News & Updates
Announcing Fellowship Match & Future Positions! – Internal Medicine Residency Program
Senior Residents Graduating Class of 2024 Gabrielle Barbera, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship, Rutgers R. W. Johnson Medical School - Newark, NJ Danielle Bellavance, Chief Medical Resident, Boston Medical Center/VA - Boston, MA Shreya Bhatia, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, Boston Medical Center - Boston, MA Abbi Cerezo, Hospitalist, University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT Samantha Chua, Gastroenterology... More
Save the Date: DoM DEIA Week | March 18-22
The DoM will hold its first annual Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Week the week of March 18, 2024. In the DoM, we are dedicated to fostering a workplace that values and celebrates diversity, promotes equity, ensures inclusion, and prioritizes accessibility. We firmly believe that our collective differences make us... More
Center of Excellence in Sickle Cell Disease Announces First FDA-Approved Gene Therapies for SCD
DECEMBER 8, 2023 (Boston) – Boston Medical Center (BMC), a national leader in the treatment of sickle cell disease for more than 50 years, announced today that it will offer the first-ever gene therapies for sickle cell disease, including one that uses a type of novel genome editing technology. The new... More
Dr. Naomi Hamburg Receives The Hans Klaus Breddin Vas International Honorary Award
Join us in congratulating Dr. Hamburg!
DoM in the Media: First Referral Guide Issued for Axial Spondyloarthritis
SAN DIEGO — The Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network (SPARTAN) has created the first referral recommendations for axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). The draft recommendations use a points scoring system, with the goal that at least 1 in 3 patients referred would be diagnosed with axSpA, an inflammatory arthritis that affects the central skeleton and... More
DoM Faculty Promotions!
Clinical Associate Professor Gopala Yadavalli, MD, Infectious Diseases, is a clinician-educator focused on the care of inpatients. He splits his clinical time at Boston Medical Center (BMC) between attending on inpatient infectious diseases ward and consult services. Shortly after joining the faculty in 2011, Dr. Yadavalli co-created BMC’s inpatient infectious diseases ward... More
DoM’s Mark Logue, PhD: They Served Their Country. Now, They’re Serving Their Fellow Veterans
James Whitworth traces the path to his military service in simple terms: “I heard the call, and I answered,” says the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine assistant professor of psychiatry. It was just after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Whitworth recalls, and he enlisted in the... More
Dr. Gopal Yadavalli Receives Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Yadavalli on being a 2024 recipient of the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award!
37th Annual Evans Days Symposium Highlights Extensive, Important Research
Tablet in hand, David Salant, MD, the Robert Dawson Evans Distinguished Professor of Medicine, paused briefly in his judging of the 160 poster presentations at the annual Department of Medicine Evans Days, to answer a question on what had changed over the 37-year history of the two-day symposium. “The volume and quality... More
Congratulations to This Year’s Evans Days Awardees!
Evans Days Poster & Presentation Winners Clinical Poster Winners: 1st Place: Samantha Malatesta, PhD Candidate 2nd Place: Adriana Flores, MD 3rd Place: Alex Werekuu, MPH Basic Science Poster Winners: 1st Place: Gwen Beacham, PhD 2nd Place: Burcu Erdogan, PhD 3rd Place: Lorraine Soares De Oliveira, PhD Clinical Oral Presentation Winners: 1st Place: Lauren Kearney, MD 2nd Place: Victoria Overbeck, MPH 3rd Place: Breanne Biondi, MPH Basic Oral Science Presentation Winners: 1st Place: Lucien Garo, More