Gregory S. Cherr, MD, is one of only six medical educators nationwide to receive a scholarship from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation to attend the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators in 2012.
Online health forums, Facebook and Twitter offer surgeons cost-effective and efficient means to share information with their patients, according to Philip L. Glick, MD, University at Buffalo professor and vice chair of surgery, and Sani Z. Yamout, MD, a UB pediatric surgery fellow.
Two UB life-sciences entrepreneurs—one a surgeon and the other a biomedical engineer—are launching the first-ever software modules for teaching robot-assisted surgical procedures.