The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs invites the BUMC community to march with “PRIDE” and show support for LGBT students, faculty and staff in the Annual Boston LGBT Pride Parade on Saturday, June 9. Showing your support for LGBT friends and colleagues reaffirms our openness and strengthens the diverse fabric of our institution. “The […]
nvestigators from Boston University (BU) and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System have shown evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in brain tissue from blast-exposed military service personnel. Laboratory experiments conducted by the investigators demonstrated that exposure to a single blast equivalent to a typical improvised explosive device (IED) results in CTE and long-term brain impairments that accompany the disease. They also found that the blast wind, not the shock wave, from the IED blast leads to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and long-term consequences, including CTE.
Maureen T. Kavanah, MD, an Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and a surgical oncologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has received the prestigious 2012 National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Distinguished Investigator Lifetime Achievement Award for her extraordinary contributions and meritorious service to the NSABP in support […]
As a kid in New York City, Robert C. Lowe always knew he wanted to be a doctor. Teaching, however, never crossed his mind, he says, because he wasn’t the best public speaker in high school and college. Fast forward several decades to 2010, when the School of Medicine’s graduating class selected the associate professor […]
As part of the Meet the CTSI monthly lecture series, the Medical Campus research community is invited to join Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, Mary-Tara Roth, RN, Linda Rosen, Mary Aldrich, RN and Kimberly Russell-Lucas, MPH, CCRP to learn about “Clinical Research Resources and Facilities.” Each month the CTSI will introduce one or more of its […]
Do you need to find a roommate, an apartment, or someone to sublet your place? The annual BUMC Housing Fair is free and open to the BUMC community including current and incoming students to the schools of Medicine, Public Health, Dental Medicine and division of Graduate Medical Sciences. The fair offers a great opportunity to […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) postgraduate student Simone Ellis has been selected as a 2012 Boston Schweitzer Fellow. Over the next year Ellis and 15 other local graduate students will learn to effectively address the social factors that impact health while developing leadership skills. The fellows will partner with community organizations to develop and […]
Don’t miss the seventh annual John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day on May 23. This all day event is sponsored by Boston University’s Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Public Health, and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences. Medical Campus Education Day allows members of the Medical Campus to showcase their scholarly activities in education. Faculty, […]
Robert C. Lowe, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Education Director for the Section of Gastroenterology at Boston Medical Center, will be presented with a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Commencement exercises on May 20. “This is one of the University’s highest teaching awards, and we are honored that Dr. Lowe will be […]
“Stigma: Lessons and New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness,” will be the topic of the May 10 Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Bernice A. Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research will be the guest speaker. Professor Pescosolido received a BA […]