Ryan Chippendale, MD, Receives Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award

Congratulations to Ryan Chippendale, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Geriatrics, who has been chosen as the recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, which is presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. The award is presented to faculty that best demonstrate the foundation’s ideals of outstanding compassion in the […]

Jude Deeney, PhD, and Darrell Kotton, MD, Honored as 2018 BUSM Educators of the Year

Congratulations to Jude Deeney, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Section of Endocrinology, and Darrell Kotton, MD, David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine in the Section of Pulmonary, for being honored as BUSM Educators of the Year by the Committee on Faculty Affairs (CFA). They were honored as BUSM Educators of the Year in addition to seven other […]

March 18 Faculty Appointments/Promotions

  Congratulations to the following DOM Faculty Members on their initial appointments and promotions at Boston University School of Medicine: Initial Appointments: Abu S. Abdullah, M.B., B.S, Ph.D., M.P.H. – Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine Jocelyn Keehner, M.D. – Instructor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine Kathleen E. Quintin, M.S.N., N.P.  – Instructor of […]

Yang Jin, MD, PhD and Xiaoling Zhang, MD, PhD Named Recipients of the 2018 Wing Tat Lee Awards

Congratulations to Yang Jin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine in Pulmonary, and Xiaoling Zhang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in Biomedical Genetics, who were selected to receive the 2018 Wing Tat Lee Awards. The awards were created to establish cooperative research programs between BUSM and Chinese universities, with a particular emphasis on those […]

February 18 Faculty Appointments/Promotions

Congratulations to the following DOM Faculty Members on their initial appointments and promotions at Boston University School of Medicine: Initial Appointments Philip Lederer, M.D. – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases Timothy Wymer, M.D. – Instructor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine Promotions Jai G. Marathe, M.B., B.S., M.S.  – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious […]

Flora Sam, MD, Appointed Interim Director of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute

Flora Sam, MD, Professor in the Section of Cardiology, has been appointed the Interim Director of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, effective February 1. She is replacing Kenneth Walsh, PhD, who has accepted a position at the University of Virginia. Dr. Sam serves as an advanced heart failure cardiologist and her research is focused in cardiac myocyte biology […]

January 18 Faculty Appointments/Promotions

Congratulations to the following DOM Faculty Members on their initial appointments and promotions at Boston University School of Medicine: Initial Appointments Luis M. Agosto Vazquez, Ph.D. – Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases Alexa Diranian, PA-C – Instructor of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine Marie F. Guerrier, M.S.N., ANP – Instructor of Medicine, Section of Geriatrics Nicole […]

David Salant, M.D. named as next Vice Chair of Research

  David Salant, M.D., has been named as the next Vice Chair of Research effective March 1, 2018. Dr. Salant is the Norman Levinsky Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section of Nephrology, and has had a very distinguished career as a physician investigator, academic leader, and mentor. His group’s sentinel studies on the immuno-pathogenesis […]