The BUMC community is invited to a dedication and reception to celebrate recently restored historical pieces at the School of Medicine and Medical Campus. Recent improvements include the newly created picnic area on Talbot Green, a display of BUSM artifacts and artwork on the first floor of the Instructional Building, and the refurbished marble fountain […]
World renowned Vitamin D expert and BUSM professor Michael F. Holick, PhD, MD, recently returned from a trip to Brazil at the invitation of one of the country’s parliament members. During his visit, Holick spoke at a seminar where several Brazilian Parliament members and the public attended and met with the country’s Minister of Health […]
Karen H. Antman, MD, Dean, BUSM; David McAneny, MD, AOA Councilor, BUSM and Robert Lowe, MD, AOA Secretary-Treasurer, BUSM, have announced that the following students from the BUSM class of 2014 have been elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the national honor medical society organized exclusively for educational purposes. Joshua August Kirsten Lyman […]
David McAneny, MD, associate professor of surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and associate chair for clinical quality and safety at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been named vice chair of the department of surgery at BUSM and BMC. In this role, he will serve as division chief of general surgery and section […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that among obese people who had lost considerable weight, those with high insulin levels–a marker of insulin resistance in the body–were the most likely to experience better blood vessel function following the weight loss. These findings appear online in the […]
With soaring obesity rates in the U.S., the American Medical Association has classified obesity as a disease. This major shift in healthcare policy brings much needed medical attention to obese patients. However, this definition of obesity focuses on a single criterion of Body Mass Index (BMI), which includes a large group of persons with high […]
A person’s skin pigment, which determines hair color and skin tone, is influenced by the melanocortin-1 (MC1R) gene receptor. For the population’s one to two percent of redheads, a mutation in MC1R accounts for their red hair color and typical light skin. Now researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Boston University School […]
The Boston Marathon bombing brought international attention back to the devastating effects of terrorism. There were numerous victims with severe injuries that needed immediate attention. A novel study in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), presents cases from Boston-area hospitals where victims were […]
White coat ceremony highlights transformative process The 2013 White Coat Ceremony held on Talbot Green August 5 marked a threshold for the 165 members of the BUSM Class of 2017; it is the beginning of a transformative process that will take them from their current life experience to the role of healer. Keynote speaker Robert […]
Patricia Resick, PhD, ABPP, professor of psychiatry and psychology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), received the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division of Trauma Psychology Award for Lifetime Achievement in the field of Trauma Psychology in Honolulu on Aug. 2. This award recognizes a senior distinguished psychologist who has made outstanding contributions to science, […]