Department News

  • Learning to Motivate Patients Toward Healthier Lifestyles
    1/21/22
    In a partnership with the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), a Jacobs School program provides medical and dietetics students with tools aimed at boosting the health of Western New Yorkers in 2022.
  • 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.

  • 22 Faculty Members Join 7 Medical School Departments
    12/7/21

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

  • Identifying Kids at Risk for Post-Concussion Symptoms
    11/12/21

    Researchers at the University at Buffalo Concussion Management Clinic have developed a decision rule using a brief, standardized physical exam for sport-related concussive brain injuries in children and adolescents that can readily identify who is at risk for persistent post-concussion symptoms (PPCS).

  • Helping Parents Help Kids Navigate Social Media World
    11/10/21

    The potentially negative effects that social media can have on children have been highlighted recently during congressional hearings that have attracted national attention.

  • New Study Expands Research on Adolescent Concussions
    10/26/21

    A new study by Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers John J. Leddy, MD, and Barry S. Willer, PhD, indicates that adolescents can speed their recovery after a sport-related concussion and reduce their risk of experiencing protracted recovery if they engage in aerobic exercise within 10 days of getting injured.

  • 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.