By Jenna Portnoy/Statehouse Bureau
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie announced today that he has endorsed an advisory committee’s plan to overahaul medical education in New Jersey, including a revamped University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, and an expanded research university in South Jersey by combining Rowan University and Rutgers-Camden.
The new recast health sciences university in Newark would be renamed New Jersey Health Sciences University, and the publicly owned University Hospital would be run by a private management company.
Christie said the plan would “refocus” UMDNJ’s Newark-based schools, and grant autonomy to the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, the University Behavioral Health Care in Piscataway, and the Public Health Research Institute in Newark.
In South Jersey, the proposed merger of Rowan and Rutgers-Camden would result in a broader institution to be known as Rowan University, with campuses in Glassboro and Camden.
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