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boston university school of medicine + fall 2013 • www.bumc.bu.edu THE FINISH LINE BECOMES THE FRONT LINE Exceptional Care for the Boston Marathon Injured BUMC Team Critical to Saving Lives Message From The Dean fall 2013 dear friends, programs to better serve our graduate stu- The April 15 bomb blasts at the Boston dents. The Programs in Biomedical Sciences Marathon triggered a massive emergency and the Professional Development and medical and disaster response as well as an Mentorship program profiled in this issue are Contents outpouring of support. Many of our faculty the latest enhancements for the training of and students were in the tent providing tomorrow’s scientists as well as supportive immediate first aid. Our primary affiliated resources to help graduate students make hospital, Boston Medical Center, less than effective career decisions. two miles from the race’s finish line, houses Commencement ceremonies rounded one of the best Level 1 trauma centers in the out the academic year with the added nation. We received a significant number of distinction of the selection of Deborah the most severely injured victims of the Vaughan as the winner of the 2013 Metcalf bombs. Our faculty, from a cross section of Cup and Prize, the highest teaching award departments, provided the surgical and that the University confers. Profiled in the medical interven tions critical to saving lives, last issue of this magazine, Dr. Vaughan is preserving the best options for rehabilitation, a consummate teacher who has enlightened and giving patients and their families and guided generations of BUSM gradu- emotional support. Other members of the ates. The School of Medicine is exceedingly campus community—staff, residents, and proud of this well-deserved recognition. students—all contributed, whether at the Finally, the opportunity at Alumni scene of the bombings or in the Emergency Weekend to spend time with alumni is Department. Students and graduates of our a special experience. Whether it’s been master’s degree in emergency management 5 or 60 years since they graduated from participated in evidence collection and the School, alumni appreciate their BUSM evaluation. Our response can only be education—a tribute to the long tradition characterized as outstanding. of excellence that marks BUSM. I always Critical to the emergency response enjoy hearing how impressed our graduates were our surgeons. Developing highly skilled are by the renovations and growth on the surgeons is a long and challenging pro- Medical Campus. cess. In this issue we highlight our surgery department’s shadowing program for medi- Best regards, cal students, which is designed to explore what it’s like to be a surgeon early in the educational process and to dispel some of the myths about the specialty. Karen Antman, MD In other news, the Division of Graduate Provost, Medical Campus Medical Sciences, under the excellent lead- Dean, School of Medicine ership of Linda Hyman, continues to develop Professor of Medicine ON THE COVER A BUMC faculty member rushes +to help marathon bombing victims. Photo by Christopher Evans, courtesy of Commencement 2013 Boston University School of Medicine: design & production Please direct any questions or comments to: the Boston Herald. Campus & Alumni News Boston University Creative Services Mary Hopkins Published by the Boston University Communications Office Medical Campus Communications contributing writers Boston University Medical Campus Office on behalf of Boston University Robert Beazley, MD, Lisa Brown, Leslie 85 East Newton Street, M420 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS School of Medicine. Friday, Amy Gorel, Mary Hopkins, Amy Boston, MA 02118 Laskowski, Elizabeth Mitchell, MD exceptional care for the 02 Campus News 33 Students Maria Pantages Ober P 617-638-8484 | F 617-638-8044 | E [email protected] Y boston marathon injured 12 GMS News 34 Giving Director of Communications photography K 14 Boston University’s policies provide for equal opportunity and BU Photography, Boston University BUMC team critical to saving lives affirmative action in employment and admission to all programs 22 Research 36 Alumni Mary Hopkins School of Medicine Educational Media of the University. CURRAN 27 Faculty News Publications Manager Center, Frank Curran K SHADOWinG PROGram 0913 9040046276 KALMAN ZABARS FRAN 18 Students get early exposure to surgery Campus & Alumni News | BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine Fall 2013 | www.bumc.bu.edu 1 BUSM ON THE www.facebook.com/ www.twitter.com/ campus News WEB BUMedicine BUMedicine DEBORAH VAUGHAN, PHD, ReceIVES Education office. An attending physician at the faculty member in each category; the awards BU’S METCALF CUP AND PRIZE Dorchester House Multi-Service Center, she committee and student representatives work Commencement 