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, […]

Summer 2019 Newsletter

This edition includes Announcements Evans Days Spotlight: BRIM Study Award Recipients and Recognition Appointments & Promotions DOM Happenings View Newsletter

Spring 2019 Newsletter

This edition includes Upcoming Events Announcements Spotlight: EPIC Leads Admin Spotlight Intern Match Results Award Recipients and Recognition Appointments & Promotions Research Corner DOM Happenings View Newsletter

Framingham Heart Study Awarded $38M NHLBI Contract Renewal

The Framingham Heart Study (FHS), the nation’s longest running cohort study with longitudinal analysis of cardiovascular disease, has received a contract renewal for an additional six years and $38 million dollars from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The contract period will support examining the elderly groups of the cohort study, the Offspring […]

NEJM Editorial by Dr. George O’Connor featured in New York Times

Featured in the New York Times article “E-Cigarettes Are Effective at Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says”, the New England Journal of Medicine editorial by BU pulmonologist  Dr. George O’Connor and Dr. Belinda Borrelli, a behavioral health expert, “noted that 80 percent of the study participants who had quit by using e-cigarettes were still vaping at one […]

Dr. Tuhina Neogi is new Chief of Rheumatology

We are delighted to announce that Tuhina Neogi, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, has accepted our offer to become Chief of the Rheumatology Section effective January 1, 2019. Dr. Neogi received her M.D. from the University of Toronto and Ph.D. from the Boston University School of Public Health. She leads an internationally known research […]

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 […]

2017 New Faculty Awards

  The Department of Medicine would like to recognize and congratulate the following faculty members for new awards received: September 2017: Boston Medical Center  Deepa Gopal, Cardiology, Cardiac Phenotyping to Identify Preclinical Heart Failure in Metabolic Syndrome, American Heart Association Jeffrey Samet, General Internal Medicine, Linking Russian Narcology and HIV Care to Enhance Treatment, Retention and Outcomes Part II, […]