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SUNY Clinical Leadership Academy Sessions Underway
10/18/21
Twelve Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences physicians have been selected to participate in the first SUNY Clinical Leadership Academy.
Cain is a Surprise Inductee Into Gold Humanism Society
10/13/21
The surprise induction of Michael E. Cain, MD, outgoing dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and vice president for health sciences, into UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) highlighted this year’s ceremony.
Record 163 Posters Presented at Celebration of Scholarship
9/20/21
Four medical residents, three medical students and one postdoctoral associate earned honors for outstanding poster presentations at the Office of Graduate Medical Education’s third annual Celebration of Scholarship.

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Family Medicine In The News

UB Partners With Jericho Road to Open New Family Medical Center [Buffalo Rising]
8/20/21
Jericho Road has announced the official opening of its new Community Health Center, located at 182 Breckenridge Street in Buffalo. The new medical center is made possible thanks to a mutually beneficial partnership with the Jacobs School’s family medicine residency program. “This partnership with UB is really big for us,” says Myron Glick, MD, Jericho Road’s founder and CEO. Roseanne C. Berger, MD, senior associate dean for graduate medical education and associate professor of family medicine, said, “Jericho Road is a sought after training location for UB residents and students. Their work fulfills the desire to provide humanistic care and make a difference.”
‘We’re forgotten’: Rural Allegany Seeks Boost to State’s Lowest Vaccine Rate [Buffalo News]
3/2/21
A front-page article in the Buffalo News on rural Allegany County in need of COVID-19 vaccines quotes Annmarie Zimmermann, MD, clinical assistant professor of family medicine and a member of UB’s family medicine rural health residency program. "I think the state system of having this all be online didn’t work very well for the elderly,” Zimmermann said. As her practice has gotten vaccine doses, staff has called in senior patients and, in some cases, helped them register on office computers,, according to the article. Those who can get an appointment often must travel 80 or more miles to a vaccine clinic in Buffalo or Rochester, a challenge in communities where some lack access to reliable transportation.
UB’s Human Rights Initiative Shares Its Expertise [Niagara Frontier Publications]
2/24/21
Since its inception in 2014, the University at Buffalo Human Rights Initiative, a medical student group, has played an important role in helping to document and assess evidence of torture in people seeking refuge and asylum in Western New York. Recently, the group was asked to assist their counterparts in Syracuse and at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Kim Strong Griswold, MD, professor of family medicine and psychiatry, the UB group’s faculty mentor, gave a virtual talk, “Insights and Best Practices for Medical Evaluations in the Context of Immigration Applications,” as part of a panel presentation for potential medical volunteers in Syracuse. “The Jacobs School group is an established Physicians for Human Rights clinic,” Griswold says. “Because we’ve been doing medical evaluations for years and have been training our students in this important work, we were asked to provide some assistance as the Syracuse effort gets off the ground.”