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Register for the Fifth Annual BUMC John McCahan Education Day
Boston University's Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Dental Medicine and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences are proudly sponsoring the Fifth Annual John McCahan Education Day on June 11. The purpose of the event is to showcase and enhance educational innovations, scholarship and research across the Boston University Medical Campus. All faculty, students, residents, fellows and... More
GSDM’s Dr. Paula Friedman to Lead Massachusetts Dental Society
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives Dr. Paula Friedman was recently elected to the role of Vice President of the Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS). She will serve as VP, then advance to President-Elect, followed by President. Each is a one year appointment. Dr. Friedman has been involved with MDS on some level since 1978, but it was... More
BUSPH Co-Hosts International Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics June 28-30
On June 28-30, Boston University School of Public Health will co-host the eighth annual Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) Conference. COMET brings together healthcare practitioners, public health professionals and researchers from a wide range of social science disciplines concerned with issues of communication and ethics in the fields of health care and the human and social... More
CityLab Garners National Honor
Boston University School of Medicine’s CityLab program was cited by the Center for Excellence in Education as an exemplary program at the National Labs Skills Symposium in Washington, DC. CityLab is a biotechnology learning laboratory for students in grades 7 – 12 and their teachers. Established in 1992, BUSM CityLab is an innovative, laboratory-based science education... More
GSDM Resident Takes Top Honors at Boston Periodontal Residents Meeting
The Boston Periodontal Residents Meeting hosted by Tufts University School of Dental Medicine welcomed periodontal residents from Tufts, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM), and Harvard School of Dental Medicine. GSDM resident Srinivas Ayilavarapu DSC 08, PERIO 10 won the research poster award for his work titled, "Novel Inflammatory Pathways in Diabetes... More
Study Finds Fat Around the Abdomen Associated with Smaller, Older Brains in Middle-aged Adults
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found a significant association between abdominal fat and lower total brain volume. The study, which currently appears in the Annals of Neurology, may improve understanding of the mechanisms underlying the relationship of obesity with dementia and could lead to prevention strategies. Global body mass and obesity, particularly... More
Finishing What She Started: BUSPH Alumna Receives Fulbright Scholarship to Continue Pesticide Exposure Research in Brazil
Boston University School of Public Health alumna Serena Arancibia, MPH '10, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study the health risk perceptions female agricultural workers in Brazil have about their exposure to pesticides. Brazil is one of the world's top consumers of pesticides, according to the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency. A report issued by... More
GSDM Honors Graduates at 46th Annual Commencement
On Friday, May 14, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) honored new graduates at the School's 46th commencement held at the Track & Tennis Center. The late afternoon ceremony had 188 DMD and 72 postdoctoral student participants. Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter began the ceremony by welcoming the graduating students, family and friends, More
190 School of Medicine Grads Commence Careers in Health Sciences
“‘Now is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end,’” said Karen Antman, MD, Dean of the School of Medicine and Provost of the Medical Campus, quoting Winston Churchill as she opened the 163rd MED commencement Saturday at Agganis Arena. “‘But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’ “This is the commencement... More
Called to Service, BUSPH Class of 2010 Pledges to Improve Public Health
Commitment, determination, leadership, and the refusal to buy into a culture of "no" -- these were the watchwords bestowed on graduates of Boston University School of Public Health by speakers at yesterday's 2010 commencement ceremony. Hundreds of family and friends joined the newly minted master's and doctoral degree recipients at the Boston Convention Center, as... More
Quiet Donors of MED’s Largest-Ever Gift Step Forward: $10.5M for the Dahod Breast Cancer Research Center
In August 2008, a Boston University School of Medicine alumna pledged $10.5 million to her school — the largest gift in its history. But she chose to remain anonymous. Now, more than a year and a half later, University Overseer Shamim Dahod (CGS’76, CAS’78, MED’87) and her husband, Ashraf, are putting a face — or more accurately, two faces — on their contribution, which will establish the Shamim and Ashraf Dahod Breast Cancer Research Center at the School of Medicine. The gift will also endow assistant professor and international scholar positions at the center and support MED’s new residence hall. More
GSDM Volunteers Reach Out to Local Haitians
On April 10, Clinical Instructor Dr. Oscar Ortiz-Urrego led a team of student volunteers to the 4th Annual Inite Pou La Sante United for Health Fair. The fair was held at the Voice of the Gospel Tabernacle in Mattapan. Fair services included health and nutrition counseling, cancer education, blood pressure checks, diabetes screening, eye exams, and... More
