Biomedical and Health Sciences: Newark Health Science Campus

Katherine Aquino

Contact

Phone
848-932-1528

Research

Disability and accessibility in organizational environments

Activities

  • Directs the SGS–BHS Training Grant Support Office (TGSO), providing strategic, administrative, and operational leadership for training-grant proposal development; oversees staff, data systems, and infrastructure that support competitive, high-quality research training initiatives across Rutgers Health.
  • Implements strategic and educational priorities for SGS–BHS, collaborating with senior leadership and faculty, to advance graduate education institutional effectiveness.
  • Leads the development and implementation of fully online graduate programming, coordinating instructional design teams to translate in-person master’s programs into high-quality, accessible online learning environments.
  • Oversees CTSA-affiliated translational science training initiatives (NJ ACTS), supervising cross-institutional personnel and operations related to program activities, outcomes assessment, and data management in partnership with Rutgers, Princeton, and NJIT.

Biomedical Engineering

Program Description

The Biomedical Engineering program combines the strengths of the Rutgers School of Graduate Studies at the Newark Health Science Campus with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to meet the growing needs for biomedical engineers at the cutting edges of technology and innovation. A diverse faculty lead research projects in areas such as:

Biomedical Engineering Track Faculty & Research