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Gold Humanism Honor Society Inducts Daniels into Chapter
5/9/23
A large crowd of inductees and their families and friends were in attendance for UB’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society induction.
Student Gains National Award for Work on UB’s Team Alice
4/26/23
Matthew Cosmai will be honored by the American Geriatrics Society for a research project he completed during his field internship with Team Alice.
45 Inducted Into UB Chapter of AOA Honor Medical Society
3/29/23
Forty medical students, two residents, two faculty members and one fellow have joined the University at Buffalo’s chapter of the national honor medical society Alpha Omega Alpha.

Family Medicine In The News

Death of a friend in Brooklyn: "Only the people who used with him knew" [El Confidencial]
1/2/22
El Confidencial, a Spanish online newspaper, quoted Tildabeth Doscher, assistant clinical professor of family medicine at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB, in a story on the death of a Brooklyn man due to opioid misuse. “The thing about opioids is that, in the brain, there are different kinds of receptors that latch onto opioids. Let’s say they fill up,” said Doscher. “To relieve pain, to relieve yourself on opioids, you have to take more and more, more and more. This is called tolerance. The more tolerance you have, the more you need.”
Hooked on Primary Care with Patrick D. Glasgow, MD [Healio]
11/4/21
Healio published a piece by Patrick Glasgow, clinical assistant professor of family medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, describing why and how he chose family medicine as his specialty, in a series on primary care.
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.”