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Medical Campus Volunteers Brave Polar Vortex to Help Boston’s Homeless

February 4th, 2019in Featured

Mayor to participants: “Every person you meet out there is loved by somebody” At 10:30 pm January 30, it was dark on the streets of Boston, and bitterly cold. Mayor Martin Walsh had just kicked off the 39th annual Boston homeless census, telling more than 300 volunteers at City Hall that their work was important—that they... More

BUMC Program Successfully Prepares Minority Students for Dental School

January 30th, 2019in Featured

Boston University’s Oral Health Sciences (OHS) master’s program is a successful credential-enhancing program for dental school applicants, while also serving as a pipeline to increase the number of qualified applicants from underrepresented minority (URM) groups. There are a variety of academic enrichment programs for medical school applicants however, development of pre-dental enrichment programs has lagged behind. More

Celebrating the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 25th, 2019in Featured

The Medical Campus community gathered in Hiebert Lounge on Thursday, Jan. 24, to commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year the annual event featured a conversation with Crystal Ann Williams, Associate Provost for Diversity & Inclusion. Rafael Ortega, MD, Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion, welcomed more than 100 attendees. Dr. Ortega, More

BMC Neurology Patients Collaborate with BU Students to Display the Healing Power of Music

January 7th, 2019

 What do you get when you combine students from the Boston University College of Fine Arts, talented BMC neurology patients, and a few instruments? A concert to remember. For the last seven years, Boston University’s Arts|Lab program, which aims to help people reimagine art in society, has sponsored a production that features a unique musical collaboration... More

Dental School Unveils New Albany Street Entrance

January 3rd, 2019in Announcements, Featured

It was a momentous return from Intersession for the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM), which officially opened its new Patient and Visitor entrance located at 635 Albany St. as of 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2. The new entrance now is the school’s official address. The opening of the patient and visitor entrance is... More

Parking & Transportation Information for Intersession

December 11th, 2018in Announcements, Featured

Parking Tuesday, Dec. 25 & Tuesday, Jan. 1 All parking facilities will be open. 610 Garage monthly parkers may park in the 710 Albany Street or Doctors Office Building (DOB) garages. All valid 610 Garage access will be programmed to work in the 710 Albany Street and DOB garages. Those not enrolled in the monthly parking program... More

Public Safety Awards 2018

October 25th, 2018in Featured

BUMC public safety officers and members of the Medical Campus community were honored for their exemplary service over the course of the year. More

Interdisciplinary BUMC Team Investigates Dialysis Access Malfunction

September 17th, 2018in Featured, Research

Patients with chronic kidney disease frequently develop stenosis of their intrathoracic large veins (i.e., central venous stenosis), which jeopardizes their prospects of having a functional dialysis access, while the current modality to diagnose this complication is fraught with inaccuracies. An interdisciplinary team of clinicians, biomedical engineers and scientists, including members of the Evans Center IBR Thrombosis... More

NEIDL Researchers Create Tool to Study New Virus

September 5th, 2018in Featured, Research

Could help determine if Ebola-like LLOV can cause disease in humans In recent years, traces of new zoonotic viruses—pathogens that live in animals and could potentially cause infectious diseases in humans—have been discovered in bats, fish, and other species around the world. But scientists have been stumped in their search for the complete genome for these... More