The study, “Oral Health Status of Refugee Torture Survivors Seeking Care in the United States,” by Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) Clinical Instructor Harpreet K. Singh, RDH, MS, Professor and Assistant Dean for Community Partnerships and Extramural Affairs Dr. Michelle Henshaw, DDS, MPH, Clinical Instructor Susan Cote, RDH, MS, and Instructor Thayer […]
To honor the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59), the Boston University community is examining inequality, injustice, and human rights violations in the 21st century by bringing renowned aid worker Paul Farmer to speak at the annual University celebration. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to the celebration on MLK Day 2009, Monday, January […]
Among the lessons that Emily Feinberg has gleaned from her years as a pediatric nurse at Dorchester House Multi-Service Center is this: Take notice of who accompanies babies to their first medical appointments. Feinberg, an assistant professor at the BU School of Public Health and School of Medicine, recalls missing the signals years ago, […]
Stephen P. Christiansen, MD, has been named as the new Chief and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, effective March 2, 2009. Dr. Christiansen is currently a Professor of Ophthalmology and Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis and serves as Director of the Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Service there. Prior to […]
Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) students Travis Evans DMD 09 and Alice Wang DMD 09 traveled to Copper Canyon, Mexico from November 6 to November 16 with Dr. Frederick Kalinoff, a retired dentist from Arizona and volunteer Dr. Christine Hermanson, a dentist from Minnesota. Dr. Kalinoff leads outreach missions that focus on […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) is one of seven centers to receive a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use cutting edge genomic technologies to better understand lung disease. The $2.9 million awarded to BUSM will fund a study to probe the causes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a […]
Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) Professor Dr. Serge Dibart has been contracted by Wiley-Blackwell to publish his fifth book titled, “Osseous Surgery in Periodontology and Implant Dentistry.” Dr. Dibart anticipates that the book will be published in one and a half years. BUGSDM Professor and Director of the Division of Postdoctoral Prosthodontics […]
Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Preclinical Remediation Dr. Debra Pan, Megan Ryan DMD 10, and Michael Visser DMD 10 were recently accepted into the Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS) Leadership Institute. The MDS Leadership Institute is designed to empower participating dentists with the necessary tools and training […]
“Bridging Clinical, Teaching, and Scientific Roles: A Career Development Retreat for BUMC-VAMC Faculty,” on December 19, 2008, captures the importance of the BU-VA affiliation within the university mission. This day-long event will be held at the School of Medicine in room L-110 of the Instructional Building, 72 East Concord Street. Successful recent recruitment has brought […]
It took more than 30 years for Osamu Shimomura to realize that his research on jellyfish would revolutionize the world of biology and another 14 for the Nobel Prize committee to recognize his contribution. Yesterday, after learning that his discovery of luminescent proteins in jellyfish had won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry, he told […]