{"id":117218,"date":"2023-11-01T15:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=117218"},"modified":"2023-11-01T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:37:15","slug":"kitt-shaffer-md-phd-named-novembers-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2023\/11\/01\/kitt-shaffer-md-phd-named-novembers-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitt Shaffer, MD, PhD, Named November\u2019s Distinguished Faculty of the Month\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/10\/Shaffer-e1698168793255.jpg\" alt=\"Woman with long blond wavy\/curly hair, frameless eyeglasses, wearing striped purple top and multicolored pearl necklace, smiling\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-117219\" width=\"200\" height=\"194\" \/>The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Professor of Radiology, Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology Kitt Shaffer, MD, PhD, has been named November\u2019s Distinguished Faculty of the Month.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shaffer joined our community in 2008. She received her BA in biology from Kansas State University, MD from Tufts University School of Medicine and PhD in anatomy from the University of Kansas. She then completed her internship in medicine and surgery at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Wellesley, Massachusetts; residency in diagnostic radiology at what was then New England Medical Center (now Tufts Medical Center), Boston; and fellowship in thoracic radiology at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Her nominators say Dr. Shaffer is \u201can excellent educator in multiple courses: PRISM, DRx and PISCES. She has been dedicated to students for decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer in-class, active learning, pass-the-pointer teaching strategy engages learners in the process of interpreting imaging, developing real-world skills critical to future practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Shaffer\u2019s creative utilization of website technology has allowed her to create numerous, high-quality learning modules that have educated multitudes of our healthcare professions students!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Shaffer is kind, considerate and humorous. She is outstanding!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2022\/11\/DistinguishedFaculty_Updated_2022-e1669225006593.png\" alt=\"Graphic image of red and white badge for distinguished faculty from Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-109094\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nominators say, &#8220;Dr. Shaffer is \u201can excellent educator in multiple courses&#8230; She has been dedicated to students for decades.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,146,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=117218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117431,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117218\/revisions\/117431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}