The Center for Cross Organ Vascular Pathology (COVP)

The Department of Medicine and Section of Nephrology are delighted to announce the creation of the Center for Cross Organ Vascular Pathology (COVP), directed by Dr. Vipul Chitalia. The COVP will focus on unlocking the underpinnings of vascular pathophysiology in different organs (peripheral vasculature, heart, kidneys, lungs, brain, and eye, and others) in patients suffering from systemic diseases such as chronic kidney disease and cancer. Vascular disease can originate from and cause injury to a wide range of organs and conditions, including uremia- or malignancy-associated peripheral and central vascular diseases; hemodialysis vascular access dysfunction; peritoneal dialysis membrane failure; uremic calcemic arteriolopathy (calciphylaxis); and ocular pathologies.

Collaborating with a rich network of local, national and international researchers and clinicians including surgeons, radiologists and biomedical engineers from academia and industry, COVP has a tripartite structure: Basic Science, Translational/Clinical science, and Biomedical Engineering/Machine Learning. The COVP will build a unique infrastructure within the Department of Medicine to interrogate pre-clinical models and establish a biorepository that will systematically gather tissue and biosamples relevant for cross-organ pathologies.

Dr. Chitalia’s experience in multidisciplinary and highly translational research make him uniquely qualified to create this Center and resource. We expect the COVP to be a major locus of collaborative research throughout Boston University and beyond.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Chitalia on this leadership position.

Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS Recipient of the 2022 Sexual Medicine Research Award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS for being one of four recepiets of the 2022 Sexual Medicine Research Award. Jai Marathe, MBBS, MS and her team develop products that prevent both pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STI), including HIV-1. The monoclonal antibody (mAb), Human Contraception Antibody (HCA), rapidly agglutinates and immobilizes sperm and anti-HIV and anti-Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) mAbs neutralize HIV-1 and HSV-2. They will evaluate the feasibility of delivering these antibodies using sexual lubricants and bioadhesive gels for on-demand non-hormonal male contraception and STI protection.

Omar Siddiqi, MD named Educator of the Year

Congratulations to Dr. Omar Siddiqi, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Cardiovascular Medicine, to be one of four people to be named Educator of the Year. To read more about Dr. Siddiqi outstanding work, click here.

Robert Dawson Evans Distinguished Professors of Medicine Named

Congratulations to this year's Robert Dawson Evans Distinguished Professors of Medicine! The goal of this honorific designation is to acknowledge faculty at the Professorial rank whose academic achievements have had an exceptional impact on their field in research, education, or clinical care. The 2021 professors are:

View Evans Day Content On-Demand!

The 36th Annual Department of Medicine Evans Days celebrated and showcased the research activities of the department's faculty, trainees and researchers. This year's event featured 170 posters and 12 oral presentations.

The poster session features 170 unique posters, a record high for the event and included virtual poster displays on the ePosterBoards platform.

The Awards Ceremony Dinner celebrated trainee winners of both the Basic and Clinical Research Poster Sessions and Oral presentations, and honored faculty recipients of the department's annual awards. This year's event featured live music by Boston University Alumni and violinist Anna Harris and pianist Nick Laudani.

Thank you to all who helped make this year's event so special!

View Evans Day Content On-Demand HERE *ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH 11/25*

To view the Thursday Ingelfinger Visiting Lecture by Dr. Drew Weissman click HERE

To view the Friday Wilkins Visiting Professor Grand Rounds click HERE

Congratulations Evans Day Award Winners!!!!

Please take a moment to recognize and congratulate these trainees who won awards at this year's Department of Medicine Virtual Evans Days!!!

Basic Oral Presentation Winners:

1^st Place: Anukul Shenoy

2^nd Place: Khaliun Enkhbayar

3^rd Place: Rhiannon Werder

Clinical Oral Presentation Winners:

1^ST Place: Eduardo Nunez

2^nd Place: Yusuke Koga

3^rd Place: Brooke Rice

Basic Poster Winners

1^st Place:  Neelou Etesami

2^nd Place: Liang (Martin) Ma

3^rd Place: Megan Snyder

Clinical Poster Winners:

1^st Place Tie: Kate Bloch

1^st Place Tie: Hamza Hassan

3^rd Place: Mengjie Yuan

BUMC Toastmasters Open House & 10 Year Anniversary Celebration!

Visit our OPEN HOUSE Meeting!

Have fun and warm up with us to find out more about BUMC Toastmasters

Thursday, October 21, 2021

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Refreshments will be provided

For more info and to RSVP email BUMCToastmasters@gmail.com

BUMC Toastmasters

Evans Biomedical Research Building, 7^th Floor, Room 715,

650 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118

For more information visit our website: BUMCToastmasters.toastmastersclubs.org

DOM Reads Next Book

For our second year of DoM Reads, we will read and discuss the book: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington.

Program Information:

• The book will be discussed in 3 sections 2x per academic year
• All meeting dates will be held virtually
  • Register here for the Fall Dates - Wednesday's from 12pm-1pm
    • September 29^th (Part 1 – Chapters 1-7)
    • October 27^th (Part 2 – Chapters 8-11)
    • December 8^th (Part 3 – Chapters 12-15)
  • Register here for the Spring Dates - Thursday's from 5pm-6pm
    • February 3^th (Part 1 – Chapters 1-7)
    • March 31^st (Part 2 – Chapters 8-11)
    • May 12^th (Part 3 – Chapters 12-15)

Please contact: bumcfdd@bu.edu if you have any questions.

Requesting 2021 Blue Ribbon Panelists for Evans Days

It’s that time of year, when we begin preparations to celebrate each other’s accomplishments within the Department of Medicine. The Department of Medicine Evans Days will be held virtually on October 7-8, 2021.  In order to select the outstanding poster presenters from among our trainees, we will need your expertise. This year, we will have approximately 120 submitted abstracts. All will be invited to post their posters online. Out of the 120 posted posters, 12 will be selected for oral presentations at Evans Days on Thursday, October 7. We expect to assign about 10-15 abstracts to each reviewer.

Please indicate if you would be willing to review and grade the abstracts in August to help select the 12 oral presenters (6 basic science and 6 clinical science) and/or serve as a judge at the oral and poster sessions on Thursday, October 7. Please RSVP by Friday, July 30, 2021  if you are able to participate.

2 Opportunities to Judge

Abstract  judging (August 6th - August 27th)

Abstracts  will be available for viewing online and each judge will be assigned ~10-15 abstracts to review

Oral Presentations & Poster Sessions (October 7)

Judges will have the opportunity to review their assigned posters online in advance of Evans Days. They will then be expected to visit their assigned posters during the virtual poster session from 9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. on October 7th.  Judges will then have the opportunity to interact with the researcher and ask them their questions.

Please indicate if you would be willing to help grade the abstracts and/or serve as a judge at the oral presentations or poster session on Thursday, October 7.

SIGN UP HERE!

For questions please contact Takiesha Brooks at takiesha@bu.edu,

Submit a Nomination for the Marie Antoinette Evans Staff Diversity Award Here!