Marc Horton DMD 14, David Haluska DMD 12, and Erik Harriman DMD 14 traveled to Augusta, Maine on February 7, to participate in a lobbying event sponsored by the Maine Dental Association (MDA). The students met with officials from the MDA in the afternoon and in the evening they joined member dentists at the MDA’s […]
U.S. News & World Report ranked Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) 31st for best research medical school in the US. Up from its rank of 34th last year, BUSM tied Dartmouth and University of Alabama Medical School and ranks ahead of USC’s Keck School of Medicine, and Brown, Tufts and Georgetown medical schools. See […]
Boston University School of Medicine; Boston Medical Center, Section of Infectious Diseases; and the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories are co-sponsoring the World TB Day Symposium March 22-23 on the Boston University Medical Campus. World TB Day is officially March 24, and it celebrates the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert Koch in 1882. On March 24, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention release the latest data on global and U.S. tuberculosis epidemiology. This is the fourth year that TB investigators from the northeast have gathered for a scientific meeting to present their very latest research.
GSDM dental debaters Mohamad Kamel DMD 13, Sameet Gill DMD 14, Marc Horton DMD 14, Darshit Shah DMD 13, Dhiren Agrawal DMD 13 and Julian Camastra DMD 15 faced off against dental students from Tufts University and Harvard University at the First Annual District 1 Debate, held at Tufts University on February 25. GSDM and […]
Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health along with Boston Medical Center have found children’s academic achievement test scores not affected by intrauterine exposure to cocaine, tobacco or marijuana. However, alcohol exposure in children who had no evidence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) did lead to lower scores in math reasoning […]
Fourth-year DMD student Thomas O’Connor hopes to become an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He has had his sights set on this goal since before he entered dental school. His father, Dr. Stephen O’Connor an ER doctor in O’Connor’s hometown of Jasper, Indiana, introduced him to Drs. Matthew Monesmith and Kyley Wood, two Jasper Oral and […]
Join David Satcher, MD, PhD, 16th U.S. Surgeon General and director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute as he presents on “The Role of Health Reform in Addressing Mental Health Disparities” at the Psychiatry Grand Rounds on Thursday, March 29, 2-3 p.m., in Keefer Auditorium. Dr. Satcher’s has deep experience in improving public health policy […]
The Faculty Staff Assistance Office (FSAO) is now open on the Boston University Medical Campus. FSAO provides University employees and their family members with free and confidential counseling and referrals for personal or work-related issues. Services are provided by the FSAO director, Bonnie Jean Teitleman and by Karen Brouhard, both of whom are licensed behavioral […]
Would you like to make your presentations more effective? BUMC Toastmasters is offering a free seminar with actress and coach Amanda Good Hennessey to address common issues when making presentations. This seminar is open to everyone on the Medical Campus, you do not need to be a member of Toastmasters to attend. During this seminar […]
GSDM Professor and Director of Oral Biology Research Dr. Philip Trackman’s laboratory has taken their research on the tumor suppressor activity of the lysyl oxidase propeptide, LOX-PP, one step further, showing that LOX-PP could have potential as a therapeutic. In a paper published in early February by PLoS One, researchers show, “that the recombinant protein […]