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APEX Program Celebrates 20 Years at GSDM
The Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Applied Professional Experience (APEX) program celebrated its 20th anniversary with a dinner on April 16. The night honored the efforts and dedication of the dental practitioners who serve as APEX mentors. More
BMC Recognized By The American Heart Association For Turning Guidelines Into Lifelines
Boston Medical Center (BMC) was recognized for its achievement in implementing the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Get With The GuidelinesSM (GWTG) for stroke care. BMC has received the GWTG gold Performance Achievement Award for stroke. This level of achievement shows BMC's commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of care for stroke patients. GWTG... More
Researchers Identify Personality Traits of Centenarian Offspring Which May Influence Longevity
Researchers from BUSM New England Centenarian Study have noted specific personality traits associated with healthy aging and longevity amongst the children of centenarians. The work was conducted in collaboration with scientists from the National Institute on Aging. These findings currently appear on-line in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Previous research on siblings and offspring... More
Dr. Gregory Stoute Named ADEA/Sunstar Americas, Inc./Harry W. Bruce, Jr. Legislative Fellow
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Associate Professor and Director of Minority Affairs Dr. Gregory Stoute was named the 2009 ADEA/Sunstar Americas, Inc./Harry W. Bruce, Jr. Legislative Fellow at the 86th ADEA Annual Session and Exhibition. This public policy fellowship provides an opportunity to learn about the federal legislative... More
Cancer Publishes GSDM Research
A paper titled, "Low Positive Predictive Value of the Oral Brush Biopsy in Detecting Dysplastic Oral Lesions," was published in the March 1, 2009 edition of Cancer, the official journal of the American Cancer Society. This paper was authored by Vinodh Bhoopathi DPH 10; Professor, Director, and Chair of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Dr. Sadru... More
BUSM Names New Chair of Department of Biochemistry
David A. Harris, MD, PhD, has been named Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry for Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) effective September 1, 2009. Harris plans to build upon the long-standing strengths of the Department of Biochemistry, hiring additional faculty, upgrading laboratory space, further developing cutting-edge research activities, and capitalizing on the translational... More
Science Day, A Winning Event for GSDM
Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) Science Day kicked off on March 26 with a wide variety of research presented in poster form by predoctoral students and postdoctoral students and fellows in the hallway outside of the 670 Auditorium. On hand to view the research was Boston University Associate Provost and Vice President for Research Dr. Andrei Ruckenstein along with Dean Jeffrey Hutter, Professor and Director of the Predoctoral Research Program Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska, the poster presentation judges, and supportive GSDM students, faculty, and staff. More
Green and Wolf Headline Panel at HBO Alzheimer's Disease Preview
Two faculty members from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) are headlining an Alzheimer's Disease panel at a preview of an HBO documentary film "The Alzheimer's Project". Robert C. Green, M.D, MPH, professor of Neurology, Medicine and Epidemiology and Co-Director, BU Alzheimer's Disease Center and Philip A. Wolf, MD, professor of... More
BUGSDM Hosts Science Day, March 26
Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Immunobiology Laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital Dr. Denise Faustman, will describe her controversial approach to curing type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases during her keynote lecture at BUGSDM Science Day held at 1:00 p.m. in the 670 Albany Street Auditorium. Dr. Faustman has shown in... More
Attend Symposium Honoring Dr. Franzblau, June 15 and 16
A symposium to honor Carl Franzblau PhD, Chairman, Department of Biochemistry and Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Sciences will take place on June 15 and 16, 2009. This event will celebrate a University leader who has made countless lasting contributions to Boston University and the national and international scientific community during his more than 45 years of... More
Boston University School of Medicine Receives $10.5 Million Pledge to Create Breast Cancer Research Center
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has received a pledge of $10.5 million to create a Breast Cancer Research Center, including an assistant professorship and an international scholars training program, from a Boston University School of Medicine graduate who wishes to remain anonymous. This pledge represents the largest individual gift received by the School... More
Analytical Chemistry Journal Highlights Saliva Research
An article highlighting the research that is part of a collaboration between Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) Professor and Chair of Periodontology and Oral Biology Dr. Frank Oppenheim, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) Assistant Professor Dr. Frederic Little, BUGSDM Associate Professor Dr. Eva Helmerhorst, BUGSDM Research Assistant Professor Dr. Walter Siqueira, More
Researchers Discover Ways of Integrating Treatment of Traumatized Tibetan Refugee Monks
Combining Eastern and Western medicine is the best way to ease post-traumatic symptoms among the Tibetan refugee monks who have come to the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights (BCRHHR) at Boston Medical Center, according to a paper co-authored by Michael Grodin, Grodin, professor of human rights, psychiatry, and community medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and professor of health law, bioethics and human rights at the School of Public Health. More
