Do you need to find a roommate, an apartment, or someone to sublet your place? The annual BUMC Housing Fair is free and open to the BUMC community including current and incoming students to the schools of Medicine, Public Health, Dental Medicine and division of Graduate Medical Sciences. The fair offers a great opportunity to […]
Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) postgraduate student Simone Ellis has been selected as a 2012 Boston Schweitzer Fellow. Over the next year Ellis and 15 other local graduate students will learn to effectively address the social factors that impact health while developing leadership skills. The fellows will partner with community organizations to develop and […]
Don’t miss the seventh annual John McCahan Medical Campus Education Day on May 23. This all day event is sponsored by Boston University’s Schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, Public Health, and the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences. Medical Campus Education Day allows members of the Medical Campus to showcase their scholarly activities in education. Faculty, […]
Robert C. Lowe, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Education Director for the Section of Gastroenterology at Boston Medical Center, will be presented with a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Commencement exercises on May 20. “This is one of the University’s highest teaching awards, and we are honored that Dr. Lowe will be […]
“Stigma: Lessons and New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness,” will be the topic of the May 10 Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Bernice A. Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research will be the guest speaker. Professor Pescosolido received a BA […]
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As part of the Meet the CTSI monthly lecture series, the Medical Campus research community is invited to join Michael Pratt, Harald Steltzer and April Effort to learn about “Commercialization of Academic Discoveries and Enabling Patients to Benefit from Your Hard Work.” Each month the CTSI will introduce one or more of its faculty, clinicians, […]
William J. Bicknell has brought his public health expertise to 62 countries and has the distinction of founding BUSPH’s high-profile Department of International Health — but ask him what drives his commitment to international health and he offers the simplest of explanations: “Because it’s not nice for people to hurt. And most people can hurt […]
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery hosted the fourth Donald F. Booth Education Day & “Return to Residency” Program on April 11. The event featured two sessions, the first on Maxillofacial Surgery, and the second on Emerging Technologies and Modern Implantology. Three world-renowned speakers presented their work on a variety of topics related to the title of […]
It’s a lot of work to keep and update the academic records of hundreds of medical students. Or to manage biochemistry research laboratories (especially when they’re under major renovation). Or to juggle a marketing campaign, a new software installation, and summer term administration. Three staffers have received one of the annual John S. Perkins Distinguished […]