Profs from MED, CAS, and SMG honored for passion, scholarly work Hui Feng spends a lot of time staring through zebra fish. Through because these vertebrates, which have a great deal of genetics in common with humans, are transparent. In fact, one particular breed, called Casper—after the Friendly Ghost—is so phantasmal that Feng says that […]
Boston University School of Medicine fourth-year student Esther Han was awarded the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation’s Physicians of Tomorrow Award and received a $10,000 tuition-assistance scholarship. Han worked as a Senior Health Care Analyst at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in Washington D.C., focusing on promoting culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services, health care quality […]
Centers bracing for cuts, layoffs as NIH budget slashed No one knows the ultimate toll that federal sequestration will take on the Boston University Medical Campus. But its research centers have already seen cuts of up to 100 percent for fiscal 2013, necessitating layoffs and a renewed, urgent push to secure nongovernment funding sources. Research […]
Rachel L. Flynn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and Medicine, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology, and a member of The Cancer Center, was awarded a $50,000 grant for the coming year from the FOSTER (Fighting Osteosarcoma Through Everyday Research) Foundation. Dr. Flynn was recruited to BU from the […]
The Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) honored Dr. Tsuneya Ikezu, Professor of Pharmacology and Neurology, last week for his continued efforts in Alzheimer’s disease research. AAQI is a national grassroots charity that raises awareness and funds research through the donation and sale of small art quilts. Marge Farquharson and Dawn Forde, AAQI representatives, visited the […]
Bringing Intention, Attention, and Reflection to Clinical Practice Prescribing clinicians, including doctors of medicine, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, are invited to take part in the Resilience and Mindfulness Program, which will address the stress associated with practicing medicine in today’s health care environment. The course is designed to enhance clinicians’ satisfaction with their work […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center’s (BMC) Anand Devaiah, MD, FACS, has co-authored a new textbook, “Otology and Neurotology: Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. “This book is an invaluable reference for residents, fellows, allied health professionals, comprehensive otolaryngologists, otologists, neurologists, and skull base surgeons,” said Dr. Devaiah. “Otology and Neurotology” […]
In a first of its kind study, researchers from the Slone Epidemiology Center (SEC) at Boston University (BU) found that African-American women who were overweight or obese had a greater risk of delayed conception and infertility when compared with women who were of normal weight. In addition, women who had larger waist circumferences and greater […]
In an article published in this month’s issue of Pediatrics In Review, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) stress the importance of physicians recognizing that many mothers use herbal supplements while breastfeeding in order to make accurate health assessments for both mother and child. In the US, no existing regulatory guidelines set a […]
Vincent Falanga, MD, FACP, has been appointed the Barbara A. Gilchrest Professor of Dermatology as well as the director and vice chair of research in the department of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) effective July 1. He also is a professor of biochemistry and the director of the Dermatology Residency Program and […]