Head of NIH Fogarty International Center Pushes Ambitious Agenda at Public Health Forum
When Dr. Roger Glass traveled to Zanzibar in 2007 with a U.S. delegation that included Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, he got a lesson in the importance of the long-term sustainability of global health initiatives. The lesson came courtesy of Zanzibar's minister of health, who announced to the delegation that his country had eradicated malaria -- for the third time. Malaria had been eliminated twice before, in 1950 and 1980, but those anti-malaria programs had not been sustained, leaving an opening for the disease to emerge, yet again. More
New Study Shows How Spikes in Nitrite Can Have a Lasting Protective Impact on the Heart
A new study provides insight into how a short burst in nitrite can exert lasting beneficial effects on the heart, protecting it from stress and assaults such as heart attacks. In this study, just published in Circulation Research, researchers at Boston University School of Medicine have demonstrated for the first time that short elevations in... More
Gene Variant Associated with Cocaine Dependence, Cocaine Induced Paranoia Discovered
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, have discovered that variants in the α-endomannosidase (MANEA) gene are associated with cocaine addiction and cocaine-induced paranoia in European American and African American populations. These findings appear in the March issue of the... More
White Patients Benefit More Than Blacks in Surviving Surgical Complications at Teaching Hospitals, Study Finds
Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at non-teaching hospitals, but these better survival rates occur in white patients, not black patients, according to a study co-authored by a BUSPH researcher. "Survival after surgery is higher at hospitals with higher teaching intensity," according to the study, which appears in the February issue of the Archives of Surgery and was co-authored by Amy Rosen, a professor of Health Policy & Management at BUSPH and director of risk assessment and patient safety for the VA's Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research in Bedford, Mass. More
ASDA Students Lobby For Dental Issues
Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) members of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) traveled to Washington, DC in February to participate in National Dental Student Lobby Day, an event co-sponsored by the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and ASDA. Trip participants included ASDA Co-Legislative Liaisons Brian Nelson DMD 10 and Derrick Call... More
SPH Public Health Forum: Global Health in the Twenty-first Century
On March 11, join Roger Glass, MD, PhD, at the SPH Public Health Forum as he speaks on the topic, "Global Health in the Twenty-first Century: New Directions and Perspectives." The Public Health Forum is a regular series hosted by the BU School of Public Health. Roger Glass, MD, PhD Glass is director of... More
BUSM Receives $260,000 Grant from Lincy Foundation
Focus on medical school curriculum development in Armenia Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) has received an initial grant of $260,000 from the Lincy Foundation to support a curriculum development project at the Yerevan State Medical University (YSMU) in Armenia. The project will develop a framework to make medical education in Armenia comparable to that in... More
BUSM Researchers Find Parental Dementia May Lead to Poor Memory in Middle-Aged Adults
People who have parents diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or dementia perform less well on formal memory testing when compared to people of the same age whose parents never developed Alzheimer's disease or other dementia. This is true even in middle-aged persons who do not have a diagnosis of clinical stroke or dementia, according to a Boston University... More
GSDM Professor Kukuruzinska Elected Co-Vice Chair for 2011 Gordon Research Conference
Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine Professor Maria Kukuruzinska, PhD, recently served as Session Leader at the Gordon Research Conference on Salivary Glands & Exocrine Secretion held February 8-13 in Galveston, Texas. During the conference she was also elected Co-Vice Chair of the newly renamed 2011 Gordon Conference on Salivary Glands & Exocrine Biology, along... More
Healthcare Emergency Management Open House: Earn a Master's Degree
Are You Prepared? Boston University's new Masters degree program in Healthcare Emergency Management (HEM) is training first responders in public health, public safety and the medical field with new skills and knowledge to be ready for the next crisis. Attend an open house on Thursday, February 26, 5-7pm; Friday, February 27, 5-7pm; Saturday, February 28, More
First Year DMD Students Make a Difference in the Community
The Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine (BUGSDM) added service learning to the first year DMD curriculum this year as part of the Introduction to Dental Practice course. The service program brought BUGSDM students to local schools where they taught oral health education, observed sealant placement in a school setting using portable dental equipment, More
Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy Announces New Findings Linking Football and Progressive Brain Damage
Four 88 Plan Members Will Donate Brains Upon Death Leading medical experts at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) reported today that nine-year NFL veteran, former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Tom McHale was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease caused by head trauma, More