By amcbrier October 2nd, 2024 in Awards & Honors, Faculty Affairs, Featured
Joseph Rencic
The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Professor of Medicine Joseph Rencic, MD, has been named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for October.
A member of the BU community since June 2019, Rencic is director of clinical reasoning education, co-course director of Doctoring 2, and a member of... More
By amcbrier October 2nd, 2024 in Awards & Honors, Featured
Julia Huntsman
The Dean’s Office is pleased to announce that Julia Huntsman has been named Distinguished Staff of the Month for October.
The director of the proposal development office joined our community in September 2019.
Her nominators say, “Julia goes above and beyond to help faculty submit grant proposals.
“She is the consummate professional... More
By amcbrier September 27th, 2024 in Education, Featured, Student Activities
“Our goal is to increase physician/nurse collaboration by helping medical students understand the role of nursing and the skills that nurses bring to healthcare,” says Cecilia McVey, MHA, RN, FAAN, associate director of nursing and patient care services at VA Boston Healthcare.
Vascular Access Nurse Kassidy Dias, RN, gently tapped her... More
By amcbrier September 27th, 2024 in Research
Stroke related to large vessel occlusion (LVO) is a leading cause of disability and death worldwide. Endovascular therapy (minimally invasive procedures like catheterization done inside the blood vessels) has transformed the management of these patients. In 2015, several randomized trials showed the benefit of endovascular therapy compared with medical management... More
By amcbrier September 27th, 2024 in Research
Genetic prion disease generally manifests with cognitive difficulties, poor muscle control and abrupt jerking movements of muscle groups and/or entire limbs. The three major phenotypes of genetic prion disease are genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (gCJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) syndrome. The most common cause of inherited prion diseases... More
By amcbrier September 26th, 2024 in Research
Individuals who display exceptional longevity provide evidence that humans can live longer, healthier lives. Centenarians (greater than 100 years of age) provide a unique lens through which to study longevity and healthy aging as they have the capacity to delay or escape aging-related diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and... More
By amcbrier September 26th, 2024 in Awards & Honors, Faculty Affairs, Featured
Emelia Benjamin
Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, will be named the Jay and Louise Coffman Professor of Vascular Medicine effective Oct. 1. A professor of medicine at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and professor of epidemiology at BU School of Public Health, Benjamin has been a Framingham Study investigator... More
By amcbrier September 26th, 2024 in Research
The failure to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia in the elderly, at an early stage of molecular pathology is considered a major reason why treatments fail in clinical trials. Previous research to molecularly diagnose Alzheimer’s disease yielded “A/T/N” central biomarkers based on the measurements of proteins, More
By amcbrier September 26th, 2024 in Announcements, Featured, Research
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Kirsten Austad, MD, MPH, and Nick Bosch, MD, MSc, will transition from associate directors to co-directors of The Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Science (CIIS), effective Oct.1, 2024. Kathryn Fantasia, MD, will serve in the new role of education director, More
By amcbrier September 26th, 2024 in Research
Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) uses hundreds of millions, sometimes billions, of data points to train itself to produce realistic and innovative outputs that can mimic human-created content. Its applications include personalized recommendations for online shoppers, creating audio and visual content and accelerating engineering design. In healthcare, possible genAI uses include... More