Master Educators’ Guild Names 2008 Members

The UMDNJ-Stuart D. Cook, MD Master Educators’ Guild recently named its newest members from the RWJMS faculty: Kathleen K. Casey, MD ’82, clinical professor of medicine; Michael J. Leibowitz, MD, PhD, professor of molecular genetics, microbiology, and immunology and director of academic diversity initiatives, UMDNJ-Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at RWJMS (GSBS); Stephen Moorman, MD, associate professor of
neuroscience and cell biology; and John Pintar, PhD, professor of neuroscience and cell biology and member, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine. Dr. Leibowitz and Dr. Pintar were nominated as GSBS faculty.

Kathleen K. Casey, MD, ’82, clinical professor of medicine

Working closely with 100 or more students each year, Dr. Casey models clinical excellence, scientific rigor, compassion for the patient, and dedication to the community. She directs the second-year physical diagnosis course and the third-year clerkship at Jersey Shore University
Medical Center (JSUMC). She serves as associate program director of the JSUMC internal medicine residency program and is site program director for the joint infectious diseases fellowship on the two campuses.

Michael J. Leibowitz, MD, PhD, professor of molecular genetics, microbiology, andimmunology and director of academic diversity initiatives, UMDNJ-Graduate School of BiomedicalSciences at RWJMS (GSBS)

Dr. Leibowitz is a national leader in the recruitment, retention,and training of underrepresented minority students for careers in biomedical research. Dr. Leibowitz has supervised scores of undergraduate and medical
student trainees in his laboratory; as thesis advisor, as mentor, as thesis committee member and advisor for minority graduate students. Many of his protégés earned grant support from the National Institutes of Health. In 1992, he was appointed acting associate dean of the GSBS, with a full appointment in 1995. He led in the creation of the molecular biosciences graduate programs umbrella and is founder and course director of the ethical scientific conduct course.

Stephen Moorman, MD, associate professor of neuroscience and cell biology

Dr. Moorman advises and mentors extensively. His memorable teaching techniques and educational innovations engage learning communities both locally and nationally. The academic community benefits from his original applications of technology, including video productions that assist medical students in gross anatomy, sophisticated, detail-specific
course assessment software, and computer-assisted videoconferencing. He may be best known for “Prof-in-a-Box,” a distance learning
technique that he developed, which uses Internet videoconferencing to put an anatomist — from a nearby office or anywhere in the world —
tableside with dissection teams.

John Pintar, PhD, professor of neuroscience and cell biology and member,
Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine

Dr. Pintar teaches first-year medical students in histology and in cellular and genetic mechanisms, which he co-directs. He also codirects and teaches the graduate course in advanced cell biology, entailing assigning and grading a writing project for 50 to 80 graduate students each year. He directs the joint Rutgers-GSBS program in neuroscience and is responsible for recruiting and training the program’s graduate students. Furthermore, he is committed to training graduate students and fellows in his own laboratory and has served on thesis committees for more than 35 additional graduate students.