On Wednesday, June 12 at approximately, 9 a.m., Boston University (BU) will conduct a full-scale emergency response drill at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) at 620 Albany Street. This drill is part of the NEIDL’s ongoing safety and training program for laboratory personnel and internal and external response officials. This drill will simulate […]
Associate professorships go to seven faculty Seven Boston University Medical Campus faculty members have been recently promoted to the rank of associate professor. Noted for their outstanding research and exemplary teaching, these men and women, one from the School of Public Health and six from the School of Medicine, have made valuable contributions to the […]
SPH prof: what you don’t know could hurt them Sophie Godley, an SPH clinical assistant professor, teaches a course titled Safer Sex in the City: From Science to Policy. Photo by Michael Saunders By the time they reach adolescence, most children are familiar with the perils of driving a car: they’ve been harnessed into car […]
Little Sprouts an early-education and child care school on the ground floor of the Medical Student Residence at 815 Albany St., will be accepting infants in mid-June, in addition to toddlers and preschoolers already enrolled in the school. Priority will be given to BU Medical Campus employees and students, members of the BUMC Residency Programs, […]
The BUSM Department of Family Medicine invites the BMC campus-wide Domestic Violence Advisory Committee as well as all members of the Boston University Medical Campus and affiliated health centers to attend the fourth annual Lynne Stevens Lecture on Tuesday, May 28. Lynne Stevens, MSW, served as an assistant professor of Family Medicine at BUSM and […]
The Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (BU CSTE) has launched a new research program aimed at developing a treatment for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). The study will be funded over a three-year period by a $1.2 million gift from WWE® to the non-profit Sports Legacy Institute (SLI), a founding partner of […]
Her teaching formula: technology + professionalism = great doctors Most people return from summer vacation sporting a tan and with memories of relaxation. Deborah Vaughan came back from hers last year with hundreds of exam questions on computer software for School of Medicine students. As passionate about work as about downtime, Vaughan (GRS’72) pioneered computer-based […]
Join Gary H. Gibbons, MD, the newly named director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) during his inaugural visit to the BU Medical Campus. Dr. Gibbons will be speaking on “Setting a New Agenda for the NHLBI: Imagining Our Future” on Tuesday, May 14, 1-2 […]
George Annas, JD, MPH, recognized expert on health law, bioethics and human rights, scholar and teacher, will present the annual Howard D. Kirshenbaum, MD, Lecture to the medical campus community including members of Dr. Kirshenbaum’s family on Monday, May 13. He will speak on “Constitutional Dimensions of the Doctor-Patient Relationship” Annas is the William Fairfield […]
Don’t miss the MISU/BMC/VA/BU Medical Informatics Seminar, “Connected Health as a Tool to Improve Patient Engagement and Patient Empowerment.” Learn about how connected health programs, including remote monitoring, mobile health initiatives and other technology-enabled interventions can create behavior change, generate efficiencies and improve the quality of patient care. Specific solutions address cardiac care, at-risk pregnancies, […]