Author: Lisa Brown

BUMC Program Successfully Prepares Minority Students for Dental School

Boston University’s Oral Health Sciences (OHS) master’s program is a successful credential-enhancing program for dental school applicants, while also serving as a pipeline to increase the number of qualified applicants from underrepresented minority (URM) groups. There are a variety of academic enrichment programs for medical school applicants however, development of pre-dental enrichment programs has lagged […]

Celebrating the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Medical Campus community gathered in Hiebert Lounge on Thursday, Jan. 24, to commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year the annual event featured a conversation with Crystal Ann Williams, Associate Provost for Diversity & Inclusion. Rafael Ortega, MD, Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion, welcomed more than 100 attendees. Dr. […]

Dental School Unveils New Albany Street Entrance

It was a momentous return from Intersession for the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM), which officially opened its new Patient and Visitor entrance located at 635 Albany St. as of 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2. The new entrance now is the school’s official address. The opening of the patient and visitor entrance […]

Interdisciplinary BUMC Team Investigates Dialysis Access Malfunction

Patients with chronic kidney disease frequently develop stenosis of their intrathoracic large veins (i.e., central venous stenosis), which jeopardizes their prospects of having a functional dialysis access, while the current modality to diagnose this complication is fraught with inaccuracies. An interdisciplinary team of clinicians, biomedical engineers and scientists, including members of the Evans Center IBR […]

NEIDL Researchers Create Tool to Study New Virus

Could help determine if Ebola-like LLOV can cause disease in humans In recent years, traces of new zoonotic viruses—pathogens that live in animals and could potentially cause infectious diseases in humans—have been discovered in bats, fish, and other species around the world. But scientists have been stumped in their search for the complete genome for […]

100 BUMC Students Attend Diversity Mixer

On Wednesday, Aug. 8, approximately 100 students participated in a Medical Campus student diversity mixer. The event allowed underrepresented minority students from the three schools on the medical campus, Medicine, Public Health and Dental Medicine, to come together to mingle, share ideas and build relationships. BUSM Associate Dean of Diversity & Inclusion Dr. Rafael Ortega, […]