A summer program launched by the Department of Surgery and designed to encourage underrepresented medical students to pursue surgery turned into a dramatic learning opportunity, for both the students and the department.
The Congressional Medal of Honor Society is awarding the prestigious 2022 Citizen Honors Award for Service to Aaron Epstein, MD, a trainee in the general surgery residency.
Two Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members and department chairs have been granted the rank of State University of New York Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.
Thirty-eight medical students and three residents are inductees to the University at Buffalo’s chapter of the national honor medical society Alpha Omega Alpha.
A study led by senior author Paresh Dandona, MD, PhD, shows that bariatric surgery not only treats obesity and reverses Type 2 diabetes, it also reverses low testosterone levels in severely obese male teens.
Ten faculty members with clinical and research experience have joined the departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Ophthalmology and Surgery at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, professor and chair of surgery, has partnered with Swiss medical education company VirtaMed to trial one of the company’s new mixed-reality laparoscopic simulators — the LaparoS.
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.