Evans Memorial Department of Medicine

10/17/2012

Event photos now available:
http://www.jakphoto.com/7093/

05/22/2012

Speaking of TED talks, Ingelfinger Visiting Professor Eric Schadt gave an energetic presentation on how supercomputing helps the development of disease treatments. Hear him on October 6 at the Centennial (hopefully he'll wear the same outfit!).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrHF98tGT_s

Embrace surprise! Schadt shows how mashing supercomputing with human biology can help scientists break out of linear thinking, uncover complex disease paths,...

05/21/2012

In his TED talk on modern medicine, Atul Gawande mentions Lewis Thomas, who wrote about being an intern at Boston City Hospital in the 1930s:
http://blog.ted.com/2012/02/28/atul-gawande-at-ted2012-2/

Photo: James Duncan Davidson How do we get good at anything? Doctor Atul Gawande opens his talk at TED2012 by asking that question. He writes as well as practices medicine, and constantly has to confront that question about everything in his life.

04/13/2012

Jane Liebschutz, MD, General Internal Medicine, has been honored as the 2012 Community Clinician of the Year by her physician peers of the Suffolk District Medical Society: http://bmc.org/bmc-brief/22.htm -and-accolades

04/12/2012

Former faculty and symposium speaker Louis Sullivan writes in the New York Times about the need for oral health care:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/opinion/dental-insurance-but-no-dentists.html

America needs to train dental therapists who can provide preventive care and perform routine procedures outside traditional dentists’ offices.

04/11/2012

Caroline Apovian, Professor of Medicine, describes the link between fast food and poor health:
http://articles.boston.com/2012-04-03/metro/31276036_1_health-rankings-poor-health-wisconsin-population-health-institute

Residents of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are among Massachusetts’ healthiest, while those in Hampden and Suffolk counties, which include the cities of Springfield and Boston, are the least...

04/10/2012

DOM faculty Avi Spira and Jerry Brody develop early detection for lung cancer: http://www.bu.edu/today/2012/bu-takes-on-cancer-finding-lung-tumors-sooner/

Aggressive and often quick-spreading, lung cancer will kill 160,000 people in 2012, it is estimated. Photo by Anne Weston, LRI, CRUK. Wellcome Images

03/09/2012

Program and registration information now available:
http://www.bu.edu/cme/seminars/CENTMED12/

01/27/2012

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