Fourteen Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences teachers, five residents, four medical students and three staff members received 2021 Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Awards or honorable mentions for excellence in teaching.
The honors continue for Limitless Medical Technologies (LMT), a University at Buffalo startup which produces a leak-sensing film that works with an app to monitor patients who have had intestinal repairs.
Thirty-three medical students and six residents are inductees to the University at Buffalo’s chapter of the national honor medical society Alpha Omega Alpha.
The Department of Surgery has launched an anti-racism and health care equity initiative to address and mitigate the effects of systemic racism and inequality in health care.
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members Maciej L. Dryjski, MD, PhD, and Linda M. Harris, MD, have co-edited a book to help surgeons at all levels of training and practice manage and prevent complications that may occur in the operating room and angiography suites.
Forty-three faculty members with a variety of clinical and research experience — representing 12 medical school departments — have joined the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences over the past several months.
Aaron Epstein, MD, a third-year trainee in the general surgery residency program, has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 American College of Surgeons (ACS)/Pfizer Resident Volunteerism Award.
The Department of Surgery has reported that Titan SGS stapling technology from Standard Bariatrics Inc., which features the longest continuous stapler cutline (23 centimeters), has been successful in an ongoing clinical trial at Buffalo General Medical Center (BGMC).
Aaron Epstein, MD, a third-year trainee in the general surgery residency program founded the Global Surgical and Medical Support Group (GSMSG) in 2015 as a Georgetown University medical student and serves as president of the organization.
Several people associated with the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences played key roles in producing a Buffalo-themed entry in New York State’s “Wear a Mask” video contest.
