NJIT Professor Receives NSF Grants Totaling $2.8M to Design Solutions for Responsible AI
If you're a human resource specialist grappling with AI-based decision systems for hiring good candidates, or a data scientist trying to develop transparent and accountable ranking algorithms for decision-making in critical socio-technical contexts, you will likely...
Rutgers, GSK, and Deep 6 AI teamed up to develop a COPD exacerbation risk algorithm.
Identifying patients at risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations is an important component of optimal patient care because exacerbation can significantly impact a patient’s mortality. While predictive algorithms based on claims data are...
Rutgers Helps Document How Surge of Cheap, Flavored Cigars Targets Young Consumers.
As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prepares to issue a final rule prohibiting flavored cigars, a report issued today by the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies (INTS) and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids documents how tobacco companies have...
A Quarter of Teens with Autism Go Undiagnosed, Rutgers Researchers Find.
About a quarter of 16-year-olds with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have yet to receive a formal diagnosis, according to research from Rutgers. The study, which appears in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, used a method called active multiple-source...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Samples' article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine titled, "Buprenorphine After Nonfatal Opioid Overdose: Reduced Mortality Risk in Medicare Disability Beneficiaries." Drug overdose mortality remains an urgent health concern in the U.S.,...
Rutgers Receives $4.2 Million to Develop Center for Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research in Asian and Pacific Americans
The Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, working in collaboration with New York University (NYU), has received more than $4.2 million in funding from the National Institutes on Aging (NIA) to develop the Resource Center for Alzheimer’s...
Inaugural Rutgers Health Hack 2023, Nov 3rd – 5th
In Person at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick, NJ Professionals and Students are encouraged to apply from all relevant fields including: Healthcare Computer Science Engineering Artificial Intelligence Business Communications Graphic Design Over...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Zorowitz's article in Nature Human Behaviour titled, "Inattentive responding can induce spurious associations between task behaviour and symptom measures." Although online samples have many advantages for psychiatric research, some potential pitfalls...
Join NJ ACTS Special Populations Core Seminar 10/31 at 1pm
Improving Pain Strategies in the Emergency Department with Cynthia Santos, MD Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Zoom | 1–2 pm ET Dr. Cynthia Santos is Associate Professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and is triple board certified in Emergency Medicine, Medical...
Rutgers-Newark Receives $7.4 million Federal Grant to Continue Long-Term Study on Alzheimer’s Risks in African Americans.
A ground-breaking long-term study of Alzheimer's disease in African Americans being conducted by Rutgers University-Newark will double in size thanks to a new five-year $7.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the federal National Institutes of...