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UB Medicine Magazine

UB Medicine is published by the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences to inform its alumni, friends and community about the school’s pivotal role in medical education, research and advanced patient care in our region.

The magazine features timely and informative articles about the school’s move downtown to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, new faculty and chair recruits, clinical and translational research, advances in patient care, medical education and training, UB’s role in the integration of health care in Buffalo, faculty, alumni, students and residents and trends in health care.

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Alumni Highlights

Alumnus Thrives on Wilderness Medicine
10/24/24
As the only physician at an Antarctic research station, Shawn Vainio, MD ’03, was a one-man medical team. He recounted his decades of wilderness medicine experience at a UB Global Health Grand Rounds talk.
DoctHERS Highlights Women’s Health and Media Impact
10/17/24
During the DoctHERS Annual Symposium at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, featured speaker Donnica Moore, MD ’86, called upon physicians and medical students alike to be good communicators in an age of medical misinformation.

School News

NEJM Study: For Chronic Subdural Hematomas, Blocking the Artery Supplying the Brain Covering Reduced Re-Operations Threefold
11/20/24
A dramatic reduction in repeat operations in patients surgically treated for chronic subdural hematoma was achieved when the artery supplying the brain covering was blocked, according to results published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Baizer Recognized With Teaching, Mentoring Award
11/20/24
Joan S. Baizer, PhD, professor of physiology and biophysics, has been named a recipient of a 2024-25 President Emeritus and Mrs. Meyerson Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring at the University at Buffalo.