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BU Awards Community Grants Supporting Youth Organizations in South End and Roxbury
Boston University today announced two grants of $2,500 to local community organizations offering programs and services that benefit youth in the South End and Roxbury. The two recipients are Boston City Lights and Mandela Resident Cooperative Association, Inc. (MRCA). These organizations work to make a difference in the lives of young people in Boston. Boston... More
NIH Concludes that BU Biolab Poses Minimal Risk to Community, Decision Comes After Thorough and Comprehensive Analysis
On Jan. 2, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a Supplemental Record of Decision on Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) affirming that the lab poses minimal risk to the surrounding community. The issuance of the Supplemental Record of Decision, published in the Federal Register, follows a thorough and comprehensive analysis by distinguished... More
Barbara Gilchrest Named 2012 Charter Fellow by National Academy of Inventors
Barbara Gilchrest, MD, professor and Chair Emeritus of the department of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and dermatologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been named a 2012 Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Gilchrest is among four faculty members at Boston University nominated to the NAI in 2012. This... More
BU Medical Campus Early Education Center Now Enrolling
Little Sprouts a child-care and early-education center on the ground floor of the Medical Student Residence at 815 Albany St., is now open. Toddler and preschool openings are available and priority will be given to BU Medical Campus employees and students, members of the BUMC Residency Programs, BU Charles River Campus employees and Boston Medical... More
GSDM Faculty Awarded Inaugural Seed Grants
The Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) named three faculty members as winners of the inaugural Seed Funding Competition. GSDM’s Research Endowment Fund awarded the 2012 winners $15,000 each in grant funds to enhance research at the school. These grants are intended primarily to support new investigators but can also be used... More
BUSM, BMC Faculty Member Receives Award for Physician Excellence
Edward Bernstein, MD, vice chair of academic affairs and professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and an emergency medicine physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been named the recipient of the 2012 Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence. Selected by a senior committee of BUSM and BMC physicians, the... More
GMS Classes Participate in Dec. 19 Emergency Management Drill, Bakst Auditorium
An emergency management exercise will be taking place in Bakst auditorium on Dec. 19, 1-6 p.m. Response activity may be visible from the areas adjacent to the Bakst including the Instructional building lobby, the hallway between the lobby and Bakst and rooms L109, L110, L111, L112. This drill is the final examination for two GMS... More
Study Identifies Improved Method for Assessing Endoscopists’ Skills
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) have published a study identifying a better method for grading endoscopists, physicians who perform colonoscopies. Their findings were recently published online in the journal Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Through screening colonoscopies, endoscopists are able to identify and remove pre-cancerous adenomas, ultimately reducing the rate of... More
Peace Corps Director Honors BUSPH Master’s International Program
The Peace Corps has gone through myriad changes since its founding in 1961, adapting to issues of the times ranging from AIDS to education to new market economies. But one thing hasn't changed, according to Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet: "It is, without question, for most people, the best thing they ever did." Hessler-Radelet came to... More
Dec. 11 Emergency Drill Planned for NEIDL
On Dec. 11, BU will be conducting a discussion-based exercise at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL). Researchers, facility staff, local health officials and first responders will be testing and reviewing the response to a variety of medical incident scenarios. This exercise is part of the NEIDL’s ongoing safety and training program. Participants... More
Dec. 12 Dermatology Lecture featuring Dr. Zhi Liu
Zhi Liu, PhD, Professor of Dermatology, Microbiology and Immunology, Director of Dermatology Laboratories, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, will be speaking on BP180/type XVII Collagen in Skin Autoimmunity and Tumorigenesis. For the past sixteen years, Dr. Liu has focused his research on understanding the immunopathogenesis of bullous pemphigoid using animal models developed... More
BUSM CME Program Reviewed as Superior
BUSM’s Office of Continuing Medical Education (CME) has completed two accreditation reviews and one random audit as part of our external evaluation process with the following results: The Accrediting Council of Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) - “Accreditation with Commendation.” The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) - “Accreditation with Distinction, the highest recognition awarded by the American... More
Nobel Laureate Jack W. Szostak Speaking on BUMC Dec. 18
