Leading members of the Class of 2022 received special recognition during the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences’ Honors Convocation, which took place April 29 at UB’s Center for the Arts.

Six Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences faculty members, five residents and three medical students received 2022 Louis A. and Ruth Siegel Awards or honorable mentions for excellence in teaching.

Sixteen students in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences were honored for outstanding achievements at the University at Buffalo’s 2022 Celebration of Student Academic Excellence.

Three trainees in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology have received fellowships from the American Heart Association (AHA).

Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Behavioral Medicine, has been elected to the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR).

Mausma Bawa, MD, a trainee in the neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship, has been selected as one of three early-stage investigators — in collaboration with the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) Junior Section — to present at the 125th annual meeting of the Japan Pediatric Society April 15-17 in Fukushima, Japan.

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.

Steven  J. Fliesler, PhD, has been awarded the University at Buffalo Graduate School’s 2021-2022 Distinguished Postdoc Mentor Award.

Anne B. Curtis, MD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and chair of medicine, has been selected as president-elect of the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM).

Two doctoral students in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences are among the recipients of the state’s second annual Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent (GREAT) awards.

A trainee in the doctoral program in biochemistry has been awarded a two-year predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association for her research on a fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

Gil I. Wolfe, MD, UB Distinguished Professor and the Irvin and Rosemary Smith Chair of neurology, has been appointed to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee.

Christopher S. Cohan, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of pathology and anatomical sciences, has been named a SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador for 2022.