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SURP Empowers Budding Undergraduate Research Scientists
What is SURP? SURP is the Summer Undergraduate Research Program, a ten week research and mentoring experience with Division of Graduate Medical Sciences faculty. The cohort is academically talented students from underrepresented and disadvantaged backgrounds who are interested in preparing for professional roles as research scientists . SURP was launched in the summer of 2010 under the leadership of Associate Provost Linda Hyman, PhD. In addition to a mentored research experience, students attend weekly science talks, participate in a journal club, go on science-oriented field trips, and present their research in a summer research symposium. The 2012 symposium will be held on Aug. 2. More
June 19 Workshop, Working in a Multicultural Group
The Graduate Medical Sciences Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is pleased to host Anne P. Copeland, PhD, founder and cxecutive director of The Interchange Institute, a non-profit organization focused on the understanding and support of people and organizations in intercultural transition. She will conduct a workshop on Working in a Multicultural Group, Tuesday, June 19... More
BUMC Study Finds Mass. Health Reform Leads to Increased Inpatient Surgical Procedures
Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health (BUSM, BUSPH), along with the VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, have found inpatient medical procedures increased more among non-elderly, lower- and medium- income populations, Hispanics and whites, after health care reform went into effect in Massachusetts. The findings, which currently appear in... More
Attend TBI/PTSI Lecture, Reception, Poster Session, June 28
In honor of Naval Week, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the VA Boston are holding the inaugural Joining Forces United Front Consortium TBI/PTSI Lecture Series. Of particular note is a lecture on "The Naval Response to TBI and PTSD” presented by Rear Admiral Elaine Wagner, DDS and neurologist James P. Kelly, MD. ... More
GSDM Employee Recognition Reception Recognizes Long-Serving Faculty and Staff
On May 29, Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter and Mrs. Kathy Hutter hosted a reception honoring Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) retirees and those that have served the School for 25 years. “As we acknowledge and recount all that these individuals do to contribute to the success of our students, patients, and... More
BUMC Researchers Find Alcohol Plays No Role in Disclosing HIV Status Among Russians
Disclosure of HIV positive serostatus to sexual partners is considered an important public health goal to prevent new infections. Disclosure can motivate sex partners to make informed choices and change behavior through negotiation of safer sex practices. It might also prompt partner testing and counseling. A team of Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) researchers representing the... More
William Bicknell, Iconoclastic International Health Professor, 1936-2012
Dr. William J. Bicknell, an outspoken, inspirational professor of international health who sought to "make people hurt less," has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 75. Bicknell, who died Tuesday night at his home in Marshfield, Mass., was the founder and chair emeritus of the Department of International Health at the School of... More
CGHD’s Simon Presents Malaria Report to Congress – Research team finds PMI program “very successful”
The CGHD’s Jonathon Simon, who with a team of researchers collaborated on a top-level evaluation of the President’s Malaria Initiative, will give a presentation today on Capitol Hill on the findings, hosted by two Congressional caucuses. In Rwanda, a network of 60,000 community health workers trained in managing malaria has been credited with helping to reduce... More
GSDM Commencement Holds Special Significance for Many
On Friday, May 19, 2012, GSDM honored new graduates at the School’s 48th annual Convocation. The late afternoon ceremony boasted approximately 190 DMD and 77 post-doctoral student participants. Dean of Marsh Chapel Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill began the ceremony with an invocation. Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter followed by welcoming the graduating students, family and friends, More
Tsuneya Ikezu to Participate in Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Symposia
Tsuneya Ikezu, PhD has been invited to participate in the satellite symposia of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) "Cognitive Enhancement in Health and Disease," taking place in Spain in July. He will speak on “Enhancement of Neurogenesis and Cognitive Function by Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Gene Therapy in Animal Models of Alzheimer's.” This event is designed... More
Twenty-four Graduating Students and Two Faculty Members Join Ranks of National Honor Dental Society OKU
The GSDM Lambda Mu Chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor Society (OKU) held its 5th annual OKU Induction Ceremony on May 10, at the BU Trustee Ballroom. The induction was presided over by Dean Jeffrey Hutter and OKU chapter President Dr. Stephen Polins and Secretary Ms. Catherine Sarkis. Students inducted into OKU included: Shruti... More
Hui Feng Named Plenary Session Presenter at International Genetics Meeting
Hui Feng, MD, PhD will be a plenary session presenter at the International Zebrafish Genetics and Development Meeting being held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in June. Dr. Feng will be speaking on Zebrafish Genetic Screens Identify DLST as a Potential Novel Therapeutic Target of Human Acute T-Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma. She is the director of... More
238 Degrees Conferred at BUSM’s 165th Commencement
