Centers & Institutes
Centers and Institutes
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Rowan-Virtua Regional Integrated Special Needs (RISN) Center
The Rowan-Virtua Regional Integrated Special Needs (RISN) Center provides South Jersey with its first special needs primary care facility, focused on care-coordination of integral services for the special needs population. The RISN Center creates the foundation, bridge and path for patients and caregivers to help them thrive into adulthood.
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Rowan-Virtua Child Abuse Research Education and Service (CARES) Institute
For nearly two decades, the Rowan-Virtua Child Abuse Research Education and Service (CARES) Institute has provided help and compassion–and ultimately, hope–for children who have experienced abuse. The CARES Institute is acknowledged as a model of excellence in healing children and families who have experienced abuse, neglect and violence.
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Rowan-Virtua New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging (NJISA))
Since 1989, the Rowan-Virtua New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging (NJISA), a recognized "center of excellence" based at the Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine (Rowan-Virtua SOM), has served older individuals and their families, providing medical care in varied settings and offering training for health professionals of multiple disciplines.
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Cell and Gene Therapy Center
The focus of this Center of Excellence within the Department of Cell Biology is the development of promising innovative approaches to treat neurological disorders such as Canavan Disease, Tay Sachs Disease, Sandhoff Disease and Alzheimers Disease. The Center's Director is Paola Leone, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cell Biology.
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Rowan-Virtua NeuroMusculoskeletal Institute (NMI)
The Rowan-Virtua NeuroMusculoskeletal Institute (NMI) offers a variety of services that target diseases affecting the neuromuscular system. At our comprehensive pain center we evaluate and treat both acute and chronic pain. Our doctors have a special interest in low back pain, spinal injuries and neuropathic injuries. We have onsite physical therapy and athletic trainers through the Wellness Center.
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Center for Medical Weight Loss and Metabolic Control
The Rowan Medicine Department of Family Medicine took an urgent health care need that is integrally reflected in both the Healthy 2010 and Healthy 2020 reports, and created innovative clinical and academic programs to respond to the growing problem of obesity. The approach is comprehensive, recognizing the significant role played by lifestyle factors.