Author: Gina P Orlando

BUSM Researchers Use Goal-Oriented Therapy to Treat Diabetic Neuropathies

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and VA Boston Healthcare System (VA BHS) have found that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help relieve pain for people with painful diabetic neuropathies. The study, which is the first of its kind to examine this treatment for people with type II diabetes mellitus, is published in […]

Boston University School of Medicine Appoints New Member to Dean’s Advisory Board

Pedram Salimpour, MD, MPH, has been named a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board (DAB) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).  DAB members serve three-year-renewable terms actively participating in medical school strategic planning and external relations initiatives. DAB members are leaders in medicine, technology, business and other sectors of society. They share a passion […]

BUSM, BMC Faculty Member Receives Award for Physician Excellence

Edward Bernstein, MD, vice chair of academic affairs and professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and an emergency medicine physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been named the recipient of the 2012 Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence. Selected by a senior committee of BUSM and BMC physicians, the […]

BUSM Lecture Honors Alumni, Victim of 9/11 Tragedy

Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) will present the 11th annual Sue Kim Hanson Lecture in Immunology at noon, Friday, Nov.16, in the School of Medicine’s Keefer Auditorium. The annual lecture honors Sue Kim Hanson, MA, and PhD ’02, a former researcher in BUSM’s Pulmonary Center. Hanson, her husband and their daughter were passengers on […]

BMC Chief Elected to National Medical Association Board of Trustees

Gregory Antoine, MD, chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and associate professor of surgery and otolaryngology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) was elected to the National Medical Association (NMA) Board of Trustees. Antoine will represent Region 1, which includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, […]

New Orthopaedic Surgeon Joins BMC and BUSM Faculty

Cory M. Edgar, MD, PhD has recently joined Boston Medical Center (BMC) as an orthopaedic surgeon and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) as an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery. In addition he has been appointed as team physician for Boston University Athletics. Edgar’s area of expertise is in using stem cells in the care […]

New Chair/Chief of Family Medicine Appointed at BUSM and BMC

Brian W. Jack, MD, has been appointed Chief of Family Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). Jack was hired in 1997 as physician and Vice Chair in Family Medicine at BMC and associate professor at BUSM. In 2011, he was […]

BMC Physician Named Chief and Chair of Thoracic Surgery

Hiran Fernando, MBBS, FRCS, FACS has been named the new chief and chair of thoracic surgery at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). A cardiothoracic surgeon at BMC and associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery at BUSM, Fernando has a rich history of clinical research including being the principal investigator for […]

BUSM Professors Receive American Health Assistance Foundation Grants

Boston University School of Medicine’s (BUSM) Benjamin Wolozin, PhD, professor of pharmacology and neurology, and Matthew Nugent, PhD, professor of biochemistry, ophthalmology and biomedical engineering, have been awarded grants from the American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) to study age-related degenerative diseases. This marks the first time in more than a decade that BUSM has received […]