South Jersey professionals have so much knowledge about everything from health and business to family law – so we made sure to talk to as many as we could this year and share their expertise. Check out some of our favorite quotes from our 2025 roundtables.
Something that surprises people is that New Jersey is an equitable state, which means it’s not always 50/50. For example, if you have equity in a house, and you put more money into the house, you might get a bigger piece of that asset when you divide it.
Olivia Mendler
Archer & Greiner
When we use the term “special needs,” we’re ultimately othering somebody. We’re calling somebody out and saying you are different in a way that we don’t know what to do, and that doesn’t help us achieve the equity we’re looking for, to recognize that people with disabilities can accomplish anything they set their minds to. They might need a helping hand along the way, but don’t we all.
Roundtable: Having Different Abilities
Adam Roth
Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey
Colorectal cancer is the only preventable cancer. Screening colonoscopies aim to find pre-cancerous lesions, called adenomas. If we can find and remove those early, that prevents colon cancer. So colorectal cancer is unique in that way. I think it’s one of the only cancers that’s preventable.
Dr. Valerie Bauer
Jefferson Health
There are many differences between a traditional divorce process and mediation. The most important is the control spouses retain over the outcome. In mediation, the spouses come up with their own answers to the issues, rather than enabling a third-party judge to impose those decisions on them.
Meghan Bradley
DeLorenzo Bradley & Banfe
With breast cancer, not all family history is the same. If you have a grandmother who is diagnosed with breast cancer at 85 years old, that does not constitute a significant family history for risk of developing breast cancer. We’re concerned about patients whose family members have been diagnosed pre-menopausal, so at a young age. The American College of Radiology recommends that women get a risk assessment by age 30 to determine if they are high risk or not, because that will change the recommended screening studies for that woman.
Dr. Lisa Zorn
Jefferson Health
OCD is a type of anxiety diagnosis that can feature either one of two types of primary symptoms or a combination of both. It’s built there right in the diagnosis itself: obsessions, these are thoughts that come into our head that are really distressing and impact how we go about our daily life. Those thoughts can be coupled with what are called compulsions. These are acts that people do to help make the obsession go away, whether it seems rational or not, like counting numbers, checking things, washing hands.
Stephen Mateka
Inspira Health
A lot of the cancer societies have been steering away from the self breast exam, and that comes from basically a lot of women doing self breast exams, not finding any abnormalities, and thinking, “You know what? I’m going to skip my mammogram because I don’t feel anything.” We know that screening mammograms can detect breast cancer before you can feel anything in your breast, and that’s when we want to find breast cancer.
Adrian Lopez
MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper
In New Jersey, there are two types of custody: legal custody and physical custody. Legal custody is almost always shared by the parents, where they both have input into major life decisions for a child. Physical custody is where the children primarily reside.
Michael Weinberg
Weinberg, Kaplan & Smith
