DoM Nurse Receives Nurses Week Provider Partner of the Year Award

Congratulations to DoM’s Dr. Christopher Huang for winning one of this year’s Nurses Week Provider Partner of the Year Awards, given to providers who are great partners to us in caring for our patients here at BMC!  Quotes from nomination letters are below. “Dr. Huang is the first to recognize exceptional teamwork and its affect […]

DOM Faculty Receives DEIA Recognition Awards

Assistant Professor of Medicine Ricardo Cruz, MD, MPH, MA is one of two to receive the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEIA) of the Year Award. The award recognizes those who have done an extraordinary job at addressing and improving diversity and fostering a culture of inclusion, equity and accessibility throughout the school community. Cruz joined […]

DOM Faculty Appointments and Promotions – March 2024

Professor Stefano Monti, PhD, Medicine/Computational Biomedicine, integrates systems biology, machine learning and bioinformatics approaches to investigate the molecular drivers of human disease, with the goals of advancing prevention and care. This multidisciplinary effort relies on the development of novel computational methodologies, and on the design of experiments based on the generation and integrative analysis of high-throughput […]

DoM Education Week – May 20-24

The Department of Medicine will hold its first Education Week from May 20th through May 24th. There will be a series of activities for educators, administrators, and trainees with the hope to promote a sense of community, foster collaborations in teaching, and celebrate educational success at DOM. Please check out the agendas below for more […]

DoM Faculty Receives Million Research Partnership to Intercept Lung Cancer From American Lung Association and the LUNGevity Foundation

WASHINGTON, DC (April 9, 2024) – Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, with someone diagnosed approximately every two minutes. In a collaborative effort to end this devastating disease, the American Lung Association and LUNGevity Foundation have joined forces to invest $3 million over the next three years in research […]

Asher Tulsky, MD, Named Distinguished Faculty of the Month for April

The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Associate Professor of Medicine Asher Tulsky, MD, has been named April’s Distinguished Faculty of the Month.  He joined our community in December 2015. Currently, he serves as associate chief for education in the Section of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine. He is also director of […]

Researchers Awarded $14 Million to Better Understand, Treat Genetic Lung Diseases

A team of researchers led by Darrell N. Kotton, MD, the David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $14 million grant from the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for his research, “Developing Pluripotent Stem Cells to Model and Treat Lung Disease.” Lung diseases, such as those caused by gene […]