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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
2012 Perkins Award Winners Reception, May 1
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May 3 CSTI Lecture: Commercialization of Academic Discoveries and Enabling Patients to Benefit from Your Hard Work
As part of the Meet the CTSI monthly lecture series, the Medical Campus research community is invited to join Michael Pratt, Harald Steltzer and April Effort to learn about “Commercialization of Academic Discoveries and Enabling Patients to Benefit from Your Hard Work.” Each month the CTSI will introduce one or more of its faculty, clinicians, staff... More
Bicknell to Offer 'Lessons from a Life in Public Health' in Lecture
William J. Bicknell has brought his public health expertise to 62 countries and has the distinction of founding BUSPH's high-profile Department of International Health -- but ask him what drives his commitment to international health and he offers the simplest of explanations: "Because it's not nice for people to hurt. And most people can hurt less,"... More
GSDM's Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Hosts the 4th Donald F. Booth Education Day & “Return to Residency” Program
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery hosted the fourth Donald F. Booth Education Day & “Return to Residency” Program on April 11. The event featured two sessions, the first on Maxillofacial Surgery, and the second on Emerging Technologies and Modern Implantology. Three world-renowned speakers presented their work on a variety of topics related to the title of each... More
Perkins Award Winners Announced, Yearly Nod to Distinguished Staff Service
It’s a lot of work to keep and update the academic records of hundreds of medical students. Or to manage biochemistry research laboratories (especially when they’re under major renovation). Or to juggle a marketing campaign, a new software installation, and summer term administration. Three staffers have received one of the annual John S. Perkins Distinguished... More
Winners of GSDM’s 2012 Science Day Honored
The winners of GSDM’s 2012 Science Day were celebrated at a luncheon on April 10. Students who took first place in the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and post-doctoral fellow poster and oral presentation categories, and the winner of the ADA/Dentsply Award, were all presented with awards. Their posters decorated the perimeter of the Hiebert Lounge and attendees... More
BUSM’s Sean Palfrey, MD, FAAP, Named First Massachusetts CDC Childhood Immunization Champion
Sean Palfrey, MD, FAAP, professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at BUSM and BUSPH, and Director of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (MCAAP) Immunization initiative has been named the first Massachusetts recipient of the 2012 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Childhood Immunization Champion Award. Established this year by the... More
“My First Year at JAMA”, Editor-in-Chief Howard Bauchner, MD, Returns to BUMC as Alpert Lecturer
Save the date, May 17! Join Howard C. Bauchner, MD, Editor-in-Chief of JAMA and Scientific Publications and Multimedia Applications as he speaks on “My First Year at JAMA.” Dr. Bauchner was named Editor-in Chief on July 1, 2011, after serving as a faculty member of pediatrics and community health sciences on the Medical Campus for 25 years. He also served as the vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics at BMC/BUSM and assistant dean, alumni affairs and continuing medical education at BUSM. More
Boston University 2012-13 Keyword Initiative, RESILIENCE
Beginning in September, BU students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in a year of creative discussion and action on the theme of RESILIENCE as part of the College of Fine Arts Keyword Initiative. Each year a new keyword is selected and this is the second year of the project. Resilience is elasticity, buoyancy, More
BU Interdisciplinary Student Team Places in Emory Global Health Competition, also Wins Audience Choice Award
Boston University was well represented at the Emory Global Health Case Competition on March 31. The team of six included a medical student, an MD/MBA student, three MBA/MPH students and a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, placed second out of a roster of 23. This was the first year that BU has participated. The... More
BU Takes On Cancer: Finding Lung Tumors Sooner, Genes and Proteins May Be Early Warning System
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, it will kill about 160,000 people in 2012, more than the next four cancers combined. Avrum Spira wants to lower these numbers by diagnosing it earlier and preventing its development. For the last decade, Spira, a School of Medicine professor... More
BU Dentists Rock Out to Benefit BMC Food Pantry, BUMC Band Makes Guest Appearance
Join The Mental Blocks, a band composed of Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine faculty and students on Saturday, April 28, at a concert to benefit the Boston Medicine Center (BMC) Food Pantry and Demonstration Kitchen. BMC is the only hospital in Boston with a Food Demonstration Kitchen, which promotes nutrition and healthy eating. The... More