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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
BUMC on Forefront of Student Training of Military Veteran Medical Issues
In January 2012, BUSM was invited to the Joining Forces Initiative, a partnership with the White House, the Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and more than 100 medical schools. The collaboration provides veterans and their families with healthcare opportunities and support. It strengthens medical education on issues affecting military personnel such as post traumatic stress... More
Hemant Roy, MD Named Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology Jan. 1
The Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center announced that Hemant Roy, MD has been appointed Chief of the Section of Gastroenterology effective Jan. 1. Dr. Roy is currently Duckworth Professor of Cancer Research, Director of Research and Vice Chair of Northshore University Health System and Clinical Associate Professor... More
Nov. 8 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, kicks off on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 3 p.m. with a presentation on Molecular Motors in Brain Developmental Disease. This lecture is being given by Richard Vallee, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology; Director, Division of... More
GSDM Students Explore Culture and Clinic on Guatemala Externship
GSDM students Jennifer Rubin DMD 13 and Elizabeth Ponder DMD 13 volunteered for two weeks in Comitancillo, Guatemala (Comi), with Dentistry for All (DFA) and its founder, GSDM alum Brad Krusky DMD 93. The experience was educational in not only a clinical, but also a cultural sense. Rubin and Ponder immersed themselves in the traditional Mayan... More
BU CTSI Supports Early-Career-Stage Investigator Collaboration that Leads to National Multi-Site Study
There is a common catch-22 in research, particularly when examining new, novel pathways and nascent discoveries. Data are needed to support exploratory research hypotheses when submitting proposals for external funding, but funding is typically needed to collect data for testing preliminary hypotheses. Pilot grants funded by the BU Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) offer... More
BU Rated Seventh in US for “Employability”, 17th Worldwide
Boston University is 17th in the chart of universities around the world that were ranked based on the “employability” of their graduates according to a recent Boston Globe story. The chart, entitled "What the job market wants," was published by the New York Times, which said an online survey was compiled by Emerging, a... More
Nov. 2 Concert Given by Patients Treated by Neurology Department
The Department of Neurology in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs and the Medical Campus Arts Outreach Initiative present a concert: "When Patients Heal You.” This extraordinary concert features a group of talented patients who have been successfully treated by the Department of Neurology. Their musical performances, ranging from Nordic jazz, More
Second Year of Record Attendance for GSDM Alumni Reception Held at AAP Annual Meeting
On Oct.1, 75 alumni and friends of the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) gathered at the JW Marriott in Los Angeles for the School’s alumni reception held every year during the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) Annual Meeting. Professor and Chair of Periodontology & Oral Biology and Director of the Advanced... More
BUSM and BUSPH Students Learn About Neighborhood Services
In an effort to help incoming students learn more about businesses in the Medical Campus neighborhood, BU Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health (BUSPH) co-sponsored a vendor fair. Approximately 60 first-year BUSM MD and BUSPH students attended the 90-minute fair held Oct. 9 in Hiebert Lounge. “The vendor fair was a great opportunity to learn... More
BU Alzheimer’s Disease Center Receives Donation
Researchers studying Alzheimer’s disease at Boston University School of Medicine are the recipients of a donation resulting from a September fundraiser, "An Evening at the Arbors.” This event raised $15,000 for the BUSM Skip Curtis Fund, which was donated to the BU Alzheimer's Disease Center. The Skip Curtis Fund was established by Meg Curtis in... More
Car-Free Week Stats Are In!
TranSComm sponsored Car-Free Week (Sept. 17–23) with transportation organizations throughout the state. As part of Car-Free Week thousands of Massachusetts commuters traded their cars for more sustainable methods of travel that resulted in: 27,456 fewer car trips 319 tons of CO2 emissions prevented from entering the air 724,488 fewer miles driven 13,587 cars... More
GSDM Student Andrew Jorgensen Fulfills His Wish to Help People Smile
Andrew Jorgensen DMD 13 has recently received well-deserved attention for his service to the community at large and for his excellence as a dental student of the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM). Jorgensen was chosen as the first BU student to be presented on Boston University Provost Jean Morrison’s newly... More
Environmental Health Seminar: Occupational Heat-Related Illness, Oct. 12
As part of the BUSPH Department of Environmental Health’s seminar series, Climate Change: Science, Health, and Policy, Kathleen Fitzsimmons, MPH, will present on “Occupational Heat-Related Illness.” Ms. Fitzsimmons serves as Epidemiologist for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Workers represent a distinct population at risk for heat-related illness (HRI), considered to be a leading occupational health... More
BUSM Study Investigates Genetic Variants’ Role in Increasing Parkinson’s Disease Risk
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) investigators have led the first genome-wide evaluation of genetic variants associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The study, which is published online in PLOS ONE, points to the involvement of specific genes and alterations in their expression as influencing the risk for developing PD. Jeanne Latourelle, DSc, assistant professor of neurology... More
Oct. 10 Public Health Forum, Thought-Provoking ‘Death with Dignity’ Ballot Initiative
Marcia Angell, MD, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, is the featured speaker for the Wednesday, Oct. 10, Public Health Forum, which will take place from noon-1 p.m. in L-112, BUSM Instructional Building. Her talk, "Respecting the Autonomy of Dying Patients: The Massachusetts Death with Dignity Ballot Initiative,” focuses on Question 2, the... More