UB Research
CONSIDERING OPTIONS: The thought process about surgery options that follows women’s diagnosis with breast cancer is the focus of a study led by Robin Lally, faculty member in the School of Nursing.
UB Top Stories
RESEARCH FUNDING: UB researchers have received $18.7 million in federal stimulus funding for 58 research awards since Congress enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Please click on the link for more information.
BREAST CANCER: UB researcher Heather Ochs-Balcom is conducting the first national study of genes that increase breast cancer susceptibility in African-American families. Please click on the link for more information.
Posted October 6, 2009 in Current Issues, UB Announcements
Presentation Regarding Health Reform by Dr. Nancy Nielsen, president of AMA
HEALTH REFORM: Nancy Nielsen, president of the American Medical Association and senior associate dean for medical education, UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, will discuss “Health Reform: High Hopes, High Stakes, High Drama” during the annual Terplan Lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday. Click on the link for more information.
Posted September 15, 2009 in Current Issues, Educational Programs, Events, UB Announcements
Website for Diversity in Medicine
Please consider going to Aspiring Docs under the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) if you are interested in learning more about diversity within the profession of medicine.
Posted September 4, 2009 in Current Issues, Minority Applicants
UB Top Stories
IMPROVING TREATMENT: New research by UB chemists has implications for potentially curing muscular dystrophy, as well as other diseases.
FRANKENREFORM: UB sociologist Debra Street says current efforts at national health care reform are likely to result in something resembling Frankenstein that will only change health care delivery at the edges.
Posted August 17, 2009 in Current Issues, UB Announcements
UB Top Stories
SMOKING POLICY: UB’s smoke-free policy is in effect as of Aug. 1, with smoking prohibited in buildings and on the grounds — including green spaces — on the university’s three campuses. Until Aug. 1, 2010, smoking will be permitted in areas of parking lots that are more than 100 feet from buildings.
HEAVY INFLUENCE: Having overweight friends may put overweight youths at greater risk of overeating, according to a new study by UB researchers.
Posted August 10, 2009 in Current Issues, UB Announcements
Radio Rounds Medical Talk Show
RADIO ROUNDS RETURNS AUGUST 9 FOR SECOND SEASON
Radio Rounds is the first-ever medical radio talk show produced entirely by medical students, and having completed a successful first season in the spring of 2009, the ‘Rounds’ crew is headed back to the airwaves this fall!
The second season of Radio Rounds premieres on Sunday August 9 at 12pm ET, and the live show can be accessed at the show’s website (link above).
Radio Rounds is produced by medical students at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio. In addition to airing live every Sunday from 12pm to 1pm ET, all shows are also available for free on iTunes. Podcasts of the initial eight episodes of Radio Rounds this past spring were downloaded over 5,000 times, as featured guests included nationally-renowned physicians such as Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen (creator of “The Healer’s Art”), Dr. Amy Reed (vascular surgeon, Cincinnati), and Dr. Alvin Jackson (Director of the Ohio Department of Health).
The special guest for the August 9 premiere will be Dr. Brian Cole, Head Team Physician of the Chicago Bulls and Professor of Orthopedics at Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Cole was recently named the 2009 NBA Team Physician of the Year. Additional guests who will join us on various Sunday afternoons this fall include:
Elissa Ely: Psychiatrist, NY Times Columnist, Former NPR Contributor
Thomas Gill: Medical Director for the Boston Red Sox, Team Physician for the New England Patriots and Professor of Orthopedics at Harvard Medical School
Tracy Kidder: Pulitzer Prize winning American author of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World and his latest book Strength In What Remains
Martin Makary: Chair of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Surgical Outcomes Research. Dr. Makary serves in leadership roles for the United Nations World Health Organization and is a regular medical guest on CNN.
Stephen Bergman: Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of The House of God
Gloria Wilder: Physician, President and CEO of Core Health
Sandeep Jauhaur: Director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He writes regularly for The New York Times and The New England Journal of Medicine and is the author of Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation.
Evan Lyon: Internist, Editor of the Journal of Health and Human Rights, Physician for ‘Partners in Health’ organization.
Robert Marion: Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gyneclogy at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, Author of six published books, including The Intern Blues and Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor.
Michael Collins: Practicing orthopedic surgeon in Illinois, Author of Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs and Hot Lights, Cold Steel
Legislators in Washington, D.C. working on health care reform
Again, Radio Rounds returns August 9, and we hope that you will be able to listen on Sundays this fall! Contact us at radiorounds@gmail.com for suggestions and feedback!
Warmly,
Radio Rounds
iTunes: Free podcasts of past episodes here or search Radio Rounds
Facebook: search Radio Rounds
Twitter: RadioRounds
Posted August 6, 2009 in Current Issues, Educational Programs, Medical Updates
New York Times Article
Please see this attached article published last week in The New York Times titled: The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Applying to Medical School.
Please pay particular note to the line that reads -“I needed to think about how I would become a good doctor (not a good applicant).”
Posted July 31, 2009 in Current Issues, Getting Ready to Apply, Medical Updates
UB Research
DANGEROUS DEPRESSION: Children with asthma have nearly twice the incidence of depression when compared to their peers without the disease — and a new UB study shows depression can be associated with increased symptoms in asthmatic children. Click on the link to read more.
Posted July 13, 2009 in Current Issues, UB Announcements
UB Lecture Series: Personalized Medicine
PERSONALIZED MEDICINE: The UBThisSummer Lecture Series opens at 4 p.m. on Wednesday with a lecture on personalized medicine and pharmacogenomics by pharmacy faculty member Gene Morse. Click on the link for more info.