As a sea of red robes envelopes the Boston University Charles River Campus during commencement weekend, the MD and PhD graduates of the School of Medicine and its Division of Graduate Medical Sciences stand out with their dark green and deep blue lapels and hoods that signify their course of study. For the 238... More
Graduates Urged to Reposition Public Health as a 'Big Voice' in Health Care
They will be called many things as they head out into the world with their public health degrees -- dreamers, do-gooders, idealists. But as they received their diplomas Saturday night, the BU School of Public Health Class of 2012 was called upon to show some muscle. "You're the Rodney Dangerfield of all professions. You don't get... More
March with BUMC at the Boston LGBT Pride Parade, June 9
The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs invites the BUMC community to march with "PRIDE" and show support for LGBT students, faculty and staff in the Annual Boston LGBT Pride Parade on Saturday, June 9. Showing your support for LGBT friends and colleagues reaffirms our openness and strengthens the diverse fabric of our institution. “The parade... More
Study Shows First Case Series of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Blast-Exposed Military Service Personnel and Mechanism of Injury in Blast Neurotrauma
nvestigators from Boston University (BU) and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System have shown evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in brain tissue from blast-exposed military service personnel. Laboratory experiments conducted by the investigators demonstrated that exposure to a single blast equivalent to a typical improvised explosive device (IED) results in CTE and long-term brain impairments that accompany the disease. They also found that the blast wind, not the shock wave, from the IED blast leads to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and long-term consequences, including CTE. More
Researcher, Surgical Oncologist Receives National Award
Maureen T. Kavanah, MD, an Associate Professor of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and a surgical oncologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has received the prestigious 2012 National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Distinguished Investigator Lifetime Achievement Award for her extraordinary contributions and meritorious service to the NSABP in support... More
MED’s Robert Lowe a Metcalf Award Winner: Teaching students how to be empathetic physicians
As a kid in New York City, Robert C. Lowe always knew he wanted to be a doctor. Teaching, however, never crossed his mind, he says, because he wasn’t the best public speaker in high school and college. Fast forward several decades to 2010, when the School of Medicine’s graduating class selected the associate professor of... More
May 22 CTSI Lecture: Clinical Research Resources and Facilities
As part of the Meet the CTSI monthly lecture series, the Medical Campus research community is invited to join Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, Mary-Tara Roth, RN, Linda Rosen, Mary Aldrich, RN and Kimberly Russell-Lucas, MPH, CCRP to learn about “Clinical Research Resources and Facilities.” Each month the CTSI will introduce one or more of its faculty, More
BUMC Housing Fair June 8
Do you need to find a roommate, an apartment, or someone to sublet your place? The annual BUMC Housing Fair is free and open to the BUMC community including current and incoming students to the schools of Medicine, Public Health, Dental Medicine and division of Graduate Medical Sciences. The fair offers a great... More
BUSM Student Selected as Boston Schweitzer Fellow
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) postgraduate student Simone Ellis has been selected as a 2012 Boston Schweitzer Fellow. Over the next year Ellis and 15 other local graduate students will learn to effectively address the social factors that impact health while developing leadership skills. The fellows will partner with community organizations to develop and implement... More
Register for John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day, May 23
Don’t miss the seventh annual John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day on May 23. This all day event is sponsored by Boston University’s Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Public Health, and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences. Medical Campus Education Day allows members of the Medical Campus to showcase their scholarly activities in education. Faculty, More
Douglas Faller Receives Grant to Research Melanoma
Douglas V. Faller, MD, director of the Boston University/Boston Medical Center Cancer Research Center, has been awarded a research grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA). The grant will help Faller, professor of medicine, biochemistry, pediatrics, microbiology, pathology and laboratory medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), continue his research focused on uncovering novel, More
BUSM’s Lowe to Receive Metcalf Award
Robert C. Lowe, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Education Director for the Section of Gastroenterology at Boston Medical Center, will be presented with a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Commencement exercises on May 20. “This is one of the University's highest teaching awards, and we are honored that Dr. Lowe will be recognized... More
May 10 Psychiatry Grand Rounds, “Stigma: Lessons and New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness”
“Stigma: Lessons and New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness,” will be the topic of the May 10 Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Bernice A. Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research will be the guest speaker. Professor Pescosolido received a... More