Department News

  • Shared Space Fosters Collaboration and Innovation
    6/13/17

    Surgeons and researchers sharing facilities in UB’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute and Kaleida Health’s Gates Vascular Institute (GVI) is resulting in collaboration, synergy and world-class innovation.

  • Siegel Awards Acknowledge Teaching Excellence
    4/11/17

    Fourteen teachers in eight departments received 2017 Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Awards or honorable mentions for excellence in teaching at an April 4 ceremony.

  • Poulsen Studies Neuroprotective Agent for Traumatic Brain Injury
    3/6/17

    David Poulsen, PhD, professor of translational neuroscience in the Department of Neurosurgery, has received $966,000 in private funding to further study a novel neuroprotective agent for moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).

  • 26 New Faculty Join 11 Medical School Departments
    12/20/16

    Twenty-six faculty with varied research and clinical expertise — including two division chiefs and an associate dean for medical curriculum — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.

  • Levy Installed as Hopkins Professor and Chair of Neurosurgery
    11/11/16

    Elad I. Levy, MD, MBA, has been installed as the inaugural L. Nelson Hopkins III, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery.

  • 2016 Graduation
    6/30/16
    A time when we salute or graduating residents and fellows on their amazing accomplishments … and we do it in style.
  • Faculty/Resident Softball 2016
    6/24/16
    On a Saturday afternoon in June, our select team of UBNS residents and physicians grabbed their bats and gloves and participated in the 13th annual NeuroCharity Softball Tournament in Central Park.
  • Annual Faculty/Resident Soccer Game
    6/24/16
    Each June, the residents and a few UBNS attendings with something to prove gather on a Buffalo soccer field, lace up their spikes, pull up their socks, and for one afternoon battle it out to determine the ultimate soccer supremacy. The UBNS Champions Cup has only been around since 2016 but it’s fast becoming a coveted title and allows the winning team one full year of bragging rights.
  • Gibbons Named Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
    6/6/16

    Kevin J. Gibbons, MD, associate professor and vice chair in the Department of Neurosurgery, has been named senior associate dean for clinical affairs and executive director of UBMD Physicians Group.