On Wednesday, Oct. 13, the Academies of Advisors Program at the BUSM held its first annual Dodgeball Tournament. The Rebecca Lee Crumpler Academy won this inaugural event, defeating the Louis W. Sullivan Academy three games to two in the final round of play. The Crumpler Academy team, also known as the “Trailblazers” (aka the Crumpinators), […]
BUSM Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs John Wiecha, MD, MPH, from the Department of Family Medicine, has received a $247,654.00 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to acquire the Laerdale ™ simulation mannequin. The mannequin, which is programmed to simulate a patient experiencing an emergency medical situation, will be used by professors […]
Two BUSM faculty members have each been awarded grants from the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) to study the effectiveness of integrative medicine in underserved patients. Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the department of family medicine, has been awarded a 5-year K07 training grant to investigate the use of […]
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) report that physicians who use an automated, electronic medical record (EMR) tracking system to follow-up on patients with an abnormal Pap test could increase the number of women who achieved diagnostic resolution and have women achieve resolution in less time than using traditional methods. These findings appear […]
Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) have resulted in a growing number of injured soldiers who have been evacuated to the United States for comprehensive care related to both physical and psychological trauma, most commonly pain and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). These disorders tend to occur together and result in high levels of distressing symptoms. […]
BUSM researchers have been awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) phase 1 award to develop and test a newly designed fluorescent lamp that is capable of producing vitamin D in the skin. Dr. Michael Holick, a professor of medicine, physiology and biophysics at BUSM and director of the General Clinical Research Unit, the Bone […]
BUSM Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs John Wiecha, MD, MPH, in the Department of Family Medicine, has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Challenge grant from the National Library of Medicine. The grant, valued at more than $950,000 will fund a study to provide health education to African-American […]
This seminar introduces new users including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and all interested others, to the available instruments and services available at the Flow Cytometry Core Facility. The course will also provide some training in basic techniques. An important educational goal of the seminar is to increase the comfort level of potential users of flow […]
Join Dirkje S. Postma, MD, PhD, Professor of Pulmonary Diseases in the Department of Pulmonology at the University Hospital Groningen in Groningen, The Netherlands on Tuesday, Sept. 14th, 2010 in BUSM R-309 from 9:00-10:00 a.m. as she discusses “A link between epidemiology, animal and in vitro studies and genetics: asthma and COPD. Dr. Postma leads […]
Two first year Boston University Medical School students spent this summer as Betty Lea Stone-American Cancer Society Research Fellows. Derek Yecies studied a potential cancer treatment drug at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Matthew Cohen studied how cancer resists drugs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The cancer treatment drug Yecies researched targets a protein called […]