Sondra Crosby, MD, Named a 2017 Community Clinician of the Year
Sondra Crosby, MD, Associate Professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine, was named as a 2017 Community Clinician of the Year by her physician peers of the Suffolk District Medical Society. Read more http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2017/03/23/sondra-crosby-named-a-2017-community-clinician-of-the-year/
Joshua Safer MD, honored by Massachusetts Medical Society
Joshua D. Safer, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2017 recipient of the society’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Award. This honor recognizes individuals that have made outstanding contributions to LGBT health. Dr. Safer will receive the award at the Society’s LGBT Networking Event on October 26, 2017. Read more https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2017/03/14/massachusetts-medical-society-honors-joshua-safer/
Steven Borkan, MD, selected for Alpha Omega Alpha 2017
Steven Borkan, MD, Professor in the Section of Nephrology, was selected for Alpha Omega Alpha, the only national honor medical society in the world. Read more: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2017/03/07/aoa-announces-2017-faculty-selections/
Joanne Murabito, MD, ScM named Co-PI of Framingham Heart Study
Benjamin Wolozin, MD, PhD receives Jack Spivack Excellence in Neurosciences Award 2017
Joseph P. Mizgerd, ScD receives 2017 Wing Tat Lee award
Joseph P. Mizgerd, ScD, Director of the Pulmonary Center, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology, and Biochemistry, will study Rhinovirus C, a recently discovered respiratory virus that may be an important cause of pneumonia and may exacerbate asthma, especially in children.
Vaishali Sanchorawala Named Amyloidosis Center Director and Skinner Professor
Vaishali Sanchorawala, MD, Professor in the Section of Hematology/Oncology, was appointed Director of the Amyloidosis Center, and named the Wesley and Charlotte Skinner Professor for Research in Amyloidosis. Read more: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2017/01/12/vaishali-sanchorawala-named-amyloidosis-center-director-and-skinner-professor/
DOM Faculty featured in Boston Magazine Top Docs 2016
Each year, Boston Magazine publishes its list of “Top Docs.” The Department of Medicine faculty members were well represented on the 2016 list. Please join us in congratulating the following physicians on this outstanding achievement:
Allergy and Immunology- Helen M. Hollingsworth
Cardiovascular Disease- Eric Awtry, Gary Balady, Sheilah Bernard, Robert Eberhardt
Cardiac Electrophysiology- Robert Helm
Interventional Cardiology- Alice Jacobs
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition- Alan Farwell, Michael Holick, Stephanie Lee, Joshua Safer
Gastroenterology- Francis Farraye, Robert Lowe, David Nunes
Geriatrics- Lisa Caruso, Hollis Day, Eric Hardt, Sharon Levine
Medical Oncology- Timothy Cooley, Gretchen Gignac, Kevan Hartshorn
Pulmonary Disease- Jeffrey Berman, Frederic Little, George O’Connor, Kevin Monahan
Vasan Ramachandran, MD, FACC named Jay and Louise Coffman Professor in Vascular Medicine
Vasan Ramachandran, MD, FACC, was named the Jay and Louise Coffman Professor in Vascular Medicine at an installation ceremony and reception on Friday, December 9, 2016.
The professorship honors Dr. Coffman (1928-2006) and his wife Louise. Dr. Coffman directed the Vascular Medicine Section and was an internationally recognized clinician investigator in the field of peripheral arterial, venous and vasculitic diseases. He discovered the principle of oxygen repayment in post-ischemic hyperemia, in the failure of the clinical use of vasodilators for peripheral arterial ischemia, and the diagnosis and treatment of Raynaud’s phenomenon. His wife Louise was a former BUMC nurse and an active member of the Boston University Women’s Auxiliary. Dr. Coffman was a consummate clinician and mentor who inspired his trainees and colleagues. He was an outstanding clinical investigator and used his understanding of vascular disease to help hundreds of patients and clinicians.
Ramachandran joined BUSM as an associate professor of Medicine in 1998 and was promoted to professor in 2006. He was appointed professor of Epidemiology at BU School of Public Health in 2013. Currently, he serves as Chief of the Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology in the Department of Medicine, Principal Investigator of the renowned Framingham Heart Study, with which he has been affiliated for the past 17 years, and Editor of Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics.
He received his medical degree from, and completed his residency in, internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He is the recipient of many RO1 awards from the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute and a mid-career clinical investigator award (K24).
Over the last 23 years, Ramachandran has made major contributions to the genetic and non-genetic epidemiology of congestive heart failure; population-based vascular testing, echocardiography and exercise testing; the genetic and non-genetic epidemiology of high blood pressure; and cardiovascular disease risk prediction models. His many awards and honors include the Department of Medicine’s Evans Scholar and Outstanding Mentor awards in 2010; Outstanding Mentor, American Heart Association (AHA) Council on Epidemiology Prevention in 2012; and the AHA’s prestigious Population Science Award in 2014.
Tracy Battaglia, MD appointed as Board Chair of the American Cancer Society
Tracy Battaglia, MD, Associate Professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine, has been appointed to a one-year term as Board Chair of the American Cancer Society (ACS) New England Division. https://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2016/12/15/tracy-battaglia-american-cancer-society/