Stephen P. Christiansen, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and professor of ophthalmology and pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). In addition, Christiansen has been appointed chief of the Department of Ophthalmology at Boston Medical Center (BMC). Christiansen received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, […]
Former National Hockey League (NHL) All-Star Keith Primeau announced he is joining more than 100 former professional, college and high school athletes by committing to donate his brain upon death to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). In addition, Primeau is asking all current and retired NHL […]
David A. Harris, MD, PhD, has been named Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry for Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) effective September 1, 2009.
Harris plans to build upon the long-standing strengths of the Department of Biochemistry, hiring additional faculty, upgrading laboratory space, further developing cutting-edge research activities, and capitalizing on the translational potential of basic biochemical discoveries. He will be responsible for all academic appointments in the Department, and will provide leadership for undergraduate and graduate educational programs. Harris will also serve on the BUSM executive committee.
Richard L. Kalish, MD assistant professor in the Departments of Medicine and Family Medicine at BUSM has been named 2009 Community Clinician of the Year by his physician peers of the Suffolk District Medical Society. The Community Clinician of the Year Award was established in 1998 by the Massachusetts Medical Society to recognize a physician […]
Katya Ravid, DSc, PhD, professor of biochemistry and medicine has accepted the position of director of the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research effective March 1, 2009. Dr. Ravid is internationally known for her work in platelet biology and the definition of intracellular pathways that mediate platelet development and vascular function. She serves on a number […]
At Boston University School of Medicine 154 students anxiously awaited the results of Match Day. The annual event marks the moment in which students around the country learn which residency programs they will be attending and where they will spend the next three to five years of their lives following graduation. Within seconds of the […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has received a pledge of $10.5 million to create a Breast Cancer Research Center, including an assistant professorship and an international scholars training program, from a Boston University School of Medicine graduate who wishes to remain anonymous. This pledge represents the largest individual gift received by the School of Medicine.
Combining Eastern and Western medicine is the best way to ease post-traumatic symptoms among the Tibetan refugee monks who have come to the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights (BCRHHR) at Boston Medical Center, according to a paper co-authored by Michael Grodin, Grodin, professor of human rights, psychiatry, and community medicine at Boston […]
A new study provides insight into how a short burst in nitrite can exert lasting beneficial effects on the heart, protecting it from stress and assaults such as heart attacks. In this study, just published in Circulation Research, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have demonstrated for the first time that short elevations in circulating levels of this simple anion are sufficient to have a lasting impact on the heart by modulating its oxidation status and its protein machinery.
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, have discovered that variants in the α-endomannosidase (MANEA) gene are associated with cocaine addiction and cocaine-induced paranoia in European American and African American populations. These findings appear in the March issue of the […]