Francis Kim, a third year medical student at BUSM, has been named a recipient of the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation’s 2013 Leadership Award. Recipients are recognized for demonstrating outstanding non-clinical leadership skills in advocacy, community service and education. The award provides medical students, residents/fellows and early career physicians from around the country with special […]
In an essay in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Nancy Kressin, PhD, director of the Healthcare Disparities Research Unit and professor, in the section of General Internal Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, compares her own recent experience with gastroesophageal reflux disease and her cat’s vomiting and weight loss. Although […]
Angela Jackson, MD was unanimously recommended by the search committee to serve as the new associate dean for student affairs effective December 1, 2012. An accomplished medical educator with two decades of experience in teaching and training program administration, Dr. Jackson has focused on health policy, primary care education and skill development for clinical teachers. […]
Barbara Gilchrest, MD, professor and Chair Emeritus of the department of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and dermatologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been named a 2012 Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Gilchrest is among four faculty members at Boston University nominated to the NAI in 2012. […]
(Boston/Washington) – A viewpoint in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), co-authored by Elizabeth Pearce, MD, MSc, associate professor of medicine at BUSM, discusses the issue of iodine deficiency in pregnant women in the U.S. and the potential negative health implications for both mothers and their children from this deficiency. Alex Stagnaro-Green, […]
Edward Bernstein, MD, vice chair of academic affairs and professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and an emergency medicine physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been named the recipient of the 2012 Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence. Selected by a senior committee of BUSM and BMC physicians, the […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have discovered a new link between a protein in the brain and high blood pressure. Their findings are currently available online and will be published in the February 2013 issue of the journal Hypertension. For decades, scientists have debated whether the kidneys, the sympathetic nervous system, or both […]
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System (VA BHS), have published a study showing that in some cases, music may improve memory for patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The study, which is published online in the journal Neuropsychologia, was led by Nicholas Simmons-Stern, at the Center for Translational Cognitive […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have published a study identifying a better method for grading endoscopists, physicians who perform colonoscopies. Their findings were recently published online in the journal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Through screening colonoscopies, endoscopists are able to identify and remove pre-cancerous adenomas, ultimately reducing the rate […]
Lisa Norton walks briskly to her first home visit of the day, hardly slowing to update her student about the assortment of health problems afflicting her 87-year-old patient Pauline Harris, who lives in the South End. Norton, a geriatrician and a School of Medicine clinical assistant professor of geriatrics, mentions one last thing before she […]