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GIM Observes International Overdose Awareness Day
In honor of International Overdose Awareness Day, members of GIM's Office-Based Addiction Treatment team and the Grayken Center for Addiction gathered with officials from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and others to plant more than 20,000 purple flags to memorialize lives lost to overdoses. The Grayken Center for Addiction Training... More
Michael Schwartz Announced as Medical Director of Inpatient Teaching Service
Hospitalist and Assistant Professor of Medicine Michael Schwartz, MD will serve as the Medical Director of the GIM Inpatient Teaching Service. Dr. Schwartz is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and completed his internal medicine (IM) residency training here at Boston Medical Center. He has a... More
Expanding the Palliative Care Team
The Palliative Care team, led by Director Henri Lee, has grown steadily over the past few years. The program now delivers care through a new home-based palliative care service that launched in February 2025, a growing outpatient clinic embedded in oncology, and a well-established inpatient consult service. In the past... More
Studying Integrative Medicine Services for Low Back Pain
Faculty in the Section of General Internal Medicine recently published the article "Nonpharmacologic Back Pain Treatment Use and Associated Patient Reported Outcomes in US-Based Integrative Medicine Clinics" in Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health. Dr. Eric Roseen, Assistant Professor and a chiropractic physician in the primary care clinic, and... More
Justin Alves Receives BUMG APP Excellence Award
Justin Alves, a clinical nurse educator with the Grayken Center for Addiction, recently received the Advanced Practice Provider Excellence Award from the Boston University Medical Group. In addition to his role at the Grayken Center for Addiction, Mr. Alves is an Assistant Professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine... More
Sarah Kimball Receives AMA Foundation Excellence in Medicine Award
On Saturday, June 7, the AMA Foundation recognized their Excellence in Medicine Award recipients. Dr. Sarah Kimball, an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Immigrant and Refugee Health Center, received the Dr. Debasish Mridha Spirit of Medicine Award. This award recognizes the work of US physicians who demonstrate... More
A Scoping Review of Youth Overdose Prevention Interventions
Clinician investigators and research staff in the Section of General Internal Medicine recently co-authored "A Scoping Review of Youth Overdose Preventions," published online ahead of print last month in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. Moriah Wiggins, BS, Avik Chatterjee, MD, MPH, and Sarah Bagley, MD, MSc, conducted this scoping review in... More
Congratulations to the GIM Recipients of the Annual School Awards!
Congratulations to the GIM faculty members who received Annual BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Awards! Christine Phillips, MD received the Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award acknowledges scholars, teachers, or innovators in medical student education. Award recipients receive positive teaching evaluations and demonstrate leadership in... More
Anna Goldman Honored with Boston Climate Leader Award
Congratulations to Anna Goldman, MD, a primary care physician in the Section of General Internal Medicine and the Medical Director of Sustainability for Boston Medical Center (BMC), for earning the Boston Climate Leader Award from the City of Boston's Environment Department. She received the Boston Bright Future Award, recognizing those... More
GIM Hosts Inaugural Research Staff Retreat
GIM hosted its inaugural Research Staff Retreat last month! The half-day retreat brought together research staff from different projects across the Section. After opening remarks by Marc Larochelle, the Associate Chief of Research, attendees heard from a panel of experienced research professionals -- Jacqueline German, Alissa Cruz, Carly Bridden, and... More