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Critical Thinking Workshop
More than 50 BUMC faculty, course and program directors gathered Dec. 21-22 in Hiebert Lounge to take part in the two-day joint faculty development program, “Critical Thinking Strategies for Health Professionals.” Led by Gerald Nosich, PhD, a noted authority on the subject, the workshop was designed to help teaching professionals engage their students in critical... More
Grant Awarded to Develop Methods for Diagnosing CTE During Life
Researchers from Boston University, the Cleveland Clinic, Banner Alzheimer’s Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, have been awarded a $16 million* grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH/NINDS). This seven-year, multi-center grant will be used to create methods for detecting and diagnosing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)... More
BUSM Expands Curriculum to Address Opioid Abuse
All Students Now Training in Addiction Prevention, Screening & Treatment Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has expanded the content covering opioid dependence and overdose as well as the training in prevention, screening and multidisciplinary treatment of substance abuse over each of the four years of the medical school’s curriculum in response to Massachusetts Governor Charlie... More
New Joint Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery-Medical Degree Program
Beginning in the summer of 2017, Boston University’s Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) and School of Medicine (BUSM) and will offer a new six-year program that combines the GSDM Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) residency program with an opportunity to earn a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Combining the OMFS residency program and... More
Dec. 16 Deadline: BU CTSI Mini-sabbaticals
The Boston University CTSI seeks to fund Mini-sabbaticals at other academic and research institutions. The Mini-sabbaticals are intended to encourage intellectual growth and multidisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration. The CTSI is planning to offer three (3) mini-sabbaticals annually. Mentored faculty, post doctoral scholars, project coordinators and research staff are eligible to apply. Applicants are required to identify... More
Three GSDM Researchers Receive CTSI Pilot Grants
Three Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) researchers have been awarded $20,000 each in Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) pilot funding. The GSDM researchers are Research Associate Professor Dr. Manish Bais, Research Associate Professor Dr. Ann Marie Egloff, and Professor Dr. John C. Samuelson. All three researchers are in GSDM’s... More
BUMC FedEx Print Center is Moving Dec. 1
The FedEx Office On-Campus Print Center is moving! The new print center will be located at 700 Albany St. (next to City Convenience). The existing print center, at 715 Albany St., will remain open for business through Nov. 30. The new print center location will be open for business on Dec. 2. Both print centers... More
Nov. 16 The Life Equation
Big data is coming to global health. But who should decide who lives and dies: Doctors on the front lines or a mathematical formula? Join emmy-winning filmmaker Rob Tinworth as he discusses the ethics surrounding data-driven health care. He will screen clips from his film 'The Life Equation ' a documentary film that follows extraordinary people making impossible... More
Nov. 17 Resilience and Mindfulness Workshop
Life is full of challenges. While we often have no choice over the challenges we encounter, we do have some control over how we respond. BUMC faculty and staff are invited to a free wellness workshop, Tuesday, Nov. 17. (Register at fitness@bu.edu) This presentation will focus on cultivating psychological resilience – the ability to cope effectively... More
GSDM Hosts Students And Faculty From Three Chinese Dental Schools
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) hosted students and faculty from three Schools of Stomatology in China this summer, during three separate 14-day visits. The visits were part of an ongoing Global Externship Exchange with three Chinese institutions that began in October 2013. The exchange allows fourth-year DMD students to spend... More
Dec. 9 BUMC Provost Guest Lecture
Extending a Hand: Dr. Salman Zarka on the humanitarian treatment of Syrian casualties in Israel Salman Zarka, MD, MPH, Director General of Ziv Medical Center, Safed, Israel Students, faculty and staff are invited to the BUMC Provost Guest Lecture on Dec. 9. Prior to his position at Ziv Medical Center, Dr. Zarka served as a Colonel in... More
An Extraordinary Concert
On Friday, Oct. 16, the BUMC Arts Lab, BUSM Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity, and the BMC Neurology Department hosted, “An Extraordinary Concert” – a creative collaboration between neurology patients and BUMC musicians. The concert is an opportunity for patients who have been successfully treated by the Department of Neurology to thank their care... More
BUMC Influenza (Flu) Vaccination Clinic Nov. 2
