{"id":142279,"date":"2026-02-26T10:20:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?post_type=bu-article&p=142279"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:20:55","slug":"linda-afifi-phd-named-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month-for-march","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/news-events\/articles\/2026\/linda-afifi-phd-named-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month-for-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Afifi, PhD, Named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for March"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology Linda M. Afifi<\/a>, PhD, has been named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for March. Dr. Afifi joined the BU community in July 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her nominators say, \u201cDr. Afifi has great enthusiasm for teaching students to learn and understand anatomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe shows exceptional care to those who have willed their body to the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDr. Afifi is greatly admired and respected by fellow faculty and students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology Linda M. Afifi, PhD, has been named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for March. Dr. Afifi joined the BU community in July 2018. Her nominators say, \u201cDr. Afifi has great enthusiasm for teaching students to learn and understand anatomy. \u201cShe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":133802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"Awards & Honors","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[356,387],"bu-publication":[367],"medicine-article-category":[],"medicine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[378],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[390],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/142279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/142279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142315,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/142279\/revisions\/142315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142279"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=142279"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-article-category?post=142279"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-topic?post=142279"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=142279"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=142279"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=142279"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=142279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}