Natale-Periera).


• The Hispanic Center for Excellence (Dr. Soto-Greene).

Diabetes Mellitus

Health Care Services

HIV

• HIV and syphilis seroprevalence in an Emergency Department (Dr. Jaker).


• HIV identification and counseling in the Emergency Department (Dr. Atkin)


• HIV screening (Dr. Atkin).

Quality Improvement

Medical Education

• Clerkship timing and disparity in performance of racial-ethnic minorities.


• Comparison of OSCE grades in different clerkships.


• Effect of night-call on performance of medical students.


• Family Medicine and Medicine Clerkships - does rotation sequence make a difference?


• IMG and non-IMG resident evaluation of students in the Medicine Clerkship.


• Impact of a medicine clerkship culture curriculum.


• Mentoring of non-traditional students.


• Test anxiety before the OSCE versus the NBME Medicine subject examination.

Occupational Medicine

• Alternative strategies for hepatitis B vaccination for non-responders after the 6th hepatitis B vaccination (Dr. Shahani).


• Needlestick injury reporting (Dr. Shahani).


• Tuberculosis in health care workers (Dr. Shahani).

Violence

• Domestic violence and sexual abuse (Dr. Atkin).