Author: Lisa Brown

Jan. 27 Town Hall Meeting: Medical Campus Public Safety

BU Medical Campus students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Department of Public Safety and their partners from the Boston University Police and Boston Police departments at a town meeting. Learn about the collaborative work being performed by our public safety, police and emergency preparedness representatives. There will be a panel discussion moderated […]

Jan. 26 Advancing Public Health Science for Global Health: A Health Research Funder’s Perspective

Advancing Public Health Science for Global Health: A Health Research Funder’s Perspective Tuesday, Jan. 26 4:30–6 p.m. BUSM Instructional Building, Hiebert Lounge Live-Streaming Available During Event #PHForum2016 Alain Beaudet, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Alain Beaudet, MD, PhD. is the President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) since July […]

Feb. 3 BUMC Supply Center Open House

BUMC researchers are invited to the grand opening of the BUMC Supply Center, a new onsite provider of Thermo Fisher Scientific products for research needs. The Center, located in the BUSM Instructional Building in room L901, will stock frequently used products with 24/7 accessibility and prices may be discounted because there will not be a […]

MLK & Kazi Nazrul Islam: The Spirit of Inclusion

As part of the celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr., holiday, members of the medical campus community gathered in the Hiebert Lounge on Wednesday, Jan. 20, in the afternoon to hear UMass Boston Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Winston E. Langley, discuss the similarities of Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet of […]

Jan. 20 Celebrate the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

MLK & Kazi Nazrul Islam: The Spirit of Inclusion Wednesday, Jan. 20, Noon-1 p.m., Hiebert Lounge Open to Medical Campus students, faculty and staff Refreshments will be provided. Winston E. Langley Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Professor of Political Science and International Relations University of Massachusetts Boston Kazi Nazrul Islam is the national […]

Critical Thinking Workshop

More than 50 BUMC faculty, course and program directors gathered Dec. 21-22 in Hiebert Lounge to take part in the two-day joint faculty development program, “Critical Thinking Strategies for Health Professionals.” Led by Gerald Nosich, PhD, a noted authority on the subject, the workshop was designed to help teaching professionals engage their students in critical […]

Grant Awarded to Develop Methods for Diagnosing CTE During Life

Researchers from Boston University, the Cleveland Clinic, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, have been awarded a $16 million* grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH/NINDS). This seven-year, multi-center grant will be used to create methods for detecting and diagnosing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) […]

BUSM Expands Curriculum to Address Opioid Abuse

All Students Now Training in Addiction Prevention, Screening & Treatment Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has expanded the content covering opioid dependence and overdose as well as the training in prevention, screening and multidisciplinary treatment of substance abuse over each of the four years of the medical school’s curriculum in response to Massachusetts Governor […]