Osamu Shimomura to Be Honored at Commencement Nobel-winning chemist will receive Doctor of Science
Osamu Shimomura, a Nobel Prize–winning chemist and a School of Medicine professor emeritus of physiology, will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Science at the Boston University’s 137th Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Shimomura, a former senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., was one of three winners of the... More
Being Obese Can Attract Bullies, New Study Says
Obese children are more likely to be bullied regardless of gender, race, socioeconomic status, social skills or academic achievement, according to a new study led by a University of Michigan researcher and co-authored by Danielle Appugliese, research manager of BUSPH's Data Coordinating Center. The study, published online in the journal Pediatrics, concludes that being obese, by... More
Mey Al-Habib DScD 12, ENDO 14 Receives AAE Foundation Research Grant
Mey Al-Habib DScD 12, ENDO 14 was recently awarded an American Association of Endodontists (AAE) Foundation research grant in the amount of $32,250. The grant supports her research proposal titled, "Characterization of Subpopulations of Dental Pulp Stem Cells." Dr. Al-Habib is working on this research with her research advisor and mentor Herbert Schilder Professor in Endodontics... More
MacArthur Fellow Wafaa El-Sadr to Deliver 2010 BUSPH Commencement Address
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) and director of the Global Health Initiative at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, will address graduates and their families May 16 at the Boston University School of Public Health 2010 commencement ceremony. For two decades, Dr. El-Sadr served... More
Learn About In Vivo Imaging With Fluorescent and Bioluminescent Light Using IVIS
Join Anna Studwell, IVIS Core Technician/Manager on Monday, May 24, as she presents an introduction to In Vivo Imaging. This presentation covers the basic science behind bioluminescent and fluorescent imaging, a description of the imaging hardware, and an overview of analysis techniques using Living Image software. Researchers interested in tracking cancer cell metastasis and tumor... More
BUSM Researchers Seek to Understand Racial Disparities in Treatment Intensification for Hypertension Management
Are disparities in blood pressure a function of differences in treatment intensification (TI)? Treatment intensification is when providers initiate and intensify therapy for patients with elevated blood pressure. It is complex and includes discussions between patients and providers. BUSM researchers, Meredith Manze, MPH, Adam Rose, MD, MSc, Michelle B. Orner, MPH, Dan Berlowitz, MD, More
Proposed State Budget Cuts Could Impact Patient Care and Clinical Education at GSDM
On April 14, the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ways & Means released a fiscal year 2011 budget which calls for cuts to MassHealth adult dental benefits. These cuts would eliminate restorative services for the 700,000 adults on MassHealth and leave extractions as the only course of treatment for those in need of dental care. Although... More
SPH Epidemiology Student Wins Dean's Award at BU Science and Engineering Day
Krista Huybrechts, a doctoral candidate in epidemiology, has been honored with the School of Public Health Dean's Award for research she is conducting on the safety of psychotropic medications used in older residents living in nursing homes. The award was presented at the 2010 BU Science and Engineering Day. Huybrechts was one of a dozen BU... More
Dr. Jonathan Woodson nominated by President Barack Obama to be assistant secretary of defense for health affairs
Jonathan Woodson has been named assistant secretary of defense for health affairs for the U.S. Department of Defense by President Obama. His nomination requires U.S. Senate confirmation. Associate dean for diversity and multicultural affairs and associate professor of surgery at BUSM, and senior attending vascular surgeon at BMC, Woodson holds the rank of brigadier general in... More
NFL Gives $1 Million to BUSM’s CSTE to Study Long-term Impact of Brain Injuries in Football
The National Football League (NFL) will give a $1 million unrestricted gift to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine to support the Center’s research. More
BUSM's Goldstein Wins Hartwell Award for Genetics Research
For decades, Richard Goldstein has been trying to unlock a genetic puzzle that holds the secret to a more effective vaccine for a pneumonia strain that kills more than a million children a year worldwide. For his work, the BU School of Medicine professor of pediatrics was recently awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant from the... More
Pakistani Delegation Visits BUSPH to Discuss Gender-Based Violence
Despite the media hype around a proposed new law in Pakistan that would ban domestic violence, a delegation of Pakistani legal experts and women's rights activists who came to the Boston University School of Public Health April 14 to meet with Associate Professor Anita Raj said women remain undervalued and underserved in their country. "The government... More
Joseph Flaherty DMD 10 Presents Intriguing Grand Rounds
Joseph Flaherty DMD 10 presented “Restoration of Four Endodontically Treated Maxillary Incisors,” at Grand Rounds on April 14. Professor and Chair of General Dentistry Dr. Judith Jones, Professor Dr. Carl McManama, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Dr. Cataldo Leone, and Dean Jeffrey W. Hutter hosted Grand Rounds, located in room 301 of the Dental School. Flaherty... More