Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and chief of surgery at the Cambridge Health Alliance, has been named chair of the UB Department of Surgery.
The UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences continues to prepare for its move downtown by growing faculty ranks, improving its research productivity and increasing its presence on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, said Michael E. Cain, MD.
More aspiring doctors are applying to the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and more accepted students are choosing UB, according to school officials.
The contract for the second — and by far the largest — phase of construction has been awarded for the University at Buffalo’s new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
Representatives of the University at Buffalo and other biomedical research organizations joined Rep. Brian Higgins as he announced legislation that would increase funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to more than $46.2 billion by 2021.
Twenty-one faculty members with diverse backgrounds and expertise have joined the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ faculty over the past several months.
The University at Buffalo’s Institute for Healthcare Informatics will play a key role in the new state-funded genome research center — part of a statewide public-private partnership designed to accelerate advances in genomic medicine into clinical care.
University at Buffalo graduate clinical trainees can simultaneously complete their residency or fellowship along with a new, specialized Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree — the first dual program of its kind in New York State and one of only a few in the nation.
School administrators, faculty, students and members of the Buffalo community share their optimism and excitement about what our move downtown will mean for medical education, research and clinical care.
