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BUSM Rises in U.S. News & World Report Annual Rankings
U.S. News & World Report ranked Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) 31st for best research medical school in the US. Up from its rank of 34th last year, BUSM tied Dartmouth and University of Alabama Medical School and ranks ahead of USC’s Keck School of Medicine, and Brown, Tufts and Georgetown medical schools. ... More
Register for World TB Symposium on Medical Campus March 22-23
Boston University School of Medicine; Boston Medical Center, Section of Infectious Diseases; and the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories are co-sponsoring the World TB Day Symposium March 22-23 on the Boston University Medical Campus. World TB Day is officially March 24, and it celebrates the discovery of the tubercle bacillus by Robert Koch in 1882. On March 24, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention release the latest data on global and U.S. tuberculosis epidemiology. This is the fourth year that TB investigators from the northeast have gathered for a scientific meeting to present their very latest research. More
GSDM Students Compete in First Annual District 1 Debate
GSDM dental debaters Mohamad Kamel DMD 13, Sameet Gill DMD 14, Marc Horton DMD 14, Darshit Shah DMD 13, Dhiren Agrawal DMD 13 and Julian Camastra DMD 15 faced off against dental students from Tufts University and Harvard University at the First Annual District 1 Debate, held at Tufts University on February 25. GSDM and... More
Study Finds Intrauterine Exposure to Cocaine, Tobacco or Marijuana Does Not Affect Academic Achievement Test Scores
Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health along with Boston Medical Center have found children’s academic achievement test scores not affected by intrauterine exposure to cocaine, tobacco or marijuana. However, alcohol exposure in children who had no evidence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) did lead to lower scores in math reasoning... More
Eye-Opening Journey to Haiti for GSDM Student
Fourth-year DMD student Thomas O’Connor hopes to become an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He has had his sights set on this goal since before he entered dental school. His father, Dr. Stephen O’Connor an ER doctor in O’Connor’s hometown of Jasper, Indiana, introduced him to Drs. Matthew Monesmith and Kyley Wood, two Jasper Oral and... More
The Role of Health Reform in Addressing Mental Health Disparities, March 29 Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Join David Satcher, MD, PhD, 16th U.S. Surgeon General and director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute as he presents on "The Role of Health Reform in Addressing Mental Health Disparities" at the Psychiatry Grand Rounds on Thursday, March 29, 2-3 p.m., in Keefer Auditorium. Dr. Satcher’s has deep experience in improving public health policy and... More
FSAO Provides Free, Confidential Counseling and Referrals for University Employees
The Faculty Staff Assistance Office (FSAO) is now open on the Boston University Medical Campus. FSAO provides University employees and their family members with free and confidential counseling and referrals for personal or work-related issues. Services are provided by the FSAO director, Bonnie Jean Teitleman and by Karen Brouhard, both of whom are licensed... More
Toastmasters Presentation Skills Seminar Open to Medical Campus, March 1
Would you like to make your presentations more effective? BUMC Toastmasters is offering a free seminar with actress and coach Amanda Good Hennessey to address common issues when making presentations. This seminar is open to everyone on the Medical Campus, you do not need to be a member of Toastmasters to attend. During this seminar... More
LOX-PP Shown to Have Therapeutic Potential According to GSDM Researchers
GSDM Professor and Director of Oral Biology Research Dr. Philip Trackman’s laboratory has taken their research on the tumor suppressor activity of the lysyl oxidase propeptide, LOX-PP, one step further, showing that LOX-PP could have potential as a therapeutic. In a paper published in early February by PLoS One, researchers show, “that the recombinant protein can... More
BUMC Offers Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
The Boston University Medical Campus opened new Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCS) at a ‘green’ ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 16 on the first level of the 710 Albany Street parking garage. The four fueling stations offer electricity for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, which are more environmentally conscious alternatives to gas. A brief speaking... More
Second Annual Shine Lecture Explores 'The Dark Side of Research' and the Influence of Money on Medicine
Carl Elliott, author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine, is the featured speaker at the Second Annual Cathy Shine Lecture and will present "The Dark Side of Research: Exploitation in Clinical Trials." Elliott's research offers surprising examples of the influence of market forces on medicine. His studies of clinical trials reveal what physicians may not know -- from a university's refusal to investigate a student's death to the source of research subjects recruited by commercial companies. A physician and bioethicist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Elliott is also respected as a courageous social commentator, with articles like "Guinea Pigging" in the New Yorker. More
Science as Art
