In The Media

Medical student Gregory Roloff looks at the medical advances being made through immunotherapy and the human face that cancer can take when treating the disease on a personal level. “I hope to return to the lab after this year and try to understand why immunotherapy is lifesaving for some patients…, while others … remain lost in a biological dark matter.”  

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.

Chelsey Ciambella, who along with fellow fourth-year medical student Steven Gangloff, formed the nonprofit organization, Prescription4Warmth that provides donated hats, gloves and socks to frostbite victims when they leave Erie County Medical Center, talks about the program. “Part of why we both went into medicine was to help people and the Buffalo community,” she said.

David A. Milling, MD, senior associate dean for student and academic affairs, talks about calls by the Associated Medical School of New York for a state-funded diversity in medicine scholarship program to assist students from economically and educationally underserved areas.

UB’s Post-Baccalaureate Program is a shining example of the success of initiatives aimed at giving students of diversity a chance to pursue a career in medicine, according to the president and CEO of the Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY), a consortium, of the state’s 16 medical schools,. In addition to academic enrichment and financial support, pipeline programs such as UB’s also provide mentorship and role models for students, according to Jo Wiederhorn of AMSNY.

Michael Bisogno, a student in the University at Buffalo MD/MBA program, and biomedical engineering student Kevin Carter are part of the biotechnology venture that won a UB entrepreneurship competition. The student team is collaborating with mentor Jonathan F. Lovell, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, to develop a business venture for a chemotherapy delivery method that may improve cancer treatment.

University at Buffalo medical students have the opportunity to receive $30,000 scholarships if they pledge to practice in Western New York after they graduate. John J. Bodkin II, MD, an alumnus of UB’s medical school and family medicine residency, started the scholarship program and hopes to fill a shortage of doctors in the region.

"Treat your patients as you would want yourself or family members treated. This was good advice 45 years ago and is still good advice now," wrote Sharon and Paul Kuritzky, MD '73 in response to an opinion piece by incoming medical student Brienne Ryan about how important bedside manner is. 

Marking another milestone of progress, crews have begun erecting the steel frame of UB’s state-of-the-art medical school in downtown Buffalo. The school is set to open in 2017.

Three first-year students in UB’s medical education program are the first to receive scholarships designed to keep locally trained doctors in Western New York. The new doctors will help fill growing needs for medical care.

Construction progresses on UB’s state-of-the-art medical school, set to open in 2017 — a key part of Buffalo’s ongoing resurgence.

The first-year class of medical students at the University at Buffalo has a higher percentage of New York residents than other medical schools in the state.

Gregory Roloff, a University at Buffalo medical student, says legal action should be taken against people who refuse vaccinations. “We must remember that many people cannot be vaccinated due to medical conditions. They rely on us to insulate them by maintaining our own immunity,” he writes.

More than 4,350 aspiring doctors have applied to UB’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, a 3.5 percent increase over last year, which school officials attribute in part to a new state-of-the-art medical school, set to open in 2017.

UB medical students were among the panelists discussing medical and scientific careers at the Western New York Brain Bee — a competition and awareness event for high school students.

Recent measles outbreaks are causing medical educators — including those at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences — to place a stronger emphasis on the disease in their lectures and clinical training for medical students.

UB’s new state-of-the-art medical school, set to open in 2017, is one of several UB projects resulting in a “Best of Green Schools” recognition for collaboration from the U.S. Green Building Council.

As participants in the “White Coat Die-in," University at Buffalo medical students gathered to protest officer-involved killings of unarmed black men. This is a public health issue and something deeply connected to the mission of aspiring physicians, said second-year medical student Nina Paroff.

The University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences received 4,356 applications for admission in 2015, a 3.5 percent increase from 2014. “Building a brand-new, state-of-the-art medical school is certainly a positive,” said Charles M. Severin, MD, PhD, associate dean for medical education and admissions. He notes that the excitement created by the project is helping raise awareness about the quality of the medical school.

The University at Buffalo's new $375 million medical school will have a dramatic impact on its surroundings. It will affect transit, retail and housing from an influx of new faculty and medical students on the downtown medical campus.