Surgeons and researchers sharing facilities in UB’s
Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) and Kaleida
Health’s Gates Vascular Institute (GVI) is resulting in
collaboration, synergy and world-class innovation.
This year’s Buffalo Community Immersion program exposed 11
first-year University at Buffalo medical students to the
social and cultural factors that affect Buffalo’s citizens
— issues they will encounter with patients during clinical
training.
Twelve faculty members with varied research and clinical
expertise have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.
As the countdown to the opening of the new Jacobs School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences downtown begins to be measured in
months instead of years, the school continues to grow and diversify
its faculty ranks, attract outstanding students and enhance its
research productivity.
Faculty in the Department of Medicine’s Division
of General Internal Medicine have received a grant to
participate in a national campaign that encourages medical students
and trainees to pursue careers in the field.
Twenty-six faculty with varied research and clinical expertise
— including two division chiefs and an associate dean for
medical curriculum — have joined the Jacobs School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several
months.
Even before ground was broken three years ago for the new
downtown home of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences, it was clear that the building would transform the
neighborhood.
Kenneth D. Pearsen, MD, co-founder and former president and
chief executive officer of Great Lakes Medical Imaging (GLMI), has
been appointed chair of the Department of Radiology.
School administrators, faculty, students and members of the
Buffalo community share their optimism and excitement about what
our move downtown will mean for medical education, research and
clinical care.
