Want the inside scoop on dieting? Ask BU’s Thomas Moore. The Medical Campus associate provost helped create the best diet plan going, according to US News & World Report. DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) topped 19 other diet plans in the magazine’s “Best Diets Overall” category, beating out such popular plans as Atkins, Jenny Craig, and Slim-Fast.
A significant milestone has been reached at the new Student Residence — the topping off ceremony marking the completion of the steel erection phase was held on Friday, May 13. The crane is now no longer required and is down. In addition the top track layout for the wall studs on the second and third floors has been completed.
Significant progress has been made at the new student residence on Albany Street. Many phases of the construction are now nearing completion including:
* First and second floor slabs – completed!
* Steel framing – complete by May 13!
* Crane work – complete by May 13!
Despite the rainy weather of April, progress at the student residence at 815 Albany Street on the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) continues. The first floor steel work that began on April 11 will be completed by April 22. In addition, both the first and second floor slab work is expected to begin the week […]
April traditionally brings showers, but more importantly this year it marks the achievement of several milestones in the construction of the new student residence at 815 Albany Street on the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC).
With a countdown from Dean Antman to the stroke of noon, members of the BUSM class of 2011 excitedly stepped forward to receive their Match Day letters from faculty and administrators. With 161 BUSM students in the match this year, 33 of them will be staying on campus for residency at Boston Medical Center, others are heading across the country from New England to California and Canada. Forty-five percent of the class is pursuing internal medicine, pediatrics and family medicine.
Howard C. Bauchner, M.D., from Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health, will become the next JAMA Editor-in-Chief on July 1, 2011, according to Michael D. Maves, M.D., the executive vice president and chief executive officer of the American Medical Association. Dr. Bauchner will be the 16th editor in the journal’s 127-year history.
Neither snow, sleet or rain can stop the construction work on the student residence at 815 Albany Street on the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC).
Rafael Ortega, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, will serve as Associate Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs as of February 1, 2011. Dr. Ortega has been an active member of the BUMC community for 25 years. He joined BUSM as Anesthesiology Medical Student Coordinator in 1986 and in 2007 was named Professor of Anesthesiology. He has been Vice Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology since 1998.
Armed with a five-year, $2.8 million federal grant, School of Medicine researchers are hoping to stem HIV infection and transmission among mentally ill people engaged in risky behaviors such as needle sharing and unprotected sex.
Applying a technique called motivational interviewing (MI), the BU team, from the Mental Health Counseling and Behavioral Medicine Program (MHCBM), will recruit and counsel severely mentally ill adults who want to protect themselves from HIV or who are already infected but don’t want to pass the disease to others. Sometimes homeless, these people lack the confidence, self-control, and communication skills to change their behavior. By tailoring sessions to the individual, MI counselors give people unsparing information about the potential price of their risky behavior and help them build skills to change that behavior, says Stephen Brady, a MED associate professor of psychiatry and graduate medical sciences and MHCBM director. The study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, will include 308 volunteers and will compare brief MI-based prevention treatment with what clinicians call “care as usual.”