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New BU Website Promotes Campus Discourse
Check out the comprehensive new website on civility and campus discourse highlighting BU’s core principles and sharing information about educational opportunities, campus resources, policies, points of contact, and special events.
A ‘Campus Discourse’ category has been added to the lefthand tab on the BU Calendar website that allows you to post events unique to this topic. This could include religious life, learning opportunities in the context of current societal conflicts, and special discussions aimed at finding common ground and promoting constructive dialogue on issues of disagreement.
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Send Match Day Best Wishes to MD Class of 2024
The SCOMSA Match Day Committee would like to give faculty and staff the opportunity to send well wishes to the Class of 2024 on their Match Day! Record a short (<30 seconds) video that will be shown to the class before envelopes open. Please upload videos to this form before Thursday, Feb. 29, if you would like to be included.
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AOA Accepting Nominations for Faculty, Residents and Fellows
The school chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) National Medical Honor Society is accepting applications for faculty members, residents and fellows for induction into AOA.
Please submit nomination letters for deserving candidates that outline their academic, leadership, service and professionalism accomplishments in the BU/BMC community. Residents must have finished their PGY-1 year, and faculty must be faculty at the school.
Nominations also must include the nominee’s CV as well as the nominator’s name, role at BU/BMC and relation to the nominee.
For consideration, please send nominations to alumcamed@bu.edu by March 1.
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W Building Construction Project Update
Week of Feb. 26
Next week crews will continue welding structural steel and black iron piping on level 11 and the roof. Additionally, crews will continue building Air Handler 4 and the Konvekta Energy Recovery system. The expected impact for next week is similar to what was experienced this week.
If you have questions, comments or concerns, please contact Dylan McIntosh.
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Call for Nominations: Faculty Council Representatives
The Faculty Council is a university committee that represents faculty members from all of BU’s schools and colleges. Please nominate one of your colleagues or yourself to join the Faculty Council to represent Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. This is a great opportunity to be a part of the university’s governance.
Complete this survey for the nomination by Friday, March 29.
Contact Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs Hee-Young Park, PhD, with any questions you may have.
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Applications Now Open for Early Career, Clinician Educator, & Mid-Career Faculty Leadership Programs
BUMC Early Career Faculty Development Program (ECP)
Applications Due: March 29
Early career faculty are invited to participate in a structured, longitudinal career development program from October 2024-June 2025. To apply, and to find out more information about the program, click here.
BUMG Clinician Educator Leadership Program (CELP)
Applications Due: March 29
Clinician Educators (CEs) are invited to apply and participate in a structured, longitudinal program focusing on improving CEs ability to conduct rigorous educational program design, evaluation, and scholarly dissemination. Program runs from October 2024-June 2025. To apply, and to find out more information about the program, click here.
BUMC Mid-Career Faculty Leadership Program (MFL)
Applications Due: March 29
Late Assistant, all Associate Professors, and Early Professors, are invited to apply to this experiential and project-based leadership program from September 2024-June 2025. To apply, and to find out more information about the program, click here.
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AARP
6 Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Sex after 50
Katharine O’Connell White, MD
The Boston Globe
Smoking surpasses injection as main route of fatal drug overdoses
Miriam Harris MD, MSc
CBS News
Dr. Ridiane Denis helps Haitian migrants prepare for new lives and jobs in Massachusetts
Ridiane Denis, BS, RN, MD
Healio
Tornetta introduced as AAOS president
Paul Tornetta III, MD, PhD
STAT
Niacin has long been a public health darling. But an excess could be bad for the heart, study suggests
William Edward Boden, MD
TIME
How Long Should You Isolate With COVID-19? Experts Are Split
Tara Bouton, MD; Eleanor Murray, ScD
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2nd Annual Rebecca Lee Crumpler Alumni Lecture
Date: Wednesday, March 6
Time: 6-7:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Register here
Speaker: Loretta Jackson-Williams, MD, PhD, FACEP, Vice Dean for Medical Education, Professor of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center
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Steven J. Parker Memorial Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric Conference
Date: Friday & Saturday, March 8-9
Time: 8:15 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
Location: Trustees Ballroom CRC or Zoom
Register here
This annual two-day accredited conference celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2024! It is designed for practicing clinicians who have an interest, passion or emerging expertise in developmental and behavioral pediatrics and want to take their knowledge and skill to the next level. Many clinicians and allied medical professionals do not feel adequately trained when in practice and yet they face these challenges with patients and families every day. The course offers practical approaches to these issues and we welcome participants from a broad array of disciplines including physicians, advance practice providers, nurses, social workers, and allied medical professionals who work in pediatrics and the broader medical community.
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Avedisian Professorships Installation & Celebratory Reception
Date: Tuesday, March 12
Time: 3 p.m.
Location: Instructional Building (L), Hiebert Lounge, Zoom option available for ceremony
Register here
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine cordially invites you to the installation of five named professors, as part of the Edward Avedisian Professorships. The professorship installation ceremony will feature a program of speakers, and will be followed by a celebratory reception.
Faculty Inductees and Named Honorees:
- Toby Chai, MD, Professor and Chair of Urology
- Rachel Fearns, PhD, Professor and Chair of Virology, Immunology & Microbiology
- David A. Harris, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
- Hee-Young Park, PhD, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Professor of Dermatology, and Chair of Medical Sciences & Education
- Andrew W. Taylor, PhD, Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Ophthalmology
All are invited to share messages of well-wishes, photos, or short videos for our inductees and named honorees via this form! Send any questions to cameddev@bu.edu
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