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FALL 2017 VOL. XXVI, NO.2 NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL MARKS NEW ERA From the Vice Provost....4 By Ellen Goldbaum ues to grow as the new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences build- ixty-four years after moving to the ing opens its doors to the future leaders Inclusive Excellence.............5 University at Buffalo’s South Cam- of 21st century medicine, research and S pus, the Jacobs School of Medicine technology,” Governor Cuomo said. “By New Undergrad Dean.....7 and Biomedical Sciences has re- moving this state-of-the-art facility down- turned to downtown Buffalo. town, we strengthen Buffalo’s economy Study Abroad Incubator..8 The massive $375 million, 628,000- while helping to ensure the city’s growth square-foot building offi cially opened and development continues strong.” December 12, 2017 at 955 Main St., just “Moving the Jacobs School of Medicine DREAM Act.......................9 steps from where it was located from 1893 and Biomedical Sciences downtown is a to 1953. major milestone for the University at Buffa- Pharmacy in Jamaica....... 11 The building was the fi rst to receive lo that has been a decade in the making,” Sapienza Exchange.......12 Welch Ludwig Photos....13 Refugee Camp in Greece...14 Global Innovation.............15 Threats to Biodiversity...16 Malala Speaks at UB......17 Alum from Malaysia.......18 Open Doors 2017..........19 At the ribbon-cutting for the new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (l to r): Byron Brown, Jere- my Jacobs, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Satish Tripathi, Michael Cain, and medical student Laura Reed. Bruneau Honored..... .....20 NYSUNY 2020 Challenge Grant funding said UB President Satish K. Tripathi. through NYSUNY 2020, legislation that “UB is now poised to achieve our vi- International Activities of was signed into law by Gov. Andrew M. sion of excellence in medical education, Faculty & Staff..............21 Cuomo in 2011. The initiative has spurred research and patient care. We are so in- economic growth across the state and debted to Governor Cuomo, who shared Directory......................27 strengthened the academic programs of and supported our vision all along. From New York’s public universities and col- the very beginning, he, along with the leges. The mission of the NYSUNY 2020 Western New York state delegation, saw UB International program is to elevate SUNY as a catalyst the great potential in moving the Jacobs Visit the Offi ce of International for regional economic development and School to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Education website at: affordable education. Campus and recognized the pivotal role it http://www.buffalo.edu/ “Western New York’s transformation could play in the remarkable transforma- internationaleducation into a national health sciences hub contin- tion of our region. Governor Cuomo ad- continued on p. 2 2 MEDICAL SCHOOL “This is an incredibly exciting time for the medical com- munity in the City of Buffalo,” Brown said. “I would like continued from page 1 to thank President Satish Tripathi for his tremendous lead- ership in making this project a reality; Jeremy Jacobs, and vanced our vision by signing the historic New York SUNY his family, for their generosity – not just to UB – but to the 2020 legislation into law.” entire City of Buffalo; and Governor Andrew Cuomo for “This defi ning and transformative moment would also his vision and determination to put Buffalo on the map as not have been possible without the incredible support a leader in medical education, care and research.” and generosity of Jeremy Jacobs and his family, for whom Michael Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is UB and dean of the Jacobs School, said today’s opening “marks a long-awaited reunion for the Jacobs School of Med- icine and Biomedical Sciences. “It reunites our faculty con- ducting research, who have been located on the universi- ty’s South Campus, with those involved in patient care in our partner institutions. This build- ing fully integrates medical ed- ucation into Buffalo’s growing academic health center, em- phasizing interdisciplinary col- laboration and strengthening our relationships with our clin- NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL ical partners. “A medical school that is just steps away from UBMD Phy- sicians’ Group at Conventus, John R. Oishei Children’s Hos- pital, Buffalo General Medical Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and all of our other named,” Tripathi added. partners will foster synergies that will expand and improve “Mr. Jacobs and his family are committed to our vision health care in Western New York,” he said. because they know that the students we educate here, and the discoveries and treatments generated here, will save Addressing the physician shortage and benefi ting lives and improve the quality of life for people around the the region world. Their belief in our institution has transformed the The new building allows the Jacobs School to expand dream of a world-class downtown