Active Shooter Training, Resources

Please review active shooter training resources. Support is available for students, faculty and staff to cope with these traumas. Read more.

Reminder from Public Safety

Please wear your ID at all times. Also, please prevent those not wearing IDs from entering restricted, card-accessed doors or being allowed to piggyback into those spaces by holding the doors; this includes stairwells. Please report anything or anyone suspicious to Public Safety by calling 617-358-4444.

Annual RO Water Maintenance Shutdown June 13 Through July 7

Please be advised that the annual campus-wide RO (Reverse Osmosis) water service shutdown and/or sanitization begin Monday, June 13.

• E Building, Evans, 75 E. Newton St., 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday, June 13
• X Building, EBRC, (Evans Biomedical Research Center), 650 Albany St., 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Wednesday, June 15
• W Building, CABR, (Center for Advanced Biomedical Research), 700 Albany St., 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Monday, June 27 
• 670 Albany St., 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Wednesday, June 29
• R Building, Housman, 778 Harrison Ave., 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Thursday, June 30
• L Building, Instructional, 72 E. Concord St., 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Thursday June 30
• K Building, Conte, 71 E. Concord St., 7 a.m.-3 p.m., Thursday, July 7

This work is necessary for our annual service and/or sanitization of the RO water system. All polishing units and other point of use systems fed by the building RO water system should be disconnected prior to the sanitization process. Failure to do this could cause harm to your polishing units.

Even though there will be water in the system during this period please do not use the system because it may contain a sanitizing chemical. The RO system being sanitized will be fully flushed and then will be on and operational for use throughout the building. 

We recommend that you store in advance any RO water that may be required during the shutdown period.

Thank you for your cooperation. Please call 857-260-0763 or email [email protected] with questions or concerns.

Jonathan Woodson, MD, Named President of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

As President of USU, Woodson will be responsible for the academic, research and service mission of the university.

BU Ignition Awards Announced; BUSM Faculty Play Prominent Role

Congratulations to Associate Professor Steven Borkan, MD, Assistant Professor Daniel Cifuentes, PhD, and Associate Professor Valerie Gouon-Evans, PhD, PharmD.

Search for PISCEs Preclerkship Curriculum Course Directors

The Medical Education Office (MEO) announces a search for two course directors for the Principles Integrating Science, Clinical Medicine and Equity (PISCEs) course in the pre-clerkship phase of the MD curriculum. 

The course directors will be responsible for the leadership and oversight of PISCEs, ensuring uniformity across the PISCEs modules including student facing materials, instructional design, and assessments. All PISCEs module directors and PISCEs longitudinal content leads will report to the course directors. The course directors will report to the Associate Dean for Medical Education, Assistant Deans for Curriculum and Clinical Integration, and will work closely and collaboratively with the MEO administrative and leadership team.  

Key responsibilities: 

• Ensure delivery of PISCEs course objectives and intentional longitudinal progression of the PISCES threads. 
• Oversee curriculum content throughout the course and ensure deliberate spiraling and interleaving. 
• Meet with module directors and ensure adherence to MEO policies, instructional design expectations, and MEC recommendations. 
• Review EQI data with each module director and provide feedback and suggestions for improvement. 
• Develop expertise in Team-Based Learning and attend sessions across modules at regular intervals. 
• Lead the assessment subcommittee for the PISCEs course, which reviews all summative assessment questions for modules before the module starts. 
• Meet with students who are having academic difficulty in multiple modules. 
• Work with the Academic Enhancement Office to recruit and schedule group tutoring/coaching for the modules. 
• Participate in required committees and MEO related activities including SACs, SEIC, PCS, MEC, etc. 

Qualifications: 

• Prior or current experience as a preclerkship course, module or longitudinal content director in the MD curriculum preferred. 
• Teaching experience using multiple instructional design methods (i.e., TBL, PBL, Flipped) preferred. 
• Experience with designing assessment methods preferred. 

This is a funded position and support will be discussed with interested candidates. Please send a CV with a cover letter noting your qualifications and interest in the position to Rebecca Halley ([email protected]) by June 17, 2022. 

Visiting Professor Lecture: Laura M. Bohn, PhD

Date: Tuesday, June 14

Time: 1-2 p.m.

Location: Instructional Building L112

“Directing Opioid Receptor Signaling to Improve Pain Therapeutics”

Dr. Bohn is Professor and Chair of Molecular Medicine, UF Scripps Biomedical Research, University of Florida and an Affiliate Member of The Brain Institute, Florida Atlantic University.

Her research focuses on how G protein-coupled receptors of the opioid, serotonin and cannabinoid families mediate neurological functions. Her goal is to enhance the benefits and eliminate side effects of therapeutics for pain, addiction and mood disorders.

Visiting Professor Lecture: Venetia Zachariou, PhD

Date: Monday, June 20

Time: 1-2 p.m.

Location: Instructional Building L112

“From Nerve Injury to a Pandemic: Intracellular Mechanisms and Novel Targets for the Treatment of Chronic Pain”

Dr. Zachariou is Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Pharmacological Sciences at the Icahan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Her research focuses on signal transduction and epigenetic mechanisms underlying CNS disorders and their treatment. Her lab uses advanced genetic mouse models, viral mediated gene transfer and multidisciplinary approaches to understand the network and cell type-specific mechanisms of chronic pain, addiction, stress, and depression. Current projects investigate the mechanism by which signal transduction complexes modulate drug addiction and chronic stress, and the role of signal transduction and epigenetic complexes in the transition to chronic pain states.

Another line of research investigates the intracellular pathways in the brain reward center involved affective and sensory components of chronic pain. She aims to understand gene expression adaptations in response to peripheral nerve injury or inflammation throughout the pain matrix, and to develop novel therapeutic avenues for chronic pain conditions.