Denise Sloan (r) receiving Lauffer Award Denise M. Sloan, PhD, professor of psychiatry and Senior Clinician Investigator, Behavioral Science Division, National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System, has received the Robert Laufer, PhD Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. The award is given to an individual […]
Joseph Rencic The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Professor of Medicine Joseph Rencic, MD, has been named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for October. A member of the BU community since June 2019, Rencic is director of clinical reasoning education, co-course director of Doctoring 2, and a member of the Academy of […]
Julia Huntsman The Dean’s Office is pleased to announce that Julia Huntsman has been named Distinguished Staff of the Month for October. The director of the proposal development office joined our community in September 2019. Her nominators say, “Julia goes above and beyond to help faculty submit grant proposals. “She is the consummate professional and […]
“Our goal is to increase physician/nurse collaboration by helping medical students understand the role of nursing and the skills that nurses bring to healthcare,” says Cecilia McVey, MHA, RN, FAAN, associate director of nursing and patient care services at VA Boston Healthcare. Vascular Access Nurse Kassidy Dias, RN, gently tapped her forefinger on the blue […]
Stroke related to large vessel occlusion (LVO) is a leading cause of disability and death worldwide. Endovascular therapy (minimally invasive procedures like catheterization done inside the blood vessels) has transformed the management of these patients. In 2015, several randomized trials showed the benefit of endovascular therapy compared with medical management in reducing disability in some […]
Genetic prion disease generally manifests with cognitive difficulties, poor muscle control and abrupt jerking movements of muscle groups and/or entire limbs. The three major phenotypes of genetic prion disease are genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (gCJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) syndrome. The most common cause of inherited prion diseases is the E200K mutation of […]
Individuals who display exceptional longevity provide evidence that humans can live longer, healthier lives. Centenarians (greater than 100 years of age) provide a unique lens through which to study longevity and healthy aging as they have the capacity to delay or escape aging-related diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer’s disease, while markedly avoiding […]
Emelia Benjamin Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, will be named the Jay and Louise Coffman Professor of Vascular Medicine effective Oct. 1. A professor of medicine at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at BU School of Public Health, Benjamin has been a Framingham Study investigator since 1988 and a […]
The failure to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia in the elderly, at an early stage of molecular pathology is considered a major reason why treatments fail in clinical trials. Previous research to molecularly diagnose Alzheimer’s disease yielded “A/T/N” central biomarkers based on the measurements of proteins, β-amyloid (“A”) and tau (“T”), […]
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Kirsten Austad, MD, MPH, and Nick Bosch, MD, MSc, will transition from associate directors to co-directors of The Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Science (CIIS), effective Oct.1, 2024. Kathryn Fantasia, MD, will serve in the new role of education director, and Kathryn Fantasia Kayla Jones […]