BUSM Faculty Intending to Submit Shared Instrumentation Grants in 2015

 SIG Pre-submission Process The Shared Instrument Grant (SIG) program encourages applications from groups of NIH-sponsored investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems that cost at least $50,000. Types of instruments supported include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffraction systems, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and […]

BUSM Opens New Clerkship Sites in California

Boston University School of Medicine has developed an affiliation with Northern California Kaiser Permanente to offer two new clinical clerkship sites for our third-year medical students. Beginning in May 2015, 12 third-year students will begin their clerkships at Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in San Jose and Santa Clara. After an orientation with their classmates in […]

Subfreezing Temperature Preparation Tips

All faculty, staff and students are reminded and encouraged to ensure that their offices, work places and Medical Student Residence rooms are properly closed up before departure each day as we get ready for another round of severe, sub-freezing weather. Extreme temperatures can quickly destroy a heating/cooling coil or fire sprinkler line in an area […]

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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 […]