Department News

  • Faculty, Students, Residents Share Artistry at Talent Show
    5/24/22

    The reviews are in. The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ virtual talent show continues to be an unqualified success.

  • NIH Fellowship Confirms Goal to Become Clinician-Scientist
    5/20/22

    Sherice Simpson is the eighth Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences medical student to participate in the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP).

  • New Study: Treating Chronic Pelvic Pain Without Drugs
    4/29/22
    A University at Buffalo expert on the behavioral treatment of chronic pain disorders has been awarded $3.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a five-year clinical study of drug-free behavioral treatments for chronic pelvic pain in men and women.
  • ‘Hard Conversations’ at ‘Beyond the Knife’ Lecture
    2/18/22

    Hard conversations. That’s what Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, said was the purpose of the second annual “Beyond the Knife” lecture. 

  • COVID-19 Vaccination Is Critical for Pregnant Women
    12/28/21

    Jacobs School physicians urge anyone who is pregnant or trying to conceive to prioritize getting all three doses of the COVID-19 vaccine (two doses and the booster) as soon as they can.

  • 20 Faculty Members Join 10 Medical School Departments
    12/20/21

    Faculty members with clinical and research experience have joined the departments of Family Medicine, Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Psychiatry, Surgery and Urology at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Vaccinations for Pregnant Critical During School Season
    8/30/21

    The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is leading an effort to promote vaccination against COVID-19 among pregnant women in Western New York.