American Thyroid Association Names Elizabeth Pearce, MD, BoD President

Professor of Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Elizabeth Pearce, MD, MSc, has been named president of the Board of Directors of the American Thyroid Association. Her one-year term began in October 2018 and has served as president-elect for the past year. Dr. Pearce received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard […]

Nina Lin, MD and Manish Sagar, MD, Receive NIH Award to Combat HIV-induced Chronic Inflammation

      Congratulations to Nina Lin, MD, Assistant Professor in the Section of Infectious Disease and Manish Sagar, MD, Associate Professor in the Section of Infectious Disease, who along with their colleague Suryaram (Rahm) Gummuluru, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, received a five-year, $3.8 million RO1 Award from the National Institute of Aging (NIA)/National Institutes […]

AY18 Faculty Awards and Honors

Congratulations to the following Department of Medicine faculty members for their achievements during 2017-2018!   The Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) earned the 2017 Sharing Research Resources Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), established “to recognize successful models for sharing biomedical research resources.”   Caroline Apovian, MD, FACP, FACN, FTOS, Professor of […]

AY18 Research Accomplishments

  The Department of Medicine would like to recognize the following research accomplishments that occurred during FY18. Congratulations to all the faculty members for their innovative, ground breaking research!   Published Studies Receiving Mainstream and Science Media Attention: Bindu Kalesan’s study in the Journal of Affective Disorders found that the average profile of an American using […]

Noyan Gokce, M.D., and Ohio University Researcher Awarded NIH Grant

Congratulations to Noyan Gokce, M.D., Professor of Medicine in the Section of Cardiology, who received a 4 year, $2.2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Gokce and his co-principal investigator Vishwajeet Puri, PhD, Professor at The Diabetes Institute at Ohio University, will investigate the relationship between obesity-induced changes in fat […]

The Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Establishes Two New Arcs To Promote Team Science

The Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research (ECIBR) has established two new Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs), effective 7/1/18. ARCs consist of faculty and trainees from different disciplines across both BU campuses and are organized around foci of common research interests. The development of the ARCs create opportunities for new interdisciplinary approaches to research and training […]

Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc, Receives 2018 Spondylitis Association of America (SAA) Bruckel Early Career Investigator in Axial Spondyloarthritis Award

  Maureen Dubreuil, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology Research & Training, received the 2018 Spondylitis Association of America (SAA) Bruckel Early Career Investigator in Axial Spondyloarthritis Award. The $20,000.00 award was created to recognize outstanding “contributions to the care and understanding of patients with spondyloarthritis,” and named in honor of the Associations co-founder […]

Emelia J. Benjamin, M.D., ScM, Selected To Lead New AHA-Funded Center on AFib

Emelia J. Benjamin, M.D., ScM, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at BUSM and BUSPH, has been selected to lead a new center focused on AFib research, being funded by the American Heart Association (AHA).  The Center will examine AFib risk and stroke risk in patients with AFib, with a specific focus on African […]