Department News

  • 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.

  • 48 Original Projects Featured at Student Research Forum
    3/22/21

    The research projects, from 48 aspiring physician-scientists, were presented at the 2021 Virtual Medical Student Research Forum.

  • 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.

  • 43 New Faculty Members Join 12 Departments
    2/3/21

    Forty-three faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing 12 medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.

  • Telemedicine is the Latest Tool in Jacobs School Training
    1/22/21

    Medical students at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are finding themselves at the forefront of a new type of medical training brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Front-Line Health Care Workers Receive COVID Vaccine Shots
    1/15/21

    Front-line health care workers, including Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty and medical residents, have begun receiving their COVID-19 vaccines, with some already receiving their second dose.

  • New Book: Past Pandemics and Modern Medicine’s Roots
    12/14/20

    Thomas C. Rosenthal, MD, has written a book that examines how doctors dealt with community health crises in earlier times, without the medical advancements and technologies available to researchers in the 21st century.

  • Team Alice Evaluating Tools for Deprescribing Discussions
    11/25/20

    Team Alice, an initiative of the University at Buffalo’s Center for Successful Aging, has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the U.S. Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN) to evaluate an educational video designed to encourage patient/caregiver-initiated deprescribing conversations with doctors and to evaluate its impact on medication use.

  • Studying and Practicing Medicine in Midst of Pandemic
    10/29/20

    The impact of the global health pandemic on the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is far-reaching in terms of its medical education program, residency and fellowship training programs and its research endeavors.

  • Outstanding Medical School Faculty, Staff Honored in 2020
    10/28/20

    The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences celebrated scientific achievements and outstanding service and teaching contributions during the 2020 Faculty and Staff Recognition Awards event.

  • Women Whose Partners are Problem Drinkers Studied
    10/2/20

    Women whose partners are problem drinkers are the focus of a clinical trial being conducted by principal investigator Robert G. Rychtarik, PhD, senior research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry.

  • Faculty, Residents, Students, Staff Get Awards of Excellence
    9/1/20

    Faculty members, residents, medical students and a staff member were among the recipients of 2020 Awards of Excellence for promoting inclusion and cultural diversity at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

  • 142 Posters Presented at Celebration of Scholarship
    6/23/20

    Two medical fellows, four medical residents and two medical students earned honors for outstanding poster presentations at the Office of Graduate Medical Education’s second annual Celebration of Scholarship.

  • Treating Substance Use Disorder During the Pandemic
    6/8/20

    Tildabeth Doscher, MD, clinical assistant professor of family medicine, was among the physicians who answered the call of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo when he asked for health care workers to volunteer in New York City during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March.

  • Holmes Treated COVID-19 Patients at Brooklyn Hospital
    6/5/20

    David M. Holmes, MD, was supposed to be in Sierra Leone on a global health trip with students from the medical education program. But when the trip was canceled because of the pandemic, he decided to volunteer to care for COVID-19 patients in New York City.

  • Physicians Face Challenging COVID-19 Work Conditions
    5/18/20

    The novel coronavirus has caused massive upheaval in everyone’s lives. Aside from patients and their families, those whose lives have been most altered are those on the front lines ─ the health care workers whose jobs require them to face the virus firsthand each day.

  • Forum Showcases 34 Medical Student Research Projects
    4/27/20

    Thirty-four original research projects from aspiring physician-scientists were on display at the 2020 Medical Student Research Forum.

  • 39 Inductees Join UB Chapter of AOA Honor Medical Society
    4/1/20

    Thirty-four medical students, three residents and two faculty members have joined the University at Buffalo’s chapter of the national honor medical society Alpha Omega Alpha.