As an undergraduate intern at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Elizabeth Park became convinced that global health issues should be planted firmly in the curricula of medical schools.
Now a volunteer for the BU chapter of Cambridge-based Physicians for Human Rights, Park (CAS’10, MED’13), who is enrolled in the Seven-Year Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program, hopes the group’s national conference at the School of Medicine on Saturday, February 20, will invigorate efforts to make international health, human rights, and global cultural awareness part of every future doctor’s education. About 150 students and educators have registered for the daylong event, which will culminate in a Town Hall Forum on Human Rights and Health Policy, open to the public and moderated by U.S. Representative James McGovern (D-Mass.).
A year after a high-profile report ordered by President Obama confirmed the continued force-feeding of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay detention center, Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) faculty are sponsoring a forum Feb. 23 to discuss the legal, ethical and human rights implications of the practice, and to set an agenda for action […]
The Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Greater New York Alumni Club held a continuing education event on February 3 that drew a large crowd of area alumni. GSDM Professor & Chair of Restorative Sciences/Biomaterials Dan Nathanson MSD 85, PROS 90 presented a lecture titled, “What Don’t We Know About New […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Slone Epidemiology Center and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have found that pre-pregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain are associated with an increased risk of preterm birth in African American participants from the Black Women’s Health Study. This study appears in the March issue of […]
Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center have found a direct link between neighborhood socioeconomic status and risk for type 2 diabetes in African American women. The study, which appears on-line American Journal of Epidemiology, is the first prospective study to examine the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and incidence of type 2 diabetes in […]
On January 8, the Council on Scientific Affairs (COSA) selected Susan Baloul ORTHO 09, ORTHO 11 as the winner of the 2010 American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) Milo Hellman Research Award. The award will be presented at the Excellence Luncheon held during 2010 AAO Annual Session in Washington, D.C. in May. Dr. Baloul was chosen […]
In a new book published by Oxford University Press, BU School of Public Health Professor George Annas employs contemporary disputes involving death and disaster to explore the radical changes underway in public health practice, human rights discourse to promote health, and the application of constitutional law to medicine. American bioethics, still in its infancy, is […]
The Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research is honoring Dr. Haralambos (Harry) Gavras on Friday, April 16, with a mini-symposium on hypertension. The symposium is in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of hypertension. Dr. Gavras serves as professor of Medicine at BUSM and Chief of the Hypertension and Atherosclerosis Section. He has […]
The Master of Science Program in Biomedical Forensic Sciences was granted full accreditation for a term of five years by the Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC) on January 19, 2010. The Program, now in its fourth year, is under the direction of Dr. Robin W. Cotton in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology.
Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other flow cytometry users on the BUMC are invited to attend a free seminar on how to analyze flow cytometry experiments. The BUMC Flow Cytometry Core Facility is offering this seminar to help train experienced users in FlowJo software, which is a very valuable tool for handling multiparameter flow data. […]