Robert Witzburg, MD, named the 2017 recipient of the Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Witzburg, Professor of Medicine in the Section of General Internal Medicine, for being named the 2017 recipient of the Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence. This award was established in 2010 to commemorate Jerome Klein’s 50 years of service to BUSM/BMC and is presented annually to a physician that shares Dr. Klein’s attributes, which include clinical and research excellence, leadership, and a dedicated commitment to education and mentoring.
December 17 Faculty Appointments/Promotions
Congratulations to the following DOM Faculty Members on their initial appointments at Boston University School of Medicine:
Initial Appointments
Adam Gower, Ph.D. – Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Computational Biomedicine
Jennifer Howard, M.S.N., APN-BC – Instructor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine
Arpan Mohanty, M.B., B.S. – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology
Megan R. Whelton, M.D., M.P.H. – Instructor of Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
Boston Magazine’s Top Doctors 2017
Boston Magazine's annual Top Docs issue has hit newsstands, and the Department of Medicine was well represented. Congratulations to the following faculty members named to the list:
Allergy & Immunology
Helen M. Hollingsworth
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Robert H. Helm
Kevin M. Monahan
Cardiovascular Disease
Eric H. Awtry
Gary J. Balady
Sheilah A. Bernard
Robert T. Eberhardt
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Sonia Ananthakrishnan
Alan P. Farwell
Michael F. Holick
Stephanie L. Lee
Elizabeth N. Pearce
Joshua D. Safer
Gastroenterology
Francis A. Farraye
David R. Lichtenstein
Robert C. Lowe
David P. Nunes
Paul C. Schroy III
Geriatric Medicine
Heidi P. Auerbach
Lisa B. Caruso
Hollis D. Day
Eric J. Hardt
Sharon A. Levine
Hematology
Vaishali H. Sanchorawala
Internal Medicine
Thomas W. Barber
Melissa D. DiPetrillo
Warren Y. Hershman
Angela H. Jackson
Susan L. Phillips
Jeffrey H. Samet
Interventional Cardiology
Alice K. Jacobs
Ashvin N. Pande
Medical Oncology
Timothy P. Cooley
Gretchen Gignac
Kevan L. Hartshorn
Adam Lerner
Nephrology
Jasvinder S. Bhatia
David J. Salant
Pulmonary Disease
John L. Berk
Jeffrey S. Berman
John Bernardo
Harrison W. Farber
Frederic F. Little
George T. O'Connor Jr.
Arthur C. Theodore
Rheumatology
David T. Felson
Eugene Y. Kissin
Paul A. Monach
Robert W. Simms
Matthew Kulke, M.D., appointed Chief of the Section of Hematology/Oncology and Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine
Matthew Kulke, M.D., has been appointed Chief of the Section of Hematology/Oncology and Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine effective March 1, 2018. In addition, he will also serve as Deputy Director of the BU-BMC Cancer Center and Medical Director of the Clinical Cancer Center at BMC. Dr. Kulke currently serves as the Director of the Program in Neuroendocrine and Carcinoid Tumors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and has received numerous awards for his accomplishments as a clinical investigator and provider of compassionate care to patients. He has led national and international clinical trials to identify new therapeutic and diagnostic approaches to neuroendocrine tumors and gastrointestinal malignancies, and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles about neuroendocrine tumors.
Read more: https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2017/11/21/matthew-kulke-md-joins-bumc/
Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, promoted to Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Congratulations to Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine in the Section of General Internal Medicine, on his promotion to Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education (CME). Dr. Alford has served as Assistant Dean for CME since September 2011, and holds a number of positions, including directing the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) and the BU Evidence-based SBIRT Student Training (BESST) programs at BUSM, and directing the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit in the Section of General Internal Medicine and the NIDA-funded Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) Program in Addiction Medicine at BMC. Dr Alford joined the BUSM faculty in 1996, and his clinical, educational and research interests focus on opioid use disorders and safe and competent opioid prescribing for chronic pain. Additional honors include:
- Served as past- president of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA)
- Recognized as a “Champion of Change” by the White House in 2011
- Received the AMA “Award for Health Education” in 2014
- Received the American Society of Addiction Medicine first “Educator of the Year Award" in 2016
- Received the American College of Physicians “Award for Distinguished Contributions to Behavioral Medicine" in 2017
Caroline Apovian, M.D., named President of The Obesity Society
Caroline M. Apovian, MD, Professor in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, was named President of The Obesity Society (TOS), a nonprofit scientific and educational organization that is dedicated to expanding research, the prevention and treatment of obesity, and reducing discrimination affecting persons with obesity. Read more: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/11/01/1172672/0/en/Caroline-Apovian-Named-President-of-The-Obesity-Society.html
James Hudspeth, M.D. and Kristen Lee, M.D., honored and inducted into newly formed Clinical Excellence Society
Members of the BU Medical Group, formerly known as the Faculty Practice Foundation, honored the clinical contributions of BU faculty who exemplify the mission and values of the Group through leadership, patient care and innovative perspectives. James Hudspeth, MD, Section of General Internal Medicine and Kristen Lee, MD, Section of General Internal Medicine were among the 15 fifteen faculty inducted into the newly formed Clinical Excellence Society.
