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BUSPH Co-sponsoring COMET Conference, Abstracts Due Jan. 31
Boston University will be hosting the eighth international conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET) from June 28-30. This is the first time COMET will be held in the US. Dr. Barbara Bokhour, associate professor in the Health Policy and Management department at the School of Public Health and research health psychologist at the Center... More
Grand Rounds Presentation Leads to Engaging Discussion
Fourth-year DMD student Komail Abbas presented the second grand rounds of the 2009-2010 school year, based on a treatment plan he developed for a patient he treated during his externship rotation at Dorchester House from July 27 to October 2. Abbas' externship preceptor was Dr. Thomas Ricci. Abbas’ patient was a 37-year old Cape Verdean woman... More
Dec. 15 Seminar on Using FlowJo Software to Interpret Flow Cytometry Data
Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and other flow cytometry users on the BUMCare invited to attend a free introductory seminar on how to analyze flow cytometry experiments. The BUMC Flow Cytometry Core Facility is offering this seminar to help train new users in FlowJo software, which is a very valuable tool for handling multiparameter flow... More
Murnane Lab Identifies MMP Activity Indicating Colorectal Cancer
For more than 20 years, researchers from BUSM, under the direction of Mary Jo Murnane, have been working to identify and characterize markers that can either diagnose cancer at an early stage or better predict cancer outcomes. Such tumor markers may also prove useful in the design of new cancer therapies. The International Journal of... More
Dental Students Share Research
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Student Research Group (SRG) met with student research groups from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine on Friday, November 13 at Harvard. Two students from each school presented their research during the event. From GSDM Sheede Khalil DMD 12 presented... More
BUSPH-based Global Health Center Gets $8.5 Million Grant to Combat Neonatal Mortality
BU's Center for Global Health and Development, based at the School of Public Health, has won an $8.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a project that will test simple, low-cost methods that could save many of the 4 million newborns who die each year in the world’s poorest countries. The four-year... More
Dec. 9 BUSPH Public Health Forum: Personalized Genetic Medicine – Are We There Yet? The Alzheimer's Experience
On Wednesday, December 9, join Lindsay Farrer, PhD, chief of the Genetics Program at BU School of Medicine, as he presents the talk "Personalized Genetic Medicine…Are We There Yet? The Alzheimer's Experience" at the BUSPH Public Health Forum. Farrer, whose research mainly focuses on Alzheimer's disease, is also a professor of medicine, neurology, genetics and... More
BUSM Researchers Find Increased Dairy Intake Reduces Risk of Uterine Fibroids in Black Women
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center found that black women with high intake of dairy products have a reduced incidence of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids). This report, based on the Black Women’s Health Study, appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Uterine fibroids are benign tumors of... More
Dr. Paula Friedman Visits Russia and Poland with People to People
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, Director of Geriatrics and Gerontology, and Director of the Geriatric Dentistry Fellowship Program at GSDM Dr. Paula Friedman led a delegation of 14 dentists from across the US to St. Petersberg, Russia and Warsaw and Krakow, Poland as part of the People to People Ambassador Program. The purpose of the trip... More
Clapp on YouTube: A Wake-up Call to Combat Climate Change
Climate change is "the most important public health issue of the coming generation," according to BUSPH Environmental Health Professor Dick Clapp, who helped to plan a November fundraising event called "Boston Night to Combat Climate Change." In an interview available on YouTube, Clapp discusses the challenges of educating the American public – and his own students... More
BUSM Students Featured in Boston Magazine Top Doc's Issue
BUSM students Katie Spina, Andrea Girnius, John Cuaron and Joanna Ng are featured in the December 2009 Boston Magazine Best Doctors issue. Their story is titled The Doctors Are In (progress). Click on the BUSM student names above to see them and read each story. More
Annas Hammers Physicians' Role in Force-Feeding Gitmo Hunger Strikers
The practice of force-feeding hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay raises serious ethical questions about the role of physicians that need to be resolved at an official level, BUSPH Professor George Annas asserts in a new essay in The Lancet journal. Annas, chair and professor of health law, bioethics & human rights, writes about two new publications... More
Osamu Shimomura’s Serendipitous Nobel: Returning to BU, a chemist recounts a remarkable scientific journey
Osamu Shimomura stood quietly in front of a Medical Campus audience yesterday, slender shoulders slouched forward, eyes gazing down. More
