Department News

  • 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.

  • Trio Honored for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education
    10/8/21

    Graduate Medical Education Awards of Excellence have been presented to the physician who directs the emergency medicine residency program and the administrator of the residency programs in internal medicine and internal medicine-preventive medicine.

  • 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.

  • Students Present Their Summer Research Projects
    9/13/21

    Forty-three student-scientists presented projects during the 10th Annual Buffalo Summer Research Conference, an interdisciplinary forum marking the culmination of their summer research in Buffalo.

  • 9 Faculty Members Join 5 Medical School Departments
    8/31/21

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

  • Career-Development Award Funds COPD Research
    8/20/21

    A mentee of Sanjay Sethi, MD, has received an award that could ultimately help lower hospital readmission rates for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

  • A Lego Replica of Jacobs School is Gift for the Outgoing Dean
    8/18/21

    When Stacey A. Watt, MD, heard that Michael E. Cain, MD, was stepping down as dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, she tried to think of a way to honor the man who had done so much for her and for so many others associated with the school.

  • First-Year Medical Student Relates to Day of Service Cause
    8/12/21

    Bernard Okai’s assignment for the UB Medical Student Day of Service proved to be near and dear to his heart.

  • Mental Health Screening Tools for CF Patients, Caregivers
    7/19/21

    Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers are finding mental health screenings to be an important component for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients and their caregivers.