New DOM Awards Announced! – Deadline for Submission September 11

In addition to the eight awards that are given out on Evans Days, the Department of Medicine has announced the addition of two new Faculty Development and Diversity Awards (a faculty award and non-faculty diversity award) and an Administrative Award. The Faculty Development and Diversity Award is awarded to a Department of Medicine faculty member […]

Session Recap from A Day of Collective Engagement

Opening Remarks and Opening Plenary “Until we each understand how an Africa-American student or a Latino staff member sees and experiences our actions and words, we will be forever on the outside of the cycle of racism that afflicts us.  We must aspire to be the Boston University deserving of the legacy offing the university […]

Appointments & Promotions – June ’20

Professor(s): Renda Wiener, MD   Clinical Professor(s): Christine Reardon, MD   Assistant Professors: Navid Alavi, MD Hussein Assi, MD Nabila Azad, MD Nicholas Bosch, MD Kathryn Fantasia, MD Jean Liew, MD Nicole Mushero, MD

Appointments & Promotions – May ’20

Professor(s): Alan Moss, MD   Assistant Professors: Polly Dhond, PhD Albert Nadjaria, MD Jennifer Palmer, MD Purva Ranchal, MD Angela Reffel, PA-C Haihua Zhang, MD   Instructors: Sarah Khan, MD Lauren Kearney, MD Ryan Knodle, MD Justin Peterson, MD Tashia Prince-Lacombe, NP Samantha Rawlins-Pilgrim, MD Olivia Rowse, MD Stephen Russell, MD Melinda Tonelli, MD Judy […]

Dr. Weining Lu Named BU Innovator of the Year

Dr. Weining Lu, associate professor in the section of Nephrology, has been named 2019 BU Innovator of the Year. Dr. Lu’s research focuses on the gene ROBO2 as it relates to a kidney’s filtering ability, and has led to a collaboration with Pfizer’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) since November 2012.  This unique collaboration between academia […]

Angelique Harris, PhD, New Director of Faculty Development & Diversity

We are delighted to announce that Angelique Harris, PhD will begin as our new Director of Faculty Development and Diversity in the Department of Medicine, and Director of Faculty Development for the BU Medical Campus, starting on Tuesday, November 12th. She joins our faculty, having previously served as an Associate Professor of Sociology with tenure […]

Geriatrics Patient Tea Party

Our geriatrics patients really know how to have a good time! The Geriatrics Section hosted their 2nd Patient Tea Party for on November 1st in the Geriatrics clinic on Shapiro 9. About 20-25 patients, many of them 95-100 years old, and family members mingled with Geriatric physicians, nurses, and support staff. We were very proud […]

David Felson Awarded NIH Grant to Study Osteoarthritis

David Felson, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) P30 Center Grant. As a member of the section of Rheumatology and the Boston University Core Center for Clinical Research, Dr. Felson’s five-year $3.6 million award will provide broad […]

2019 Evans Clinician Designees

The Evans Clinician Designation was established in 2017 to recognize and celebrate outstanding clinicians who possess clinical skills, attributes and professionalism that define excellence and to establish a home for such individuals to share experiences and grow their membership. The following faculty have been designated as Evans Clinicians at the 2019 Evans Research Days: Gary […]

Evans Research Days- Oct 3 & 4, 2019

  View Photos   The 34th Annual Evans Department of Medicine Research Days celebrated and showcased the research activities of the department’s faculty, trainees and researchers. This year’s event featured the 2nd year of the Poster Blitz, 24 3-minute oral presentations of some of this year’s most exciting submissions. The poster session featured 97 presentations, […]