News & Updates
BUMC Faculty Promotions – July-September 2022
Congratulations to the following Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion. Professor Tracy Battaglia, MD, MPH, Medicine/GIM; School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences, is a primary care clinician-investigator internationally recognized for her collaborative, innovative approaches to addressing health disparities among women historically marginalized. As director of... More
Message from Dr. Hollenberg – New Chair of Medicine
As Chair of the Department of Medicine I look forward to our journey ahead. While the Covid-19 pandemic has changed and will continue to change medicine our Department will remain committed to its missions including: A. outstanding and equal care for all; B. health equity; C. research that spans all... More
Welcome Dr. Hollenberg – Chair of the Department of Medicine!
We are pleased to announce that Anthony “Tony” Hollenberg, MD, has been named the John Wade Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine (DOM) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), and Physician-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center (BMC). Dr. Hollenberg joins BUSM/BMC Monday, November 14th(today!). Currently, Dr. Hollenberg is the... More
Dr. David Coleman Farewell Celebration
To honor the outstanding dedication of Dr. Coleman to mentoring and innovative research, BUSM is establishing the David Coleman, MD, Junior Faculty Prize. Our goal is to reach $100,000 to endow the fund - Click Here to Donate
Congratulations to the 2022 Evans Days Winners!!!!!!!!
Evans Days Poster & Presentation Winners Clinical Poster Winners: 1st Place - Dylan Steiner 2nd Place - Najia Idress 3rd Place - Divya Shankar, MD Basic Science Poster Winners: 1st Place - Liang (Martin) Ma, MD, PhD Candidate 2nd Place - Anna McGregor 3rd Place - Mehmed Taha Dinc, MD Clinical Oral Presentation Winners: 1st Place - Ioanna Yiannakou, RDC, More
BUMC Faculty Promotions – June 2022
Associate Professor Joshua Campbell, PhD, BUSM, Medicine/Computational Biomedicine, has established his lab as one of the leading computational genomics groups developing novel algorithms and software to address unmet needs across a variety of cancers. His group has developed novel statistical methods to identify transcriptional modules in single-cell RNA-seq data and mutational... More
DoM Faculty Promotions – May 2022
Congratulations to the following faculty on their recent appointment or promotion. Professor Elizabeth Klings, MD, BUSM, Medicine/Pulmonary/Critical Care, is an adult pulmonary/critical care physician and clinician investigator who has a unique career niche in pulmonary hypertension (PH) of sickle cell disease (SCD). She has built a portfolio of publications, committee work and invited... More
Ad Interim Leadership for the Framingham Heart Study
Joanne Murabito, MD, and George O’Connor, MD, have agreed to serve as ad interim directors and co-principal investigators of the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), effective 9/1/2022, replacing Vasan Ramachandran, MD, who will be leaving BU in September to become the founding Dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health at San... More
George O’Connor, M.D., M.S. – Interim Chief of the Section of Preventive Medicine in the Department of Medicine
We are delighted to announce that George O’Connor, M.D., M.S. has agreed to serve as Interim Chief of the Section of Preventive Medicine in the Department of Medicine starting September 1, 2022. Dr. O’Connor is Professor of Medicine based in the Pulmonary Section. He is internationally known for his studies... More
Dr. Vasan Ramachandran Appointed Founding Dean, University of Texas School of Public Health at San Antonio
Vasan Ramachandran, MD, has been appointed the founding Dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health at San Antonio, effective in September. A member of our community since 1993, Dr. Ramachandran is the Jay and Louise Coffman Professor of Vascular Biology, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at BUSM and... More