In her introduction to the Feb. 25 webinar, “Women’s Health: Research Between Bench and Bedside,” BUMC Provost and Dean, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Karen Antman, MD, noted that, historically, women have been underrepresented in health studies, including animal studies that only used males and studies that excluded women of childbearing age. “Research has […]
Alumni Medical Library staff members Katie Sweeney, Kristen Sheridan and Dominique Couturier with the Little Free Library at the Wellness Fair. The Alumni Medical Library is a modern medical library. Library holdings include extensive electronic collections comprising 3,600+ current journals, 20,000+ e-books, hundreds of databases and 50+ quality-filtered subject guides. Additionally, library users have access […]
The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Medicine/HemOnc Eric Marks, MD, has been named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for March. Dr. Marks joined the BU community in 2020 and has been very active in the MD program curriculum. Since 2022, he has been the PISCEs Foundations 3 Module Director (in […]
The Dean’s Office is pleased to announce that Nicholas Sims, MBA, has been named Distinguished Staff of the Month for March. The director of development, advancement services, joined the BU community in 2013. His nominators say, “Nick is an indispensable member of the development office and the school, furthering our fundraising efforts. “He has a […]
Fifth-year MD/PhD student Kristen Segars has knitted hundreds of items in the three years since she joined a Medical Campus knitting club. Her palette tends toward bright colors like the explosion of patterns and color in the knit dress she hung at the 2023 Art Days, an annual two-day exhibition of student, faculty and staff […]
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) recently renewed the contract for the iconic Framingham Heart Study (FHS), the source of many of the landmark discoveries on heart disease and stroke that led to lifestyle changes and medications that extended our lifespan. The six-year contract covers operation and research adding to the study’s 77 […]
Wendy Kuohung, MD, associate professor of obstetrics & gynecology at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has been awarded a two-year, Discovery Research Grant from March of Dimes. The $200,000 award will fund her research “APOL1 variant-overexpressing cell lines in compound screening for preeclampsia drug discovery.” Preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy complication characterized […]
Anna Belkina The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Flow Cytometry Core Anna Belkina, MD, PhD, has been named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for February. Belkina received her PhD in molecular medicine from the school of medicine in 2012 and then […]
Raymond Nicks The Dean’s Office is pleased to announce that Raymond Nicks, MS, has been named Distinguished Staff of the Month for February. A research fellow in the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Ray joined the BU community in 2016. His nominators say, “Ray has stepped into many leadership roles, going far above […]
Medical students, faculty and staff reminded that individuals can affect meaningful change.