January Public Health Reminders

Please click here to read the message from Chief Health Officer and Executive Director of Student Health Services Judy Platt, MD, regarding masking, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, Influenza and RSV. 

Nominations: Annual BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Awards

At the end of each academic year, the School recognizes its faculty for their excellence in teaching and services. In the spirit of gratitude and reflection, we invite you to nominate School faculty for the following awards:

Educator of the Year Award – Recognizes faculty who deliver exceptional education to medical and/or graduate students, including didactic teaching, clinical teaching or mentoring. Click here for selection criteria and past award recipients.

Stanley Robbins Award – Acknowledges scholars, teachers or innovators in medical student education. Click here for the selection criteria and past award recipients.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility (DEIA) – Recognizes faculty and staff who do an extraordinary job of addressing and improving diversity and a culture of inclusion, equity and accessibility throughout the Chobanian & Avedisian SOM community. Click here for the selection criteria.

Resident Educator of the Year – Recognizes interns/residents at clinical sites, including BMC and affiliated sites, who deliver exceptional education to BU medical students during their clerkship year through their clinical teaching, feedback and mentoring. Click here for the selection criteria.

Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award – Presented by The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the award recognizes the value of humanism in the delivery of care to patients and their families. Click here for the selection criteria and past award recipients.

Please submit 1-2 page nominations to [email protected] by Friday, Feb. 17, 2023.

Educators’ Collaborative Lunch

Date: Tuesday, Jan. 17

Time: Noon-1 p.m.

Location: Virtual, Register here

"Looking at the Concept of 'Confidence' in Feedback" 

with Assistant Professor of Medicine Sonia Ananthakrishnan, MD, and

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine Craig Noronha, MD.

This session aims to improve the knowledge, skills and attitudes of faculty who are student, resident and fellow supervisors around use and impact of the word “confidence” in feedback exchanges. 

The Department of Medical Sciences & Education hosts monthly workshops for BUMC educators to share and exchange ideas for best practices in pedagogy for graduate biomedical education.

Request for Applications: Framingham Heart Study Brain Aging Program (FHS-BAP) and Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (BU ADRC) Grants Program

Areas of focus may include, but are not limited to, genetic, genomic, biomarker, pathological, epidemiological, behavioral, brain imaging, ethical, and health systems aspects. Applications are due Feb. 1, 2023.

First Annual MLK Health Activism and Social Change Lecture

Date: Monday, Jan. 23

Time: Noon-1:30 p.m.

Location: Hiebert Lounge, Instructional Building (L)

Join us for a presentation from Thea James, MD, MBA, associate professor of emergency medicine and vice president of mission at Boston Medical Center, on the role that health care providers, leaders and researchers play in promoting health equity. Lecture and Q&A from noon-1 p.m., followed by lunch. Presented by the Diversity & Inclusion Office.

General Faculty & Staff Meeting

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 7

Time: 1-2 p.m.

Location: Hiebert Lounge or via Zoom

Register here

AGENDA

Distinguished Faculty & Staff of the Month Awards

Faculty Affairs Update

Hee-Young Park, PhD

Dean’s Update

Karen Antman, MD

Celebrating Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler's Legacy

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 8

Time: 6-7:30 p.m.

Location: Virtual, Register here

You are cordially invited to join the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine community for a virtual symposium that will honor Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler’s trailblazing legacy as a scholar, activist and the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. This panel of accomplished alumnae will reflect on their own experiences as physicians, their time in medical school and how Dr. Crumpler’s legacy impacts their work with patients, students and communities.

Moderator: Angelique Harris, PhD, Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion

Panelists:

• Jennifer Mieres, MD '86, FACC, MASNC, FAHA, Sr. VP, Center for Equity of Care, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Northwell Health; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Professor of Cardiology, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell
• Patricia Williams, MD '89, Former VP of Safety Surveillance and Risk Management, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; Obstetrician/Gynecologist
• Ebonie Woolcock, MD, MPH '10, Assistant Dean for Diversity & Inclusion, Director of the Early Medical School Selection Program, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine