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Talented Medical Teachers Honored With Siegel Awards
4/29/21
Fourteen Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences teachers, five residents, four medical students and three staff members received 2021 Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Awards or honorable mentions for excellence in teaching.
UB Chapter Inducts 39 Into AOA Honor Medical Society
3/30/21
Thirty-three medical students and six residents are inductees to the University at Buffalo’s chapter of the national honor medical society Alpha Omega Alpha.
Human Rights Initiative Shares its Expertise
3/15/21
Since its inception in 2014, the Human Rights Initiative at the University at Buffalo (HRI), 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.

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Family Medicine In The News

‘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.
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.”