Annual Retreat
The BU MD/PhD program organizes a student retreat every year, providing an opportunity for the entire student body to come together and discuss the year’s events. The retreat starts off with an icebreaker, followed by an address from the program directors to welcome the incoming M1 students. A keynote address, given by a prominent member of the scientific community, will discuss their career paths, research, and other topics relevant to physician scientists in training. Current students are also provided an opportunity to present their research progress through poster presentations. Finally, a series of workshops presented by program directors and MD/PhD faculty provide students opportunity to give feedback on the program as well as practice skills necessary for the career, including scientific speaking and critical literature review.
Current year retreat
Date: September 21st, 2024
Keynote speaker: Dr. Aly Elezaby, MD, PhD
Dr. Elezaby is an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology at Stanford University School of Medicine and a research scientist in the lab of Dr. Daria Mochly-Rosen. He graduated from the MD-PhD program at Boston University, with a dissertation focus on the effects of nutrient excess on mitochondrial function and oxidative stress in the heart. He completed residency training in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine fellowship at Stanford as part of the Translational Investigator Program. His current research focus is on the signaling pathways that modulate cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury, with a particular focus on regulation of metabolism and mitochondrial function. His clinical focus is on the management of inherited cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure, transplant cardiology and mechanical circulatory support.
Past retreat keynote speakers
2019 – Hao G. Nguyen, MD, PhD – Goldberg-Benioff Endowed Professorship in Cancer Biology – UCSF
2018 – Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD – David M. Rubenstein Center Chair for Pancreatic Cancer Research; Director, Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2016 – Mohit Jain, MD, PhD – Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine – UCSD
2015 – Michael Mansour, MD,PhD – Associate Professor of Medicine – Harvard
Past retreat photos
2022
2021
2019
