News & Updates
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD, Elected to Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics
Congratulations to Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD, Associate Professor in the Section of Biomedical Genetics, who was recently elected as the president-elect of the Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics (APHMG). Dr. Dasgupta, who also serves in the capacity of assistant dean of admissions, will serve as president-elect from 2018-2020 and... More
David Center, MD, Named Treasurer of Association for Clinical and Translational Science
Congratulations to David Center, MD, Section Chief of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine and Professor of Medicine, for being named as treasurer of the Board of Directors for The Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) in 2018-19. The Association for Clinical and Translational Science focuses on four realms: research, More
Faculty Members Promoted to Associate Professors
Congratulations to the following DOM faculty members that have recently been promoted to Associate Professors: Vipul Chitalia, MED, Medicine (Nephrology), is an emerging national and international physician scientist in the field of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Focusing on cardiovascular manifestations in patients with CKD and using thrombosis as a disease model, More
Craig Noronha, MD, Named As A 2018 Faculty Selection For Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA)
Congratulations to Craig Noronha, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, who was announced as a 2018 faculty selection for Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA). Alpha Omega Alpha is the only national honor medical society in the world, and is organized solely for educational purposes. The goals of the society are the promotion of... More
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... More