2012 Perkins Award Winners Reception, May 1
Read more about the Perkins Award winners here.
Author: Lisa Brown
May 3 CSTI Lecture: Commercialization of Academic Discoveries and Enabling Patients to Benefit from Your Hard Work
As part of the Meet the CTSI monthly lecture series, the Medical Campus research community is invited to join Michael Pratt, Harald Steltzer and April Effort to learn about “Commercialization of Academic Discoveries and Enabling Patients to Benefit from Your Hard Work.” Each month the CTSI will introduce one or more of its faculty, clinicians, […]
Bicknell to Offer 'Lessons from a Life in Public Health' in Lecture
William J. Bicknell has brought his public health expertise to 62 countries and has the distinction of founding BUSPH’s high-profile Department of International Health — but ask him what drives his commitment to international health and he offers the simplest of explanations: “Because it’s not nice for people to hurt. And most people can hurt […]
GSDM's Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Hosts the 4th Donald F. Booth Education Day & “Return to Residency” Program
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery hosted the fourth Donald F. Booth Education Day & “Return to Residency” Program on April 11. The event featured two sessions, the first on Maxillofacial Surgery, and the second on Emerging Technologies and Modern Implantology. Three world-renowned speakers presented their work on a variety of topics related to the title of […]
Perkins Award Winners Announced, Yearly Nod to Distinguished Staff Service
It’s a lot of work to keep and update the academic records of hundreds of medical students. Or to manage biochemistry research laboratories (especially when they’re under major renovation). Or to juggle a marketing campaign, a new software installation, and summer term administration. Three staffers have received one of the annual John S. Perkins Distinguished […]
Winners of GSDM’s 2012 Science Day Honored
The winners of GSDM’s 2012 Science Day were celebrated at a luncheon on April 10. Students who took first place in the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and post-doctoral fellow poster and oral presentation categories, and the winner of the ADA/Dentsply Award, were all presented with awards. Their posters decorated the perimeter of the Hiebert Lounge and attendees […]
BUSM’s Sean Palfrey, MD, FAAP, Named First Massachusetts CDC Childhood Immunization Champion
Sean Palfrey, MD, FAAP, professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at BUSM and BUSPH, and Director of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (MCAAP) Immunization initiative has been named the first Massachusetts recipient of the 2012 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Childhood Immunization Champion Award. Established this year by the […]
“My First Year at JAMA”, Editor-in-Chief Howard Bauchner, MD, Returns to BUMC as Alpert Lecturer
Save the date, May 17! Join Howard C. Bauchner, MD, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA and Scientific Publications and Multimedia Applications as he speaks on “My First Year at JAMA.” Dr. Bauchner was named Editor-in Chief on July 1, 2011, after serving as a faculty member of pediatrics and community health sciences on the Medical Campus for 25 years. He also served as the vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at BMC/BUSM and assistant dean, alumni affairs and continuing medical education at BUSM.
Boston University 2012-13 Keyword Initiative, RESILIENCE
Beginning in September, BU students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in a year of creative discussion and action on the theme of RESILIENCE as part of the College of Fine Arts Keyword Initiative. Each year a new keyword is selected and this is the second year of the project. Resilience is elasticity, buoyancy, […]
BU Interdisciplinary Student Team Places in Emory Global Health Competition, also Wins Audience Choice Award
Boston University was well represented at the Emory Global Health Case Competition on March 31. The team of six included a medical student, an MD/MBA student, three MBA/MPH students and a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, placed second out of a roster of 23. This was the first year that BU has participated. The team […]