In addition, Dr. Hudspeth was presented the Excellence in Care Award, which is presented to an early or mid-career clinician that demonstrates clinical excellence and serves as an exceptional role model for the values in his clinical work.
Congratulations to Dr. Hudspeth and Dr. Lee!
Read more: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2017/10/19/bubmc-faculty-recognized-for-clinical-excellence/
October 17 Faculty Appointments/Promotions
Congratulations to the following DOM Faculty Members on their initial appointments at Boston University School of Medicine:
Initial Appointments
Patricia Dominique, M.S.N., NP – Instructor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine
Lisa M. Mendelson, M.S.N., CNP – Instructor of Medicine, Section of Hematology & Medical Oncology
Alana Ngo, M.S.N., FNP-BC – Instructor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine
2017 New Faculty Awards
The Department of Medicine would like to recognize and congratulate the following faculty members for new awards received:
September 2017: Boston Medical Center
Deepa Gopal, Cardiology, Cardiac Phenotyping to Identify Preclinical Heart Failure in Metabolic Syndrome, American Heart Association
Jeffrey Samet, General Internal Medicine, Linking Russian Narcology and HIV Care to Enhance Treatment, Retention and Outcomes Part II, NIH-NIDA
Jeffrey Samet, General Internal Medicine, ST. PETER HIV-Alcohol, Protein Biomarkers and Cardiovascular Disease Risk, NIH-NIAAA
Jeffrey Samet, General Internal Medicine, Pilot Study of Opioid-receptor Antagonist to Reduce Pain and Inflammation among HIV-Infected Persons, NIH-NIAAA
Ricardo Cruz, General Internal Medicine, Project Recover (Referral, Engagement, Case Management and Overdose Prevention Education in Recov…), DHHS
Ian Rifkin, Nephrology, The Role of Interferon Regulatory Factor 5 in the Pathogenesis of SLE, NIH-NIAID
July, August 2017: Boston University
Jessica Fetterman, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Topmed Informatics Resource Center- Data and Working Group Support, University of Michigan
William Evan Johnson, Computational Biomedicine, An Interactive Analysis Toolkit for Single cell RNA-SEQ In Cancer Research, NIH/National Cancer Institute
Suzanne Sarfaty, GIM, Outreach Van Project, Mass Medical Society
Kenneth Walsh, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Somatic TET2 Mutations in Cardiac Remodeling, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Inst.
Francesca Seta, Vascular Biology, Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center, Boston Medical Center Corporation
David Felson, Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Fats, Fiber and Osteoarthritis, NIH/National Institute of Arthritis & Mu
Jason Rock, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Mechanisms of Adult Lung Alveologenesis, NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Inst.
Hasmeena Kathuria, Pulmonary Center, Capitalizing on Hospitalization to Engage Low Ses Smokers in LDCT Screening, American Lung Association
Lee Quinton, Pulmonary Center, Inducible Epithelial Resilience During Pneumonia, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Inst.
Traci Bethea, Slone Epidemiology Center, An Assessment of Whether Aspirin and/or Vitamin D Improves Breast Cancer Outcomes in Black Women and the Modifying Effect of Genetic Variants, NIH/National Cancer Institute
Naomi Hamburg, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Novel Factors For Muscle Mass Strength In Adults, Hebrew Senior Life
Can an App Reduce Cardiac Risks?
Joanne Murabito, MD, ScM, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM, Professor of Medicine, are leading a study to explore different approaches to capturing health data using mobile devices such as smartphones. Read more: https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2017/10/11/can-an-app-reduce-cardiac-risks/