Last fall, Karen Antman, MD, Provost, BU Medical Campus, and Dean, BUSM, requested submissions from the Medical Campus community for images derived from science that would be displayed as art throughout the campus. A variety of intricate and striking images rolled out of the laboratories of the campus scientists. Faculty members, postdocs and students all... More
Identifying an “Achilles’ Heel” in Colon Cancer
Over 1 million cases of colon cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year resulting in approximately 600,000 deaths annually. Disease-causing mutations in the KRAS gene are found in over half of these cases. In the United States, colon cancer patients are routinely genotyped for KRAS gene mutations and those with mutations are excluded from receiving novel “targeted”... More
American College of Dentists Honors Sheede Khalil DMD ‘12
Sheede Khalil DMD '12 was presented with the American College of Dentists (ACD) Senior Student Award at a luncheon held on Saturday, January 28, at Yankee Dental Congress 37. Khalil was selected because of her outstanding achievements in academics, leadership, and initiative. Khalil came to GSDM as a technical assistant in the lab of Associate Dean... More
Abstracts Sought for 2012 McCahan Education Day
SAVE THE DATE: Medical Campus Education Day, May 23 BUMC faculty, fellows, residents, students and staff are invited to submit proposals for workshops and abstracts of ongoing or completed education projects. Learn new teaching skills and knowledge of education scholarship by attending workshops, viewing posters and hearing presentations about educational innovation, research and scholarship. John... More
Is Pornography a Public Health Issue? SPH Forum Considers Both Sides
n Catharine MacKinnon’s 1993 treatise Only Words, the feminist scholar writes that “the law of equality and the law of freedom of speech are on a collision course in this country.” This semester, students at the School of Public Health are examining that collision through an unusual lens—not through the study of law or human rights, but through a lesson in hard-core pornography. More
BUSM Professor Lewis Weintraub Recognized by BMC, Long-time Physician Honored for Excellence
Lewis Weintraub, MD, a Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and a BMC Hematologist/Oncologist and, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence. The Jerome Klein Award was established in 2010 to commemorate Dr. Klein’s 50 years of service to BMC/BUSM and is presented annually to... More
Teaching Doctors How to Close Life’s Last Door
At age 78, Charles Swanigan could jog three miles at a stretch. One year later, with the prostate cancer he had battled for a decade spread throughout his body, he could hardly move. Just getting out of bed, he tells his doctor and two BU School of Medicine students paying him an autumn house call, More
GSDM Holds Inaugural Research Retreat
The Inaugural Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine Research Retreat was held on Feb. 2, in the Hiebert Lounge. The Retreat was put on by the Office of the Associate Dean for Research, and Associate Dean for Research Maria Kukuruzinska served as host. The event included updates on research from many departments... More
Attend Feb. 21 CTSI Drug & Device Development Seminar, “Partnering With Industry: How to Do It and What Does Industry Want”
Join Charles Wilson, PhD as he discusses Partnering with industry: How to do it and what does industry want. Dr. Wilson serves as Vice President and Global Head of Strategic Alliances, leading the group responsible for externally oriented research at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), the business unit of Novartis responsible for... More
BUMC Toastmasters Club Chapter Inaugurated
The Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) has formally established a chapter of Toastmasters International. More than 30 faculty, staff and students attended the charter celebration on Thursday, Jan. 19. Toastmasters is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of meeting locations. “We are excited to sponsor this opportunity... More
Decent Care: Option or Necessity? — Topic of Feb 8 Public Health Forum
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, BUSPH and the Center for Global Health & Development will host The Reverend Canon Ted Karpf, ThM, as the featured speaker for the February Public Health Forum. The Reverend Karpf is the Director of Development and Alumni Relatons of the BU School of Theology and was Partnerships Officer at the World Health... More
GSDM Students Discover One-of-a-Kind Learning Experience in Guatemala
Three fourth-year dental students: Melissa Lowry, Dee Gulis and Lucinda Barry recently returned from a trip to Poptun, Guatemala with LIGA International. The trip took place Jan.12-23. While in Guatemala the students, along with alum Kevin Acone DMD ‘07, and trip organizer Dr. Fred Kalinoff, spent five days treating patients of various ages in... More
NEIDL Goes Public: BU Biosafety Labs Offer Tours to Press, Politicians
John R. Murphy and Ronald Corley may be the most highly educated tour guides in Boston. Murphy, a School of Medicine professor of medicine and microbiology, researches the ways that bacterial protein toxins get into cells. Corley, a MED professor and chair of microbiology, investigates immune responses to viruses. But much of their time recently has... More
PCE in Drinking Water Linked to Increased Risk of Mental Illness
Early childhood exposure to water contaminated with the solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE) increases the risks of bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study by BU School of Public Health researchers has found. More