Darrell Kotton, Gustavo Mostoslavsky, and George Murphy roll up their sleeves and proudly display small oval marks on their forearms. Biopsies from which the medical researchers harvested their own skin cells to create—well, actually the sky may be the limit. “Pretty much all the biology books are wrong now,” says Murphy, a School of Medicine […]
Nadia Krasner, a PhD student in the Graduate Program in Medical Nutrition Sciences, has been selected to receive a $5,000 fellowship through the American Society of Nutrition. The award recognizes Ms. Krasner’s excellence in her proposed project Does GLP-1 Mediated Activation of AMPK have an Anti-Inflammatory Effect in Vascular Endothelium. The grant, sponsored by Pfizer, […]
Nominated by their department chairs 25 junior faculty members from the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) participated in the Emerging Leaders Forum. The two-day event, organized by the BUMC Faculty Affairs Office under the leadership of Mya Mangawang, PhD, assistant provost for Faculty Affairs, focused on exploring and developing the characteristics of highly effective leaders. The faculty participants were nominated by their Chairs based on their record of effectiveness, innovation, reliability and capacity to energize and motivate others.
Recently three fourth-year DMD students from GSDM, Ali Mahin Arastu, Gulia Muca, and Maria Honorado, traveled to Rio San Juan, Nicaragua with the San Juan Rio Relief Organization to bring oral health outreach to the poverty-stricken region. Learn what their experience was like from this collection of videos that they filmed during the trip: Clinic […]
Black toddlers are five times less likely than their white counterparts to receive early-intervention services for developmental delays — a disparity that should be addressed by clinicians working proactively with families, according to a study led by a BU School of Public Health researcher. In a study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral […]
With a countdown from Dean Antman to the stroke of noon, members of the BUSM class of 2011 excitedly stepped forward to receive their Match Day letters from faculty and administrators. With 161 BUSM students in the match this year, 33 of them will be staying on campus for residency at Boston Medical Center, others are heading across the country from New England to California and Canada. Forty-five percent of the class is pursuing internal medicine, pediatrics and family medicine.
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Slone Epidemiology Center have found that African-American women who live in more densely populated urban areas gain less weight than those in more sprawling auto-oriented areas. The results, which appear in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, were based on data collected in […]
Nearly half of underage drinkers prefer liquor to beer and are more likely to binge drink, drink and drive, and engage in risky sexual behaviors, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher. “We know a lot about the consumption of alcohol beverages among youth in terms of […]
For three weeks in a row each year the children of Teacapan—a small fishing village in Mexico—receive dental care from Project Stretch volunteers. The other 49 weeks of the year dental care is largely unavailable to them. GSDM volunteers, under the leadership of Assistant Director of Extramural Programs Kathy Held, have participated in a week-long […]
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine and Director of the Primary Care Training Program at BUSM Angela Jackson, MD was appointed by the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, to the Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry. The committee advises and makes recommendations to […]