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A Conversation: Race and Violence
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July 13 A Conversation: Race and Violence
The BUSM Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs invites all members of the BUMC/BMC community to participate in an open and candid dialog about race and violence. The targeted police shootings in Dallas at a peaceful protest in response to videos showing two African-American men shot by police in Louisiana and Minnesota has sparked ongoing... More
Slone Epidemiology Center Leadership Changes
After 18 years as Director of the Slone Epidemiology Center, Allen A. Mitchell, MD, professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, has decided to step down, effective Sept. 1. Mitchell was a founding member of the Drug Epidemiology Unit (now known as the Slone Epidemiology Center) led by Drs. Dennis Slone and Samuel Shapiro that came to BU... More
Vote for BUSM’s Jane Mendez!
BUSM's Dr. Jane Mendez, surgery, is in the running as one of People’s (en Espanol) 25 Most Influential Latina Women! Nominated by her sister Laura Posada, wife of former major league baseball player Jorge Posada, Mendez is highlighted for her years of service as a breast cancer surgeon at BMC and associate professor of surgery... More
Slone Awarded Grant to Better Understand Breast Cancer Among African-American Women
Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers from Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center (SEC) have received funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to explore this question. The new grant is based on the premise that having a better understanding of the biology... More
July 4 Transportation Services
SHUTTLES No shuttle services, including the HealthNet patient shuttle. The BUS (Boston University Shuttle) will NOT operate. Please visit www.bu.edu/thebus for additional information. PARKING All parking facilities will be open. MBTA All subway lines will operate on a Sunday schedule. Buses will operate on a Sunday schedule except for the CT1 & CT3, which will not be operating. Commuter rail will operate on... More
July 18 Join BUMC Band on Talbot Green
Emelia Benjamin Receives AHA’s Highest Honor
The American Heart Association presented its 2016 Gold Heart Award to Professor of Medicine and Assistant Provost for Faculty Development Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FAHA. The Gold Heart Award is the highest honor the association gives in recognition of continued, distinguished service. The award was presented at the association's 2016 Gold Heart Banquet in... More
New Cross-Campus Initiative: Biomedical Bridge BUilders
Biomedical Engineering and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute have established a new collaborative program, the Biomedical Bridge BUilders Initiative. It is designed to accelerate the commercialization of clinician-inspired medical device innovations by partnering with graduate engineering biodesign and product development teams. Clinical care providers on the Medical Campus are invited to email short (one page... More
Moment of Silence, Reflection for Orlando Victims
On Friday, June 17, Medical Campus students, faculty and staff joined together in a moment of silence and reflection in remembrance of the lives lost and irrevocably changed during the tragedy that occurred in Orlando, Florida. In honor of those no longer with us and to express what cannot be said with words, pianist Moises... More
Register for Mentoring the Mentor: Training for Clinical and Translational Researchers
The Boston University Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CSTI) is accepting registration for “Mentoring the Mentor: Training for Clinical and Translational Researchers.” This is a sophisticated interactive training program that uses case studies developed and vetted with other CTSI groups around the country. All Medical Campus mentoring research faculty are encouraged to advantage of this rare... More
GSDM Gives Back at 2016 Special Olympics
On Saturday, June 4, students, faculty, and staff from Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) participated in the Healthy Athletes® Special Smiles® initiative at the Special Olympics Massachusetts Summer Games at Harvard University’s Murr Center. More than 1,800 athletes from the Greater Boston area converged on Harvard University’s Athletic Complex to participate in... More
STaRS Scholars Join 19 BUMC Research Labs
The Summer Training as Research Scholars (STaRS) program welcomed 19 high achieving undergraduates to an immersive 10 week summer research experience in laboratories across the Medical Campus. Students are typically rising juniors or seniors. The BUSM STaRS program, funded by the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, has trained 48 scholars since 2013, receiving more... More
BU-CTSI Offering Free Research Consults
The Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU-CTSI) offers consultations through the Clinical Research Informatics and Technology Consultation (CRITC) Service for BU/BMC researchers. The CRITIC consultations help researchers identify, develop and implement the effective and efficient use of information technology and informatics in their clinical studies. Free 1-hour One-on-One Consultations Are Available Contact Christopher Shanahan, MD, MPH, More
BUMC Public Safety Awards Ceremony
Watch the video! The BUMC Department of Public Safety recognized 40 members of the department for their exemplary service Tuesday, June 7. Approximately 175 family and friends of the honorees and BUMC/BMC faculty and staff attended the ceremony. Norwood Chief of Police Bill Brooks delivered the keynote address. Jeffrey W. Hutter, DMD, MEd, Dean and Spencer N. More
CTE Investigators Launch $16 Million Study
A former football player describes brain disease symptoms and angst Tim Fox, the 62-year-old former New England Patriots safety, was describing to a room full of brain scientists at the Boston University School of Medicine (MED) the ferocious style of play that he’d been trained in from an early age, one that had led to countless... More
Pilot Grant Program Seeks Applicants
The Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences (CIIS) seeks pilot projects that will improve the processes and outcomes of health care delivery. More
Lynne Stevens Memorial Addresses Human Trafficking and Health Care
On May 24 the Department of Family Medicine hosted the Seventh Annual Lynne Stevens Memorial Lecture, delivered by Elaine Alpert, MD, MPH, a scholar in family violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking at the University of British Columbia (UBC) who consults internationally on education, policy, public health and prevention. During the lecture Alpert described the scope, More
NEIDL Ventilation Monitoring Was Temporarily Halted
March malfunction posed no public health threat A malfunctioning network switch at BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) resulted in a shutdown of parts of the lab’s ventilation monitoring system for eight hours on March 21. The malfunction impeded the flow of air out of the Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) and Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) labs. More
11th Annual McCahan Day Inspires, Innovates BUMC Educators
On Thursday, May 25, more than 100 faculty, staff, residents and students attended the 11th Annual John McCahan Medical Education Day on the BU Medical Campus, an interactive event that aims to showcase the wide variety of educational innovations and research activities taking place on campus. Named after John McCahan, MD, former associate dean for Academic... More
May 30 Memorial Day Parking and Transportation Services
Parking and Transportation Services for Memorial Day observed on Monday, May 30 Shuttle Services NO SHUTTLE SERVICES including the HealthNet service and Boston University Shuttle (BUS). Parking All parking facilities will be open. 610 Albany Street garage monthly parkers may park in the 710 Albany Street or Doctors Office Building (DOB) garages. All valid 610 Albany Street garage access will be... More
BioScience Academy Receives Additional Funding
Boston University’s BioScience Academy has received nearly $100K to train unemployed and/or underemployed Massachusetts residents with additional skills for jobs in life sciences. This award is part of more than $2 million in grants from the Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund (WCTF) that supports regional partnerships between businesses, educational institutions, community-based organizations and workforce development groups. The... More
Capitalizing on a Teachable Moment Motivates Parents of Kids with Asthma to Quit Smoking
First Study to Prospectively Test the Effectiveness of a Teachable Moment Parents who smoke are more likely to quit smoking after receiving motivational smoking cessation counseling following a “teachable moment” (TM) such as witnessing their child experience an asthma attack. The study, which appears in the journal Addiction, also found that in-home counseling visits, including feedback on... More
Barriers to Integrated Pediatric Dental Care Common at Federal Health Centers
Time constraints, professional boundaries, and a lack of training and shared electronic medical records are among the key reasons why oral health often is not integrated into pediatric primary care at federally qualified health centers, according to a new study led by a School of Public Health researcher. The study, published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease, More
Air Pollution Not Tied to Weight Gain in Adult Women
In an article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Laura White, associate professor of biostatistics, and colleagues from the Slone Epidemiology Center at BU probed the association between ambient air pollution exposure and weight gain over 16 years among a large group of African American women in the long-running Black Women’s Health Study (BWHS). More