Environmental Factors Sway Violence, Drug Use, Debra Furr-Holden Tells BUSPH Audience
"Disorder breeds disorder," read one of the slides that flashed on the screen at the Nov. 18 Public Health Forum, headlined: "Promising Environmental Approaches to Violence, Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention." More
BUSPH and Partners Awarded $1 Million to Tackle Tough "C.diff" Infection
A consortium led by the Boston University School of Public Health has been awarded a $1 million federal grant to test and evaluate interventions aimed at reducing the incidence of Clostridium difficile (or "C.diff") infections, a stubborn bacterial strain that most commonly affects older adults in hospitals and long-term care facilities. The U.S. Department of Health... More
GSDM DAB Member Sinkford Receives AAMC Herbert W. Nickens Award
American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Associate Executive Director and Director of the ADEA Center for Equity and Diversity Dr. Jeanne C. Sinkford received the 2009 Herbert W. Nickens Award on November 7 at the Association of American Medical College's (AAMC) annual meeting. The Herbert W. Nickens Award honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to... More
Wendy Mariner Named Utley Professor in Health Law
Wendy K. Mariner, professor of health law, bioethics and human rights at the Boston University School of Public Health has been appointed Edward R. Utley Professor in Health Law at Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH). Mariner's nomination to the endowed professorship by BUSPH Dean Robert Meenan was approved by University Provost David Campbell and... More
BUSPH-based Prevention Research Center Receives Five-Year Grant to Continue Work
The Partners in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center (PHH-PRC) -- a partnership between the BU School of Public Health, the Boston Housing Authority, the Boston Public Health Commission, and the Community Committee for Health Promotion -- has been awarded a five-year grant that will allow it to continue innovative programs to improve the health... More
Alani Named Chief and Chair of Dermatology
Rhoda M. Alani, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Dermatology, Herbert Mescon Chair and professor of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and chief of the Department of Dermatology at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She will assume these positions in January 2010. Prior to these appointments, Alani was a faculty member... More
GSDM on Twitter
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) is now on Twitter. Follow us @budental. For those of you without a Twitter account you can view budental tweets at our public page, http://twitter.com/budental, without signing up. We also want to know if you use Twitter. Please answer our quick poll on the GSDM Facebook page.
MBTA Allows Boston's School Children to Be Heavily Exposed to Alcohol Advertising, SPH Study Finds
While other cities have adopted bans on alcohol advertising on public transit systems, Boston's MBTA is allowing youths to be exposed heavily to such ads, some of which are designed to entice young people to drink, a new study by a team of Boston University School of Public Health researchers shows. The study, published online in... More
Nov. 18 Public Health Forum: Promising Approaches to Prevention
On Wednesday, November 18, join Debra Furr-Holden, assistant professor in the Mental Health Department at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as she presents a talk on "Promising Environmental Approaches to Violence, Alcohol, and Other Drug Prevention." Her presentation will look at the geographic distribution and determinants of violence, alcohol and other drug problems, and... More
BU ASDA Helps Students Prepare for Success
On November 6, the Boston University chapter of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) hosted a Success seminar given by Dr. Robert Madden titled, "Practice Management for Seniors." Dr. Madden is an experienced family dentist with a DDS degree from the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry and a MBA from the University of Colorado. More
Genome Science Institute Announces Award Winners
The Genome Science Institute held its inaugural Research Symposium, an interdisciplinary research symposium that explores genetic and genomic science, in the Boston University Medical Campus Hiebert Lounge on Thursday, Oct. 8. Sixty-three abstracts were submitted by students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty from Institutions throughout the Boston area. Prizes were awarded in undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral... More
Widespread Chemicals May Affect Cholesterol, Study Finds
A study by BU School of Public Health researchers, published ahead of print in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, suggests that polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) may affect serum cholesterol levels in people. The authors analyzed the relationship between serum concentrations of four PFCs-perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorononanoic acid (PFNA), perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS)-and... More