medical school building its class size by 25 percent, from 144 to 180 students, into a concrete reality.” training many more doctors to address local and national “My family is thrilled to join UB and our elected offi - physician shortages. This year, the Jacobs School admitted cials at today’s ribbon-cutting ceremony,” said Jeremy its fi rst class of 180 students; by 2021, the school’s enroll- M. Jacobs, UB Council chairman, whose family’s historic ment will reach 720 students. $30 million gift was critical to the medical school’s move That expansion, in turn, boosts UB’s ability to recruit downtown. and retain world-class faculty with medical expertise in “The new medical school building fulfi lls the collabora- specialties that the region sorely lacks so that Western tive and innovative vision of the medical campus, which New Yorkers do not have to leave town for specialty care. will have a transformative impact on health care in West- The move of the Jacobs School to the Buffalo Niagara ern New York. By moving the school downtown, UB is en- Medical Campus bolsters the city’s biomedical sector as hancing its role in the fabric of our city and furthering its a catalyst for regional economic development. Medical commitment to our community.” innovations will result from increased synergies with the Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown noted that the Jacobs clinical and research partners on the medical campus, in School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will bring turn, creating new medical technologies and spinoff busi- over 2,000 students, faculty and staff to the heart of nesses. downtown Buffalo. Deliberately positioned as a “gateway” to the medical in a class of 180, can not only contribute but also present 3 campus, the building features a pedestrian walkway from data to the entire group with the touch of a button. Allen Street and the vibrant Allentown neighborhood to Small classroom and study spaces are available through- Washington Street. out the building, all The building’s sus- with optimal technol- tainable features in- ogy connections. clude bicycles avail- A casual café is lo- able to rent in the cated on the second walkway and the fl oor but for full-ser- NFTA Metro station, vice dining options, which is located un- faculty, staff and stu- der the building, a dents will be encour- fi rst for Buffalo, so aged to patronize that the public can local businesses, a de- readily access the liberate feature of the medical campus building. from the Allen/Med- State-of-the-art ical Campus station. laboratory spaces on A 32-foot tall, the building’s third, two story light tow- fourth and fi fth fl oors, er at the Main and are modern and light- High streets en- The spectacular atrium of the new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences fi lled. trance functions as The sixth fl oor in- the building’s sig- cludes expanded facil- nature feature, a beacon, often lit in UB blue, but which ities where students will hone their skills, from the Behling NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL can beam virtually any color, which architects intended as Simulation Center, where students will gain interprofes- emblematic of the school’s return to its downtown roots. sional training using life-like mannequins in realistic med- Just upstairs, on the second fl oor, in a more concrete nod ical scenarios, to the Clinical Competency Center, where to the historic past of the Jacobs School, hangs a pair of students will interact in scripted clinical scenarios using lanterns. standardized patient volunteers. Originally gaslights, they illuminated the High Street Students, medical residents and professionals also will medical school lobby from 1893 until 1953 when the have access to the building’s surgical suites and robotics medical school moved to the UB South Campus on Main suites, where they will be trained in the newest surgical Street. The lanterns were restored by Ewa Stachowiak, as- and robotics skills. In addition to the traditional gross anat- sistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Ana- omy training using cadavers, students will have access to tomical Sciences and Brian Koyn, in the UB health sciences visualizations of the cadavers, providing far more detailed fabrication department who used a 3-D printer to restore anatomical information. missing and decaying lantern pieces with exact replicas of the original metalwork. Historic support and generosity In addition to the support provided by Gov. Cuomo, Active learning the new building was made possible through state and The building design was produced by HOK, a global de- UB capital appropriations and support from the UB Foun- sign, architecture, engineering and planning fi rm, which dation, as well as the generosity of alumni, community was selected for the project by UB in 2012 after winning leaders, corporations and foundations who gave to a $200 an international competition to develop the best design million campaign for the Jacobs School of Medicine and concepts for the new Jacobs School building.

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