Through the support of a BU Foundation-India award, Drs. Henderson and Borba, along with research staff Tithi Baul and Senait Ghebrehiwet, attended the 2nd International Conference on Mental Health and Inclusive Development in Chennai, India on January 6-8, 2019. Hosted by The Banyan and BALM (The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health), the conference brought together mental health clinicians, policy […]
Pictured here is Farhan Ladhani, PGY-2 resident, viewing the “skyscrapers” on his recent trip to South Africa, where he completed and international elective in Durban, South Africa at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine. Here is a piece he wrote about an enlightening experience as a patient on the trip. It was midnight on […]
Martha Vibbert, PhD, Director of BMC’s SPARK Center and core faculty at the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, presented her international project, Universal Baby, at the 2018 First International Conference on Early Childhood Development (ECD) hosted by the African Early Childhood Network in Nairobi, Kenya (October, 16th-20th). The conference celebrated the launch of the […]
VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, and Harvard Medical School would like to announce the acceptance of two new post-doctoral research fellows to the 2019-2020 Neuropsychiatry Translational Research Fellowship (NeTReF) program. The NeTReF trains junior investigators from a variety of disciplines in innovative research methodologies that address intersections between stress and […]
Laura Goldstein, PsyD,along with pediatrician Caitlin Neri, MD, was profiled in the APA Monitor for her pioneering work in BMC’s Pediatric Pain Clinic. The article highlights the success of the clinic and its empowering and integrated approach to care. Dr Goldstein and Dr Neri founded the clinic in 2015, and have since built an integrated care team […]
We are excited to announce the opening of the Addiction and Behavioral Health Outpatient RecoVEry (ABOVE) program. The ABOVE program began offering services at the end of January and offers medication treatment to adults with co-occurring opioid use and mental disorders. The program is funded by SAMHSA. ABOVE has two primary aims: 1) to expand access to opioid […]
To support Christina Borba’s K01 study “Epidemiological and socio-cultural landscape of schizophrenia in rural Ethiopia,” Claire Oppenheim visited their site in Butajira, Ethiopia at the Addis Ababa University (AAU). Here she is pictured at the Mental Health Research Office with Tarikua Abera, a mental health nurse and Luwam Sahle, the research coordinator for this study. She was […]
In October 2018, in collaboration with our colleagues – Drs Benjamin Harris and Babawale Ojediran – our research team initiated a mixed-methods study examining substance use and high-risk behaviors among high school based youth in Monrovia, Liberia. Phase 1 of the study involved local medical students who conducted focus groups with youth to validate a […]
The current class of Chaplaincy Trainees met with Dr Henderson on November 27th. They talked about their backgrounds, how the program was going, and how religion, faith and spirituality are positive coping resources for many of BMC patients. Pictured here from left to right are: Rev. Carlos DePina, Rev. Kathy Alger, Christina Carroll, Fr. Andrew […]
The 2018 Humanitarian Award was presented to Dr. Lin Piwowarczyk by the Open Avenues Foundation at the “Response to Migrant Family Separation Crisis Fundraiser” on September 27, 2018 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston for her twenty years of work providing mental health services to refugees and survivors of torture. Co-founder and Director of […]