Event showcased the work of 84 students across all class years.
December 2024 Faculty Promotions Congratulations to the following Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion. Associate Professor Bang-Bon Koo, PhD, Anatomy & Neurobiology, specializes in developing, validating and translating novel neuroimaging biomarkers and informatics approaches to investigate normal and pathological brain states. His current research focuses on examining brain […]
Congratulations to the following Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion. Associate Professor Donald Hess, MD, Surgery, is a leader in bariatric surgery, quality improvement and resident education. He has been the chief of bariatric surgery since 2004 during which he has participated in many university research initiatives, including Dr. […]
Congratulations to the following Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion. Professor Mark Conrad, MD, MMSc, Surgery, is a vascular surgeon who studies aortic aneurysm repair, specifically the endovascular management of acute type B aortic dissection and the long-term anatomic response after treatment. He published one of the first series […]
A new study from researchers at the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease and CTE Center is helping solve the mystery as to why the brain shrinks in a unique pattern, known as atrophy, in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Published in Acta Neuropathologica, this research provides novel evidence that cumulative repetitive head impacts are driving the specific […]
Nearly 2 million Americans currently reside in jails or prisons, and another 4 million are involved in the criminal legal system under forms of community supervision such as parole and probation. There is a link between incarceration and chronic health issues; and the population involved in the U.S. justice system faces significant chronic health conditions, […]
Sarcoidosis is a multi-systemic disease of unknown etiology with a clinical presentation ranging from asymptomatic disease to organ failure. While some patients with sarcoidosis have spontaneous disease remission, others may require treatment for symptom management, organ involvement, and/or risk reduction of disease progression. Data on sarcoidosis treatment in the U.S. is limited and inconsistent, with […]
Second-year student Aryan Wadhwa (second from left) and first-year student Giulio Cataldo (middle) lead cooking class for medical students For the first half of his life, Aryan Wadhwa lived in Toronto, Canada. Then, his family moved to Austin, Texas, which bills itself as the live music capital of the world and touts its barbecue and […]
The prevalence of armed conflicts, terrorist attacks and industrial accidents necessitates clinician understanding of blast injuries in both civilian and military settings. Blast injuries are a complex form of trauma, resulting from the explosive release of energy. The severity and types of injury depend on the proximity to the blast, blast pressure and the presence […]
In the U.S., atrial fibrillation (AF), a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat in the upper chambers of the heart, affects up to one in three people in their lifetime. Significant complications associated with this condition include ischemic stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, chronic kidney disease, dementia and mortality. In a new review article […]