Department News

  • UB Volunteers Help Care for 1,000-Plus Patients In Haiti, Panama
    6/16/14
    University at Buffalo medical students traded classrooms and comfort for hands-on clinical experience during career- and life-enhancing international medical relief trips this spring.
  • Stockton Kimball Honoree Highlights Women’s Health
    6/3/14

    Noted epidemiologist Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, who has played a leading role in groundbreaking national women’s health research, highlighted results of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) hormone therapy clinical trials during her Stockton Kimball lecture May 29.

  • Trial to Test Promising Drug for Severe Nausea During Pregnancy
    5/19/14

    Building on a successful pilot study, Thomas J. Guttuso Jr., MD, associate professor of neurology and obstetrics and gynecology, will test the effectiveness of the anticonvulsant drug gabapentin in treating hyperemesis gravidarum, a rare but disabling condition of early pregnancy.

  • Clinical Residents, Fellows Can Earn Focused MBA in 3 Semesters
    5/9/14

    University at Buffalo graduate clinical trainees can simultaneously complete their residency or fellowship along with a new, specialized Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree — the first dual program of its kind in New York State and one of only a few in the nation.

  • 43 Honored for Humanism, Exemplary Professionalism, Care
    4/4/14
    Forty-three outstanding medical students, residents, fellows and faculty members have been inducted into the University at Buffalo’s Richard Sarkin Medical Emeritus Faculty Chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS).
  • New Heart Association Funds Support UB Biomedical Research
    2/25/14
    As part of its continued commitment to understanding and fighting heart disease, the American Heart Association (AHA) has awarded the University at Buffalo an additional $348,000 for student and faculty research projects.
  • 5 Departments Welcome New Faculty
    2/21/14
    Fifteen faculty members with diverse backgrounds and expertise have joined the school’s faculty over the past several months. 
  • New Faculty in 13 Departments Bring Broad Experience to School
    12/4/13
    Thirty-three faculty members with diverse backgrounds and expertise have joined the school’s faculty over the past several months. 
  • Stockton Kimball Honoree is Noted Women’s Health Researcher
    6/18/13
    Jean Wactawski-Wende, PhD, professor and associate chair of social and preventive medicine, has been honored with the 2013 Stockton Kimball Award for outstanding scientific accomplishment as well as significant service to the university.