The 2011 Massachusetts Operation Stand Down was held on August 26 and 27, at the IBEW 103 in Dorchester. GSDM, under the leadership of CHP Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri, has volunteered at this event for several years running, but this year they collaborated with Dr. Al Filzer and Healthcare for the Homeless to provide the best services possible to the homeless veterans in attendance. The group screened 143 veterans over the course of the two-day event and provided denture cleaning and referrals for oral health issues when needed.
BUSM Professor Aubrey Milunsky, MD, DSc, has penned a book focused on new DNA tests that have dramatically expanded the ability to avoid, prevent, diagnose, predict and treat many genetic disorders. He recounts the lessons learned from many families who benefitted from new advances in genetics, or could have, if they had only known. The […]
The Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) established the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) in January 2011. OPAs main objective is to coordinate non-research related training for postdocs and to provide opportunities to develop areas of professional development. The office strives to assist postdocs in their careers and to help improve their job satisfaction.
Deborah Anderson, PhD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and microbiology at BUSM is co-leading a new study funded by a five-year $13.3 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Anderson will investigate the vaginal use of human monoclonal antibodies manufactured transiently in tobacco plants (called “plantibodies”) to prevent sexually transmitted […]
Boston University will ask the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs later this month for permission to conduct lower-level biosafety research in its National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), located on the BU Medical Campus in the South End.
Four new videos complete with interviews of students, faculty, staff, and researchers are available for viewing on the GSDM website. The videos were designed to give potential applicants a taste of the excellent educational experience available at GSDM, but are fun for everyone to watch. Keep an eye out for appearances by your friends, teachers, […]
President Obama’s father was an alcoholic whose drunken driving killed a friend and put the elder Obama in the hospital with two broken legs. That unfortunate bit of history may help explain the White House’s interest in addiction, which includes honoring BU addiction expert Daniel Alford with a visit there on August 5. Alford (SPH’86, […]
Data can seem distant and impersonal to students until those numbers represent African villagers killed by parasitic worms, or the levels of mercury found in fish bought at a Boston supermarket. These actual examples helped underscore the vivid reality of public health to students participating in Boston University’s Upward Bound Math Science (UBMS) program. For […]
Three students recently went above and beyond to fulfill their externship community outreach requirement. The students—Sayed Al-Mousawi DMD 12, Amy Mann DMD 12, and Vera Chernomordik DMD 12—attended an outreach event in East Boston held in the Shaw’s parking lot. The event included volunteers from Boston University School of Medicine, The Family Van, and the Dana Farber […]
Returning from a stimulating field trip to the Pfizer’s Research Technology Center in Cambridge, there was enough time to go back to the lab to finish experiments. In five days Johanna, Samanta, Vincent, Joshua, Chino, Jessica, Rachael, Maria, Derrius, Carlos and Jordan will present the results of an independent research project to an appreciative audience.