BUSM researchers have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal brain activity when looking at facial expressions of others. The findings, which appear in the August 11 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, confirm that […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have shown that disclosing genetic risk information to adult children of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) who request this information does not result in significant short-term psychological distress. The report from the REVEAL Study*, which appears in the July 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, is the first randomized trial to disclose to participants whether or not they carried the ε4 variant of the APOE gene, a variant that has been found to increase the risk of developing AD.
In the complicated, multi-billion dollar business of Medicare reimbursement, one important consideration — quality — has been neglected when determining what doctors and hospitals get paid for the services they deliver. For nearly 40 years, the federal government has been a passive payer of the medical bills for the nation’s largest health plan, anteing up […]
On July 29, Steve Morash, director of emergency planning and response at Boston University, will lead a seminar on BUMC’s plan for addressing major crises at BU. This is an excellent opportunity for students, staff, faculty and administrators to learn about how the services provided by the schools and hospitals lining Albany Street would respond […]
Rodger Charlton, MD, FRCGP, Associate Clinical Professor in Medical Education and Lead for GP Specialty Teaching at Warwick Medical School, will be speaking at the Department of Family Medicine Grand Rounds on the “Patient Journey in the UK National Health Service”. The event will be held on Tuesday, July 28 from 12-1 in the Dowling […]
Financially disadvantaged students accepted at BUSM and GSDM have reason to cheer. The Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently awarded BUSM $125,502 and GSDM $26,893 through the Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students program. Financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds enrolled full-time in health professions will be given scholarships through […]
The fourth annual John McCahan Education Day was held on June 22, 2009 at the Boston University School of Medicine. This year’s event, sponsored by Boston University’s Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine and Public Health, provided participants from all three schools with the opportunity to showcase their scholarly activities in education and to learn new skills. Faculty, trainees, and staff attended workshops, a poster session, and presentations by the recipients of best poster abstracts.
Alice K. Jacobs, M.D., professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology at Boston Medical Center received the American Heart Association Gold Heart Award. The award is the highest honor the association gives to volunteers who have provided continued, distinguished service.
Carl Franzblau, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and associate dean Division of Graduate Medical Sciences received a Distinguished PhD Alumnus Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine on June 2, 2009. Dr. Franzblau is a member of the class of 1962 and was one of the first students to be awarded […]
President Robert A. Brown has appointed two faculty members as the first William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors at Boston University: George Annas, the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights and chair of the School of Public Health department of health law, bioethics and human rights, and James Collins, a College of Engineering professor of biomedical engineering.