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  • 142 Posters Presented at Celebration of Scholarship
    6/23/20

    Two medical fellows, four medical residents and two medical students earned honors for outstanding poster presentations at the Office of Graduate Medical Education’s second annual Celebration of Scholarship.

  • Update on Change and Inclusion Town Hall
    6/19/20

    The Diversity, Inclusion, and Learning Environment (DIALE) committee is working diligently to address the feedback and suggestions gathered at the town hall meeting, and to address the issues raised in Polity’s Resolution No. 2020-001 and the Recommendations and Action Items document.

  • Partnering on Project for Test Predicting Severe COVID-19
    6/18/20

    The University at Buffalo is joining forces with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and other regional and national health and research leaders to develop blood tests that uncover hidden information in the cells of those exposed to the novel coronavirus to determine which patients will develop severe symptoms.

  • Jacobs School Responds to Killing of George Floyd
    6/9/20

    Trainees, faculty and administrators of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the units in the Academic Health Center (AHC) are responding to the police killing of George Floyd and the international protests it has engendered against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Treating Substance Use Disorder During the Pandemic
    6/8/20

    Tildabeth Doscher, MD, clinical assistant professor of family medicine, was among the physicians who answered the call of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo when he asked for health care workers to volunteer in New York City during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March.

  • Researchers Focus Spotlight on Adolescent Obesity
    6/8/20

    Department of Pediatrics faculty members Leonard H. Epstein, PhD, and Teresa Quattrin, MD, address the growing problem of adolescent obesity in a recent editorial in JAMA Pediatrics.

  • Holmes Treated COVID-19 Patients at Brooklyn Hospital
    6/5/20

    David M. Holmes, MD, was supposed to be in Sierra Leone on a global health trip with students from the medical education program. But when the trip was canceled because of the pandemic, he decided to volunteer to care for COVID-19 patients in New York City.

  • Cain Named to Regional Panel Monitoring COVID-19
    6/4/20

    Michael E. Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has been appointed to serve on the Western New York Control Room, which monitors statistics related to COVID-19 in the region.

  • Sengupta Provides Advice on Managing COVID-19 Stress
    6/2/20

    Sourav Sengupta, MD, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, has compiled a list of helpful advice for health care workers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Psychiatry Task Force Aids Local Health Care Workers
    6/2/20

    Department of Psychiatry faculty have stepped up to provide help for health care workers in Western New York who are dealing with high levels of stress and anxiety related to COVID-19.

  • Supporting Our Community and Advocating for Change and Inclusion
    6/1/20
    We, the undersigned, join the University at Buffalo President in recognizing the devastating impact the recent brutal and unnecessary deaths of George Floyd and other African Americans have had on students, residents and fellows, faculty, staff and their family members and friends.
  • Murphy Testifies at COVID-19 Health Disparities Hearing
    6/1/20

    Timothy F. Murphy, MD, director of the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute, was invited to testify at a New York State Legislature hearing regarding COVID-19 and health disparities.

  • Researchers Testing Alternative to Ventilators
    5/28/20
    Initially spurred by fears of a shortage of mechanical ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients, researchers have been developing a low-cost way of mechanizing resuscitators that are commonly found in ambulances and emergency rooms.
  • Curtis Presents on ICD Use in HRS Science 2020 Series
    5/26/20

    Stark disparities based on sex and race in the use of life-saving implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) interventions suggest potential bias in care pathways implemented by electrophysiologists, according to results of a clinical trial presented by researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

  • Jacobsen Continues to Share Her Love of Fitness Via Video
    5/21/20

    Lisa Jane Jacobsen, MD, hasn’t let social distancing stop her from working out with her colleagues at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

  • Researchers Create Models to Help in Local COVID-19 Fight
    5/20/20

    Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers Gabriel Anaya, MD, and Sarah G. Mullin are putting their statistical skills to use in real time in the fight against COVID-19.

  • Developing Evidence-Based Symptom Criteria for Testing
    5/19/20

    A study led by Brian Clemency, DO, associate professor of emergency medicine, sheds new light on the link between early COVID-19 symptoms and eventual positive test results.

  • Alibrahim Co-Authored COVID-19 Global Guidelines
    5/19/20

    Omar S. Alibrahim, MD, clinical associate professor of pediatrics, is a co-author on the international COVID-19 guidelines for patients who will need to go on life support machines during their course of treatment.

  • Physicians Face Challenging COVID-19 Work Conditions
    5/18/20

    The novel coronavirus has caused massive upheaval in everyone’s lives. Aside from patients and their families, those whose lives have been most altered are those on the front lines ─ the health care workers whose jobs require them to face the virus firsthand each day.

  • UB-Led Team Developing 3D-Printed, Reusable Respirators
    5/14/20

    A University at Buffalo-led research team is developing plans to 3D print safe, effective and reusable N95-like respirators.

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