Just a month into the renovations that began Monday, May 23, both the interior and exterior of the BUSM Instructional Building, also known as the L-building, are changing. Please note that pedestrian traffic has been completely re-routed around the old entrance. Demolition of the front stairs is complete. A drill rig has completed the work […]
BU President Robert Brown and School of Medicine Dean Karen Antman received notification from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) that the School of Medicine has been reaccredited for the next eight years. The LCME is the only nationally recognized accrediting body for all medical education programs in the U.S. leading to the medical […]
Community Health Programs Oral Health Promotion Director Kathy Lituri, Felicia Smith DMD 15, Thomas Horton DMD 14, Lillelenny Santana AS 2012, and Danielle Collins (a former dental hygiene student of Lituri’s) volunteered at the Living SMART Community Health Fair on June 11. The fair was held at the Perkins Community Center in Dorchester. Living SMART […]
Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, a professor of medicine and community health sciences at BUSM, has been selected as a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) International Program 2011 Awards of Excellence winner. Samet was recognized for his commitment and investment in mentoring scientists in their pursuits in patient-focused drug abuse research and treatment. Samet, who […]
Young adults with serious psychological problems are more than twice as likely as peers to use hospital emergency department services, according to a new study led by BU School of Public Health researchers. The study, published online in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, found that “serious psychological distress” was significantly associated with emergency […]
Generating a burst of contagious energy, laughter and intellectual curiosity they arrived at the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences office on June 1. Johanna, Samanta, Vincent, Joshua, Jessica, Rachael, Maria, Carlos, Jordan, Derrius and Chinamere are undergraduate students from eleven different US colleges and universities. They are spending 10 weeks on the medical campus conducting biomedical research, participating in professional development seminars, attending “science talks” and enjoying the cultural and recreational opportunities in Boston.
Efforts to identify hospital-based patient safety problems have culminated in a list of indicators known as PSIs that initially were intended to help to detect adverse events and prompt quality improvements. Now, however, PSIs are emerging as standards by which the public will be able to compare hospitals – a move that two VA Boston Healthcare System researchers, both professors at the BU School of Public Health (BUSPH), find problematic.
An ADA Evidence-Based Review (AER) workshop was held at the Dental School on June 2 and 3. The AER program is a unique opportunity which allows interested individuals to be trained in the concepts of scientific methods in dental research and study designs by the 13-15 members of the ADA Critical Review Panel (CRP). GSDM […]
Want the inside scoop on dieting? Ask BU’s Thomas Moore. The Medical Campus associate provost helped create the best diet plan going, according to US News & World Report. DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) topped 19 other diet plans in the magazine’s “Best Diets Overall” category, beating out such popular plans as Atkins, Jenny […]
Girls who followed the Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet pattern had a lower incidence of excess weight gain as measured by body mass index (BMI) over the 10-year period of their adolescence according to BUSM researchers. These findings are reported in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. Obesity is a major public […]