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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
Nobel Prize Winner Shimomura to Speak on BUMC, Nov. 17
Osamu Shimomura, PhD, BUSM Professor Emeritus and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will address the BU Medical Campus community on November 17, 2009. He will speak on "Discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP: My Nobel Prize Lecture." More
Revamped Alumni Weekend Unites Boston University Medical Campus
Boston University Alumni Weekend '09 was held Friday, October 23 to Sunday, October 25 and featured events for alumni from every school. This year, for the first time, combined events were held for all three schools on the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC). The William J. Bicknell Lectureship in Public Health kicked things off on Friday... More
Lab Worker Infected with Bacteria Now Recovering — School of Medicine and Boston Public Health Commission examine lab, review policies
A researcher at the BU School of Medicine became ill last weekend after being infected with the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which he had been studying in a BioSafety Level 2 laboratory. MED spokespeople say the researcher, whose identity has not been disclosed, does not have meningitis, but is infected with a bacterium that can cause the disease. Thomas Moore, Medical Campus associate provost for clinical research, says the researcher is responding well to antibiotics and is expected to make a full recovery. Click here to see the BU Today story by Art Jahnke More
Web-Based Nutrition Program Reduces Healthcare Costs for Employees with Cardiac Risk Factors
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) have shown that an employer-sponsored, internet-based diet and exercise program shows promise as a low-cost benefit to lower healthcare costs for those at higher risk for above-average costs and healthcare utilization such as cardiac, hyperlipidemia, hypertension or diabetes patients. More
BUSM Center Finds Degenerative Brain Disease in NFL Player
The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that a recently deceased member of the NFL Hall of Fame suffered from the degenerative brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) when he died, becoming the 10th former NFL player diagnosed with the disease. More
CityLab Awarded Grant from NIH-National Center for Research Resources
BUSM's CityLab program has received a five year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). With this award, BUSM's CityLab program will expand its curriculum supplements with hands-on laboratory experiments and computer-generated simulations designed to impart an understanding and appreciation of the basic elements of clinical research... More
GSDM Celebrates 150 Years of ADA with Annual Session in Hawaii
Members of the Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) community traveled to Honolulu, Hawaii to celebrate 150 years of the American Dental Association (ADA) at the 2009 Annual Session. The Session was held from October 1 to 4 and had approximately 24,644 registrants. "The Session was fantastic," said attendee Clinical Associate Professor... More
CSTE Diagnoses First Non-Pro College Football Player with CTE
The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that a deceased former college football player who died at age 42 was already suffering from the degenerative brain disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). This is the first time an advanced case of CTE has been discovered in a college football player that did not play professionally. More