The Occupational Health Center will be offering an additional influenza (flu) vaccination clinic for those who were unable to attend the previously scheduled clinics. The vaccine is available at no cost to BUMC employees. We encourage you to protect yourselves and those around you during this flu season. For information regarding the 2015-2016 flu vaccine please... More
Oct. 29 Symposium: Ebola, The Disease and Immune Privilege
Medical Campus students, faculty and staff are invited to the “Ebola, The Disease, and Immune Privilege” symposium. Thursday, Oct. 29 1-6 p.m. BUSM Instructional Building, Hiebert Lounge The Symposium will feature guest speaker Ian Crozier, MD, an infectious disease specialist who while helping to fight against the Ebola outbreak in Kenema, Sierra Leone in August 2014, contracted the disease... More
Rocking with the BU Medical Campus Band
Ensemble fuses genres, fuels camaraderie In the video above, members of the BU Medical Campus Band perform and talk about the rewards of making music together. Photo by Esther Ro (COM'15) As everyone knows, getting into medical and dental school is fiercely competitive. And for those choosing academic medicine, that M.D. tacked to their name promises admission... More
Poverty Expert Sheldon Danziger to Give 2015 Bicknell Lecture
Economic inequality, not government programs, cause of stagnant poverty rate A generation ago, in a now-famous speech to Congress, President Ronald Reagan pronounced antipoverty programs an abject failure. “The government fought a War on Poverty, and poverty won,” he said. Critics of the War on Poverty (legislation first proposed by Lyndon Johnson in his 1964 State of the... More
BU Awarded $23.4 Million NIH Grant
For turning discoveries into treatments, diagnostics, improved health BU’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has been awarded a $23.4 million, four-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) renewal grant to train and support scientists across both campuses in conducting cutting-edge clinical research and turning their discoveries into treatments, diagnostics, and improved public health. CTSI is part of... More
BUMC Influenza (Flu) Vaccine Clinics Oct. 13, 15
The Occupational Health Center will be offering influenza vaccine at no cost to BUMC employees. We encourage you to get the vaccine during one of the scheduled clinics to not only protect yourself, but also your colleagues and your family. For information regarding the 2015-2016 flu vaccine please refer to the Occupational Health Center's website... More
GSDM Students and Faculty Volunteer at Local Book Fair
Five members of the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) community—three 4-year DMD students, one two-year Advanced Standing DMD student, and a faculty member—volunteered at the 29th Annual Charles C. Yancey Book Fair on July 25 at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center on Tremont Street. The Book Fair, which offered... More
The Power of Scholarships
Gratitude, excitement and anticipation – these three words describe the 2015 BUSM Scholarship Dinner on Thursday, Sept. 24. In a candle-lit room at the Hotel Commonwealth in Boston, 18 medical students gathered together to meet – for the first time – their scholarship donors. “Today is really important,” said Nick Smith, BUSM Class of 2016. “Getting to... More
New GSDM Students Gather for 2015 Professional Ceremony
Four-year DMD 19 and two-year AS DMD 17 students from Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) marked the end of their first week of orientation on Friday, July 31, at one of the most significant events in the educational careers of our dental students, the annual Professional Ceremony. The students marched into... More
Mental Health Clinic for Students Opens on Medical Campus
Twice-a-week Behavioral Medicine services A new Medical Campus mental health clinic, housed at the Soloman Carter Fuller Building, opened earlier this month and will be staffed on Mondays and Wednesdays by SHS Behavioral Health clinicians. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi Some years ago, a School of Public Health survey reported that half of Medical Campus students had... More
Peregrine Falcons Find a Home at the Medical Campus
High above Talbot Green a pair of watchful eyes scopes the concrete canyon below looking for its next prey. This isn’t a scene from Mission Impossible. It’s more like a National Geographic documentary. Perched on a window ledge atop the Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Building, two peregrine falcons have decided to make the BU Medical... More
Grant Preparation Workshops Begin Sept. 17
BU Medical Campus Investigators, graduate students and faculty members are invited to a grant preparation workshop on Thursday, Sept. 17 to learn more about the process of submitting individual research grants (R01) to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This workshop, which will be held on the BU Medical Campus, will include presentation by Sarah... More
BU Clinical and Translational Science Institute Renewed
Boston University's Clinical and Translational Science Institute, directed by David Center, MD has received a four-year, $23,487,980 renewal from the National Institutes of Health. David Felson, MD leads the section to train the next generation of translational scientists and George O'Connor, MD directs the clinical resources, which will facilitate the testing and translation of discoveries between... More