Media Coverage

An article looks at Atomic Medical Innovations and the role that Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, chair of the Department of Surgery, and Kim Grant, business development executive in UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, played in bringing the company to Buffalo.

An opinion piece about how important business understanding has become to the practice of medicine notes UB offers a dual degree MD/MBA program with a health care concentration and an accelerated MBA program for medical residents. The piece was authored by Philip L. Glick, MD, MBA, professor of surgery and professor of management; David A. Milling, MD, senior associate dean for student and academic affairs and clinical associate professor of medicine; and Erin K. O’Brien, assistant dean and director of graduate programs in the UB School of Management.

An article about the difficulties Buffalo has had recruiting doctors to Western New York looks at how that is changing with the construction of the new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences building downtown, and quotes Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, chair of the Department of Surgery, who was recruited to UB this year from Harvard. The article also quotes Peter L. Elkin, MD, professor and chair of biomedical informatics.

Medical 3-D printing has come a long way, and NIN Ventures has brought on multi-organ transplant surgeon Sunil K. Patel, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery, to spearhead investments in the medical 3-D printing industry. 

George Ventro, MD — a general surgery resident at the University at Buffalo — and Gregory Cherr, MD, associate professor of surgery and director of the UB general surgery residency program, discuss opportunities for residents to teach UB medical students, and they comment on the importance of excellence in teaching.

A new accelerated MBA program will allow medical residents to develop key business skills including leadership, finance and big-data analysis, says Philip L. Glick MD, MBA, professor of surgery and vice-chair for finance, who helped design the program.

Based in part on changes reflecting an improved learning environment, UB’s residency programs in surgery and pediatric surgery have been fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Linda M. Harris, MD, of the Department of Surgery, comments on a study showing that one-third of perioperative deaths and complications after elective endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms occur after discharge.

Philip L. Glick, MD, professor of surgery, envisions a system where professionals from various disciplines, patients and families work together to plan and provide care.

Philip L. Glick, MD, professor of surgery, used Twitter to gain knowledge about his patient’s condition, just one example of how the social networking service can be a professional tool for physicians.

Philip L. Glick, MD, professor of surgery, discusses the impact of the Affordable Care Act on medical students.

Stephen B. Edge, MD, professor of surgery, encourages patients to seek breast cancer education and asserts that prophylactic mastectomies are ill-advised when based on misinformation.