Jack W. Szostak, PhD, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Howard Hughes Investigator, who together with colleagues was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of how telomeres protect chromosomes, will be speaking... More
Dec. 6 Fall 2012 Thematic Seminar Series Lecture: The Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease
The Fall 2012 Thematic Seminar Series, which focuses on the Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease, concludes on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m. with a presentation on Guarding the genome: centromeres, aneuploidy and tumorigenesis. This lecture is being given by Don W. Cleveland, PhD, Departmental Chair of Cellular & Molecular Medicine Professor of Medicine, Neurosciences... More
BU-Led Research Maps the Route to Dementia: Largest-ever study of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
The youngest weren’t even old enough to drink legally—six high school football players who developed the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) before dying. Their brains were among 68 cases in a new, largest-of-its kind study that describes for the first time four progressive stages of CTE. Published today in the journal Brain, the study... More
Healthcare Providers Can Play Critical Role in Reducing and Preventing Intimate Partner Violence
In a perspective article appearing in the Nov. 29 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health (BUSM and BUSPH) report that health-care providers can play a critical role in helping to reduce and prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) by screening and referring patients to... More
Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Course on BUMC, Register Today
The Boston University Police Department offers the “Rape Aggression Defense” program (RAD) specifically for women desiring to physically protect themselves against rape and other forms of violence. The course is taught by RAD-certified BUPD instructors over a 20-hour course. The RAD system is a realistic self-defense program of defensive tactics, techniques and education. It is a... More
JAMA article advocates for federal leadership in combatting opioid overdoses
In the November 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), medical clinicians and researchers advocate for new techniques to fight drug overdoses. Alexander Walley, MD, MSc, assistant professor at Boston University School of Medicine, co-authored the article with Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH, assistant professor at Northeastern University School of Law and... More
Challenges Become Opportunities on GSDM Mexico Mission
As you might imagine, coordinating an international externship is a feat when unexpected challenges happen. That was the case when Erik Engelbrektson, Patrick Moore, and Josephine Verde, all GSDM DMD 13, set out for San Blas, Mexico, Oct. 4-15, with LIGA International. Mission supervisor Dr. Fred Kalinoff was forced to cancel his trip last... More
Detecting Lung Cancer Sooner
For the last decade, Avrum Spira, MD, MSc, a BUSM professor of medicine, pathology, and bioinformatics and a pulmonologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has worked to develop molecular tests that detect lung cancer early. Now, with a $13.7 million grant from the Department of Defense, he is carrying the research forward as leader of... More
Local Hero Deployed to Aid Victims, Search and Rescue Teams in Hurricane Sandy
Since the devastation of areas of New York and New Jersey caused by Hurricane Sandy, rescue teams from all over the country have been deployed to help. Ricky Kue, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and emergency medicine physician at Boston Medical Center (BMC) is one of those... More
BUSM Lecture Honors Alumni, Victim of 9/11 Tragedy
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) will present the 11th annual Sue Kim Hanson Lecture in Immunology at noon, Friday, Nov.16, in the School of Medicine’s Keefer Auditorium. The annual lecture honors Sue Kim Hanson, MA, and PhD ’02, a former researcher in BUSM’s Pulmonary Center. Hanson, her husband and their daughter were passengers on... More
Nov. 15 Fall 2012 Thematic Seminar Series Lecture: The Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease
The Fall 2012 Thematic Seminar Series, which focuses on The Cytoskeleton in Health and Disease, continues on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 3 p.m. with a presentation "Using Human Stem Cells to Understand Neurodegenerative Disease." This lecture is being given by Lawrence Goldstein, PhD, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Distinguished Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular... More
BUSPH Research Day Nov. 14
On Nov. 14, the BU School of Public Health will hold its Inaugural Research Day, featuring examples of the first-rate research and scholarship being conducted at the school by its students, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty. Research and scholarship are central to the mission of the School of Public Health and occur in multiple areas, including... More
When Patients Heal You: BUMC Arts Outreach Initiative
A unique collaboration among the department of Neurology, the BU School of Medicine Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs and the BU Medical Campus Arts Outreach Initiative resulted in an extraordinary concert on the Medical Campus in early November. The concert, When Patients Heal You, featured a group of six talented performers, all patients successfully... More