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Feb. 10 Public Health Forum, What Not to Eat: Foodborne Illness Update 2010
On Wednesday, February 10, join Barbara Mahon, MD, MPH, at the BUSPH Public Health Forum as she speaks about "What Not to Eat: Foodborne Illness Update 2010." Her presentation will give an overview of the current situation in foodborne illness, such as infectious diseases like salmonellosis, and then discuss how researchers know what foods are making... More
Broke a Tooth? Grow It Back
George Huang may just kill off the Tooth Fairy. Not to mention the makers of dental implants and crowns. The Herbert Schilder Chair in Endodontics and director of the postdoctoral program in endodontics at the School of Dental Medicine says there are valuable dental stem cells residing in baby teeth and third molars, also known as wisdom teeth. The cells remain viable for about a week after extraction if stored under the right conditions, but are at maximum potency just after they are removed. The dental stem cells from the discarded teeth can be used to regrow damaged or decayed parts of a mature tooth. More
Haitian Physician Receives William A. Hinton Award
Boston resident Michele David, MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, an immigrant from Haiti, has received the 2010 William A. Hinton Award. David was selected by Public Health Commissioner Dr. John Auerbach to receive this award in recognition of her many years of activism, commitment to public health and tireless work to educate others in order that... More
Dental Faculty Awarded Board Certification
Associate Professors Dr. Hatice Hasturk and Dr. I. Alpdogan Kantarci were both named Diplomates of the American Board of Periodontology in 2009. Dr. Hasturk received her certification in May and Dr. Kantarci completed his in November. The certification process involved comprehensive qualifying and oral examinations covering all phases of periodontal disease and its treatment, including dental... More
Jan. 27 Faculty Research Symposium: "Comparative Effectiveness Research: Fact or Fiction?"
Join Lewis Kazis, professor of health policy and management, as he presents his research "Comparative Effectiveness Research: Fact or Fiction?" at the BUSPH Faculty Research Symposium on Wednesday, January 27 at noon in BUSM Instructional Building, 72 East Concord Street, Room L-112. Members of the BUSPH community are invited to attend the Faculty Research Symposium series... More
BUSM Researchers Discover Pathway Responsible for Epigenetic Memory During Breast Cancer Progression
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have determined how the TGFβ-Smad signaling pathway, which is over activated in late-stage cancers, is responsible for the “epigenetic memory” that maintains unique patterns of regulatory DNA hypermethylation causing silencing of critical genes that facilitate breast cancer progression. The findings, which appear online in Cancer Research, More
Please Join in Bone Marrow Registry Monday, Jan. 25 ; a cheek swab is all it takes
A bone marrow registry is being held through the Be The Match Marrow Registry on Monday, January 25 from 11:30 am – 3 pm in the BUSM Instructional Building, room L-109A/B. A simple cheek swab is all that is needed to determine if you can help one of the thousands of patients in need of... More
Volunteer for Haiti, But Do It From Home
In the aftermath of the worst natural disaster in Haiti’s recorded history, dozens of BU’s medical and public health students, doctors, and nurses have been scrambling for ways to join the relief effort. But for at least for the next few months, said Monica Onyango, a School of Public Health international public health lecturer, most would be far more useful if they worked from home. More
BUSM, BMC Orthopaedic Surgeon Receives Prestigous Award from Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
Paul Tornetta III, MD, a professor and vice chairman in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the Director of Orthopaedic Trauma at Boston Medical Center, is the recipient of the 2010 Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation’s (OREF) Clinical Research Award. Tornetta received the recognition for the paper, “Setting... More
Gates Grant in Hand, BUSPH Researcher Prepares to Fight Newborn Mortality in Zambia
As an infectious disease specialist, Dr. David Hamer, an associate professor of international health at the BU School of Public Health, deals in people, not percentages. Still, when it comes to child mortality, the numbers weigh on Hamer's mind. In the plus column, the number of children who die before their fifth birthdays each year has fallen... More
Special Public Health Forum to Discuss Haiti Earthquake Disaster Jan. 20
Dean Robert Meenan announces a special Public Health Forum to discuss the unfolding disaster in the aftermath of the recent massive earthquake in Haiti. The forum, "The Aftermath of Haiti's Earthquake: Public Health's Role" will be held Wednesday, January 20 from 12:15 to 1:15 in BUSM Instructional building, room L-112. Meenan will moderate the forum, which will... More
Boston Premiere of the Alzheimer’s Disease Film: I Remember Better When I Paint
BUSM faculty will be participating in a panel discussion following the Boston premiere of I Remember Better When I Paint, an Alzheimer’s disease documentary on the impact of art on patients. The premiere will be held on January 12, at Boston University. The film focuses on the positive impact of art and other creative... More
BMC Names Kate Walsh as New President & CEO
Kate Walsh, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will become the next president and CEO of Boston Medical Center, the hospital announced today. Walsh, who has been at Brigham and Women’s Hospital for the past five years, was approved by a unanimous vote of BMC’s Board of Trustees on Jan. More
BUSPH Researcher Part of Team Awarded $150K for Antibiotics-Regulation Study
Access to effective antibiotics is critical to public health, but antibiotic resistance threatens to undermine many of the health gains from the past 60 years. Life in a post-antibiotic era would be rife with infectious diseases and many modern surgical procedures would be impossible. With that risk in mind, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)... More
NFL Players Association to Support Brain Trauma Research at Boston University
Collaboration Will Accelerate Groundbreaking Research on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy The National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) announced today that it will collaborate with the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) to support the Center’s efforts to advance the study of the effects of repetitive brain trauma in... More
The Healer’s Art: Exploring the Human Dimension of Medicine
Robert Saper, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, will give a lecture open to the entire BU Medical Campus Community entitled “The Healer’s Art: Exploring the Human Dimension of Medicine” on Monday January 11, 2010 from 11:00 am to 12 noon in the Medical School Building, Room L-112. Dr. Saper’s lecture will touch upon themes... More
Alzheimer's Disease Center Receives Donation from Build-a-Bear Huggable Hero
Boston University Academy sophomore Max Wallack, 13, of Natick, Mass., a recently named 2009 Build-A-Bear Huggable Hero, donated his $2,500 award to the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center. Established in 1996, the Alzheimer's Disease Center conducts cutting-edge research and strives to enhance clinical care for Alzheimer’s disease patients and their families. Wallack is the founder... More
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