{"id":117864,"date":"2023-12-01T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=117864"},"modified":"2023-12-01T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:25:30","slug":"andrea-merrill-md-named-decembers-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2023\/12\/01\/andrea-merrill-md-named-decembers-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Merrill, MD, Named December\u2019s Distinguished Faculty of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/11\/Merrill_Andrea-scaled-e1700085384787.jpg\" alt=\"woman with long straight dark hair past shoulders wearing deep purple blue shirt smiling\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-117865\" width=\"225\" height=\"274\" \/>The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Surgery <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/Andrea.Merrill\">Andrea Merrill<\/a>, MD, has been named December\u2019s Distinguished Faculty of the Month.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A member of the BUMC community since September 2020, Merrill completed her BA and MD degrees at Tufts University, a general surgery residency and research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in surgical oncology at The Ohio State University. She is an attending general surgeon at Boston Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Her nominators say, \u201cDr. Merrill truly wants to see her mentees flourish. As a medical student, there are a rare few mentors who will not only take the time to mentor you but will actively challenge you to discover new and different things. Especially for a student so early in my medical career, having a mentor who sought out opportunities on my behalf was incredibly meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Merrill possesses the unique combination of enthusiasm and generosity that makes her an outstanding mentor. I have worked with many faculty during my time here and Dr. Merrill is in a class of her own. Her passion in mentoring medical students and teaching is unmatched, and she has embodied the school and hospital\u2019s core values by creating a warm, welcoming environment for students to thrive in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDr. Merrill is inspirational!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2022\/11\/DistinguishedFaculty_Updated_2022-150x150.png\" alt=\"Graphic image of red and white badge for distinguished faculty from Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-109094 alignleft\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nominators say, \u201cDr. Merrill possesses the unique combination of enthusiasm and generosity that makes her an outstanding mentor&#8230;Dr. Merrill is inspirational!&#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\/117864"}],"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=117864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117866,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117864\/revisions\/117866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}