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 […]
Ann McKee, a codirector of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, with one of the specimens from the center’s brain bank. Photo by Vernon Doucette The youngest weren’t even old enough to drink legally—six high school football players who developed the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) before dying. Their brains […]
Researchers at Boston University and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) have determined that heavily indebted medical students choosing primary care careers will experience difficulty paying their student debt unless they consider alternative strategies to support repayment. These findings appear online in Academic Medicine, the peer-reviewed Journal of the AAMC. Most medical school graduates […]
Boston Magazine has released its annual Top Docs issue. Sixty-one BUSM faculty and BMC physicians are listed as “tops” in their respective fields, and Dr. Lisa Kachnic, professor and chair of radiation oncology, is featured on the cover of the edition mailed to subscribers. “These outstanding members of the Medical Campus illustrate the high-quality […]
The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Induction Reception and Ceremony was held Nov. 16 in Hiebert Lounge. Membership in AOA, the only national medical honor society, recognizes the highest level of excellence in scholarship, leadership, professionalism, and service. BUSM is one of the 120 chapters in medical schools throughout the U.S. This year in addition to […]
In the November 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), medical clinicians and researchers advocate for new techniques to fight drug overdoses. Alexander Walley, MD, MSc, assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine, co-authored the article with Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH, assistant professor at Northeastern University School of Law and […]
For the last decade, Avrum Spira, MD, MSc, a BUSM professor of medicine, pathology, and bioinformatics and a pulmonologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has worked to develop molecular tests that detect lung cancer early. Now, with a $13.7 million grant from the Department of Defense, he is carrying the research forward as leader of […]
Since the devastation of areas of New York and New Jersey caused by Hurricane Sandy, rescue teams from all over the country have been deployed to help. Ricky Kue, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and emergency medicine physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) is one of those […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) will present the 11th annual Sue Kim Hanson Lecture in Immunology at noon, Friday, Nov.16, in the School of Medicine’s Keefer Auditorium. The annual lecture honors Sue Kim Hanson, MA, and PhD ’02, a former researcher in BUSM’s Pulmonary Center. Hanson, her husband and their daughter were passengers on […]