2013 BUSM Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology first volunteered at BUSM because of her inter- together to select the winners from the nomi- Deborah Vaughan, PhD, received the 2013 est in teaching medical students in community nees. Recipients receive a plaque and a check Faculty Honored for Excellence in Teaching Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching health centers. She received her BA in biochem- for $1,500. at the 2013 BU Commencement ceremony. istry from Princeton University and her MD from For more than 40 years, Vaughan has con- Harvard Medical School. SHOUMITA DASGUPTA, PHD, tributed to research and teaching on the Medical Dr. McAneny is an associate professor of RecoGNIZED WITH BUSM’S Campus, but it is her deep commitment to surgery and vice chair for quality and patient HIGHEST TEACHING AWARD pedagogy and enhancing the student experience safety at Boston Medical Center. He is an Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD, associate profes- through thoughtful and effective use of educa- expert in tumors and other diseases of the sor of medicine at the School of Medicine, has tional technology that earned her BU’s highest endocrine system, the gastrointestinal tract, been recognized with BUSM’s highest teach- teaching award. Vaughan also is an assistant pancreas, hepatobiliary system, and spleen. ing award, the Stanley L. Robbins Award for dean for admissions at the School of Medicine. The recipient of numerous awards, including Excellence in Teaching. Colleagues who nominated Vaughan for the Massachusetts Medical Society award The award honors an outstanding BUSM the award noted that she “is one of the select for outstanding contributions to medical edu- educator and acknowledges the importance few who embrace change, especially when it cation and medical students, Dr. McAneny of teaching skills and commitment to students is for the betterment of curriculum and/or for received BUSM’s highest teaching award, the and education. Established in recognition of students’ learning. It is more than common to Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in the exceptional teaching and devotion to stu- receive enthusiastic emails from her before the Teaching, in 2010. He received his medical dents exemplified by Stanley L. Robbins, MD, sun rises as she beams about the latest tool she’s degree from Georgetown University. former BUSM professor and chair of pathol- using to augment her course for the better.” ogy, the award is presented annually at May The Metcalf Cup and Prize was established Commencement exercises. in 1973 by Arthur G.B. Metcalf, a former BU “Dr. Dasgupta’s brilliance Dr. Dasgupta is director of graduate studies professor and chair emeritus of the BU Board is reflected . in our ability for the Genetics & Genomics program and an of Trustees, to create “a systemic procedure for assistant dean of admissions for the School of the review of the quality of teaching at Boston to grasp the global and Medicine. She is director for the medical genet- University and the identification and advance- finite concepts of the ics course (required for all first-year medi- ment of those members of the faculty who cal students) that teaches how to apply the excel as teachers.” material and how it is approaches of classical genetics and modern applicable not only to genomics to biomedical research and clinical THREE FACULTY MEMBERS HONORED practice. She also co-directs the Foundations WITH EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR the practice of medicine in Biomedical Sciences program in the BUSM AWARds and the patient but also Division of Graduate Medical Sciences. Three faculty members were honored with Dr. Dasgupta has presented and published Educator of the Year Awards at the BUSM to the philosophical in national and international venues on innova- Commencement ceremony May 18. Lorraine and scientific milieu of tive teaching approaches in genetics and on Stanfield, MD, was chosen as Educator of the cultural competency education through the Year in Preclinical Sciences; David B. McAneny, our society.” basic science curriculum. MD, as Educator of the Year in Clinical Sciences; One medical student noted, “Dr. Dasgupta’s and Matthew Nugent, PhD, as Educator of the A faculty member since 1992, Dr. Nugent brilliance is reflected . in our ability to grasp the Year in Graduate Sciences. Selected by the is a professor of biochemistry, ophthalmology, global and finite concepts of the material and Committee on Faculty Affairs CFA( ), the three and biomedical engineering. He is also direc- how it is applicable not only to the practice of were recognized for their excellence in teaching tor of the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research medicine and the patient but also to the philo- and mentoring. The awards are presented in the Laboratory and a course