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Catherine Rich, MD receives the SGIM NE Regional Award for Excellence as a Clinician-Educator in General Internal Medicine
Catherine Rich, MD received The New England Regional Award for Excellence as a Clinician-Educator in General Internal Medicine. The New England Regional Award for Excellence as a Clinician-Educator in General Internal Medicine is intended to highlight outstanding Clinician-Educators in our region. The award is applicable to individuals who are working towards developing... More
Christopher Shanahan, MD, MPH, FACP receives distinguished ACP Award
Christopher Shanahan, MD, MPH, FACP received the ACP Award for Distinguished Contributions to Behavioral Medicine. This award is bestowed for distinguished contributions to the integration of behavioral medicine with traditional medicine. This award recognizes an individual who has furthered the care of patients by recognizing the importance of caring for the whole... More
Evan’s Junior Research Merit Awardees – Sarah Bagley, MD, MSC and Christine Gunn, PhD
Drs. Sarah Bagley and Christine Gunn received the 2019-2020 Evans Junior Research Merit Award. Every year the Department of Medicine makes annual awards to recognize and assist junior faculty investigators. The award provides two years of support at up to $50,000 per year for a total amount of $100,000. The funds can... More
Pablo Buitron de la Vega, MD receives the 2020 Lorraine Stanfield Student Teaching Award
Congratulations to Pablo Buitron de la Vega, MD who was awarded the annual Lorraine Stanfield Student Teaching Award. This award recognizes an outstanding GIM clinician educator demonstrating commitment and excellence in student teaching. The award reflects Lorraine's distinctive strengths, which include creating a highly supportive and challenging learning environment, modeling humanistic... More
Marc Larochelle, MD, MPH’s article “Is It Safe for Me to Go to Work?” Risk Stratification for Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic published in NEJM
Congratulations to Marc Larochelle, MD, MPH! His article: "Is It Safe for Me to Go to Work?” Risk Stratification for Workers during the Covid-19 Pandemic was published in NEJM's July 30, 2020 issue. The full article can be viewed here.
Jessica Taylor, MD – BU Distinguished Faculty for August 2020
Congratulations to Jessica Taylor, MD, who was awarded BU Distinguished Faculty for the month of August. The article featuring Jessica Taylor, MD can be viewed here.
Beyond Binary Nonsense: GIM’s Carl Streed Jr, provides a talk on TED.com
Earlier this year, experts from Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, and BU School of Public Health, joined thought leaders from across the country to participate in a special TEDxBeaconStreet event on BMC’s campus. Their talks spanned the scope of social determinants of health to the role of... More
Administrative Director Deb Paarz Honored with BU’s 2020 Perkins Award
Awardees Colin Riley, Kim Richards, Debra Paarz will be honored at a ceremony held later Congratulations to Debra Paarz A quarter-century BU veteran, Paarz has spent most of the last two decades with MED’s 120-instructor general internal medicine section, currently serving as its administrator—which now means, among other things, she says, that... More
GIM Faculty on the COVID-19 Frontlines
As the largest safety-net hospital in New England, Boston Medical Center cares for the most vulnerable and often under-served communities in Boston and is currently caring for the second highest number of COVID-19 patients in the city.Drs. James Hudspeth and Sarah Kimball of the Department’s Section of General Internal Medicine... More
BMC is home to Mass HEAL Initiative to help fight the opioid crisis
Established by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, BMC is one of the locations of the nationwide study to investigate innovative addiction treatment interventions in order to create a national model aimed at curbing the opioid crisis. Learn More