{"id":144948,"date":"2026-06-25T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=144948"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:32:59","slug":"gretchen-gignac-md-named-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month-for-july","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/news-events\/articles\/2026\/gretchen-gignac-md-named-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month-for-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Gignac, MD, Named Distinguished Faculty of the Month\u00a0for July"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Awards &amp; Honors<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <strong>Gretchen Gignac, MD, Na<\/strong>m<strong>ed <\/strong><br><strong>Distinguished Faculty of the Month\u00a0for July<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">June 25, 2026<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2026\/06\/Gignac_Gretchen-30_2x3.jpg\" alt=\"Head and shoulders of woman wearing black top, eyeglasses, hair pulled behind her head, smiling\" class=\"wp-image-144949\" width=\"180\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2026\/06\/Gignac_Gretchen-30_2x3.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2026\/06\/Gignac_Gretchen-30_2x3-240x360.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2026\/06\/Gignac_Gretchen-30_2x3-341x512.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption>Gretchen Gignac, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine\/Hematology &amp; Medical Oncology <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/Gretchen.Gignac\">Gretchen Gignac<\/a>, MD, has been named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Gignac is a medical oncologist at Boston Medical Center and an instructor in the hospital\u2019s Hematology and Oncology Fellowship program. She joined our community in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her nominators say, \u201cDr. Gignac is approachable and accessible to all of her colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe welcomes the opportunities to engage in teaching and mentorship, and she\u2019s highly committed to her patients and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot only is she an excellent physician, her bedside manner is an A+!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Congratulations!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2025\/05\/FacOTM-logo.png\" alt=\"Red and white logo for distinguished faculty of the month\" class=\"wp-image-133802\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/05\/FacOTM-logo.png 489w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/05\/FacOTM-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/05\/FacOTM-logo-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/05\/FacOTM-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2025\/05\/FacOTM-logo-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine\/Hematology &amp; Medical Oncology Gretchen Gignac, MD, has been named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for July. Dr. Gignac is a medical oncologist at Boston Medical Center and an instructor in the hospital\u2019s Hematology and Oncology Fellowship program. She joined our community [&hellip;]<\/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":[378,441],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/144948"}],"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=144948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/144948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145165,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/144948\/revisions\/145165"}],"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=144948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144948"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=144948"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-article-category?post=144948"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-topic?post=144948"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=144948"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=144948"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=144948"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=144948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}