News & Updates
Summer 2019 Newsletter
This edition includes Announcements Evans Days Spotlight: BRIM Study Award Recipients and Recognition Appointments & Promotions DOM Happenings View Newsletter
Actively Creating a Culture that Supports and Strengthens Diversity
Chair of Medicine, Dr. David Coleman is featured in BU Today's article "The Key to BU’s Diversity Efforts? Powerful Allies". As an Ally, Dr. Coleman reflects that there are many things all of us can do to create a culture on campus and in medicine to celebrate diversity. Crystal Williamson, Boston University’s... More
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... More
Pulmonary Faculty Introduce T35 Medical Student Training Grant
Dr. Lindsay Farrer featured on NBC 10 Boston
"DNA Kits Yield Different Results From Two Genetics Companies" Dr. Lindsay Farrer, Chief of Biomedical Genetics section, helps clarify the accuracy of DNA ancestry kits like 23 and Me and Ancestry.com. Users of these genetic testing services have questioned their accuracy after receiving different test results from different companies. Dr. Farrer notes that... More
“Good News: Opioid Prescribing Fell. The Bad? Pain Patients Suffer, Doctors Say”, featuring Dr. Daniel Alford in New York Times
"Good News: Opioid Prescribing Fell. The Bad? Pain Patients Suffer, Doctors Say", featuring Dr. Daniel Alford in New York Times Dr. Daniel Alford of the Section of General Internal Medicine and director of the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit helps to advocate for smarter guidelines for opioid prescriptions for pain... More
Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery’s Jenny Siegel and Carl Streed published in AAMC News
Keeping our promise to LGBTQ+ patients Drs. Jenny Siegel and Carl Streed of BMC's Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery discuss the challenges members of the LGBTQ+ community often face when interacting with healthcare providers and the pressing need to train future physicians to provide compassionate, informed, and appropriate care to LGBTQ+... More
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... More
Dr. Emelia Benjamin featured on HealthDay
Dr. Emelia Benjamin, Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Diversity for the Department of Medicine, recently led the committee that published a report titled Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics - 2019 Update, the findings from which were highlighted in a Jan 31st article on HealthDay.com. While the report found that nearly... More