BUSM’s Emelia Benjamin to Receive AHA’s Paul Dudley White Award

Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, professor of Medicine at BUSM, professor of Epidemiology at BU School of Public Health, co-Principal Investigator of the Framingham Heart Study and attending cardiologist at Boston Medical Center, has been selected as the recipient of the prestigious 2015 American Heart Association (AHA) Paul Dudley White Award. The award, named in […]

BUSM Welcomes New Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery

Scott Duncan, MD, MPH, MBA, has been appointed chair of the department of orthopaedic surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and chief of orthopaedic surgery at Boston Medical Center (BMC), effective Jan. 1, 2015. Duncan comes to BUSM/BMC from Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he served as system chairman of […]

The Neglected Pathway: Cell-Associated HIV Mucosal Transmission

Boston University School of Medicine’s Dr. Deborah Anderson and her colleagues are challenging dogma about the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Most research has focused on infection by free viral particles, while this group proposes that HIV is also transmitted by infected cells. While inside cells, HIV is protected from antibodies […]

Boston Medical Center and Tufts Medical Center Eye Partnership

Med schools would remain separate, safety-net hospital would stay in place With more than 870,000 patient visits last year and more than 4,500 full-time staff, Boston Medical Center is the largest safety-net hospital in New England. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky Boston Medical Center, Boston’s “safety-net hospital” and the primary teaching hospital for the BU School […]

Med Students Contend for Top Gingerbread House Honors

With noisy excitement, amazing creativity and good-natured competition, 20 teams of first- and second-year BUSM students vied for top honors in the Gingerbread House Wars. Sponsored by the Safford Academy of Advisors and the BUSM Alumni Association, the competition resulted in traditional snow-covered houses, a pirate ship, Fenway Park, a castle, Boston Public Garden, a […]

Leadership in Healthcare: A Conversation with Former Governor Michael Dukakis

The BU Advocacy Training Program presents December Advocacy Grand Rounds, Leadership in Healthcare: A Conversation with Former Governor Michael Dukakis. Governor Dukakis, Massachusetts’ longest serving governor and former Democratic Presidential candidate, has lectured extensively on healthcare policy and reform. Come hear about the changing landscape of healthcare in the US. Where: BUSM Instructional Building, L-303 […]

Training Medical Professionals to Teach

New online program now open for registration Many medical students dream of being able to teach one day, but the intensive rigors of their curriculum leave them little time to acquire the skills that would prepare them to do so. The same is often true for doctors and nurses who have developed areas of expertise […]