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Front-Line Health Care Workers Receive COVID Vaccine Shots
1/15/21
Front-line health care workers, including Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty and medical residents, have begun receiving their COVID-19 vaccines, with some already receiving their second dose.
New Book: Past Pandemics and Modern Medicine’s Roots
12/14/20
Thomas C. Rosenthal, MD, has written a book that examines how doctors dealt with community health crises in earlier times, without the medical advancements and technologies available to researchers in the 21st century.
Team Alice Evaluating Tools for Deprescribing Discussions
11/25/20
Team Alice, an initiative of the University at Buffalo’s Center for Successful Aging, has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the U.S. Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) to evaluate an educational video designed to encourage patient/caregiver-initiated deprescribing conversations with doctors and to evaluate its impact on medication use.

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Family Medicine In The News

Another Voice: UB’s Team Alice Has Resources Promoting Senior Safety [Buffalo News]
12/25/20
The Buffalo News published a column by Mary Brennan-Taylor, research instructor of family medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, about her deceased mother, who would have turned 100 on Dec. 26. Brennan-Taylor remembers her mother’s extraordinary life and her tragic and preventable death due to medical errors. The column states: “Mom was a ‘light a candle rather than curse the darkness’ kind of gal so, inspired by her philosophy, Team Alice was born. A multipronged initiative of UB’s Center for Successful Aging, Team Alice works with patients and caregivers, the health system and researchers to keep the fragile elderly safe.”
3 Types of EHR Training Key for Mitigating Clinician Burden [EHR Intelligence]
12/3/20
EHR Intelligence reported that a survey among clinicians showed that better training in electronic health records can improve satisfaction among electronic health records (EHR) users. The story cites as an example the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science’s decision to partner with Cerner Corp and the Great Lakes Integrated Medical Record to develop electronic medical records training program for medical students in the Jacobs School, led by Andrew B. Symons, MD, clinical associate professor of family medicine and vice chair for medical student education in the department. “Our hope is that by the time students enter their third year they will be quite facile with emergency medical response,” he said. “We even expect they will be offering insights to their attending physicians and administrators.”
Griswold Promotes Understanding on Immigration [Buffalo News]
9/21/20
“Immigration reform is a key issue for our electorate. Individuals and families seeking asylum have become lightning rods for this federal administration,” says Kim Strong Griswold, MD, professor of family medicine and psychiatry, in an “Another Voice” piece printed by the Buffalo News. “In Buffalo, we welcome refugees – legally resettled through the Office of Refugee Resettlement – and have long cared for people seeking asylum who are represented by a cadre of immigration attorneys,” say Griswold and co-author Danielle Bernas.