Dec. 19, 2021
Editor's Note
BUSM This Week will be on hiatus during Intersession. Our next issue will be Sunday, Jan. 9. Happy Holidays!
- Maria Ober, Associate Dean, Communications
News // Announcements
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year!

A message from Dean Antman.

BUMC Facilities would like to conserve energy over the holiday break in non-occupied spaces. Click here for a list of steps to follow as we head into Intersession.

All students, faculty, staff and affiliates who are eligible must have the booster shot by Feb. 4 (or as soon as eligible).

Comprehensive update includes booster eligibility and requirements, travel, campus collaborations, sequencing at the NEIDL and more.

Due to carpet repair in the Alumni Medical Library, the center round stairwell will be closed indefinitely. Please use the elevators to access L13. Follow the library Twitter or check the library website for updates. 
In the Media

Ann McKee, MD

Elizabeth Sommers, PhD, MPH

Davidson Hamer, MD

Ann McKee, MD

Ann McKee, MD

Katharine O'Connell White, MD, MPH

Ann McKee, MD

Davidson Hamer, MD

Michael Alosco, PhD

Ann McKee, MD

Ann McKee, MD

Nahid, Bhadelia, MD, MA

Sondra S. Crosby, MD

Ann McKee, MD

Cassandra Pierre, MD, MPH, MSc

Jesse Mez, MD
Faculty Action

BUSM faculty are encouraged to RSVP for the 2022 commencement ceremony and order their regalia by Friday, Feb. 11.
 
More information on the developing plans for Commencement can be found online.
Events
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Celebrate the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Date: Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022
Time: Noon–1 p.m.
Virtual or in-person

All members of the BU Medical Campus are invited to a special presentation commemorating the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Guest Speaker: Harold Cox, MSSW
Professor, Community Health Sciences, BUSPH

Host: John Polk, MD
Associate Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, BUSM
Date: Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022
Time: Noon–1 p.m.

Virtual Meeting: Register here 
Agenda to Follow
Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Solomon Carter Fuller, MD
Date: Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022
Time: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Virtual

Please join us for a virtual celebration honoring the life and legacy Solomon Carter Fuller, MD, the first Black man to graduate from BUSM in 1897. A renowned psychiatrist, neurologist, pathologist and educator, he worked with Dr. Alois Alzheimer and practiced in the Boston area before joining the BUSM faculty in 1919. Upon his retirement from academic medicine in 1933, he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Neurology, and continued in private practice for many years.  

The daylong event is sponsored by the BUSM Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Diversity & Inclusion and Alumni Association Offices; and the BU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.  

Boston University School of Medicine