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Nonprofit boston university U.S. Postage school of medicine 72 East Concord Street PAID Boston MA Boston, Massachusetts 02118 Permit No. 1839 Campus + Alumni News summer 2011 • www.bumc.bu.edu ➜ A New Voice at The Journal of the American Medical Association Howard Bauchner ’79 plus • reflections from provost and dean karen antman • the road to leadership in academic medicine Message From The Dean summerContents 2011 DeAr FrieNDs, Boston University reaccreditation process. The three-year School of Medicine’s many conscientious self-analysis that preceded the site visit students, dedicated faculty, superb clini- provided a comprehensive examination cians and researchers, and outstanding of what we do and how well we do it. alumni engage in every facet of medical The outstanding effort by more than 300 care, research, education, and health policy. faculty members and 150 student partici- pants examined in depth our processes, Our alumni are accomplishing great administration, and curriculum. Strengths things in many different and interesting identified included student service learn- fields. Howard Bauchner ’79 has been ing; a deep sense of collegiality among FEATURES named the editor of The Journal of the faculty, students, and staff; responsive American Medical Association (JAMA), institutional structures; mission-based one of the world’s most important medi- budgeting that reinforces our emphasis 28 cal journals. Dr. Bauchner is a professor on quality teaching; and diverse clinical and vice chair for academic affairs in our and cutting-edge research opportunities A CoNversAtioN Department of Pediatrics. for our students that greatly enrich their witH provost educational experience. AND DeAN KAreN Charlotte Cowan ’84 brings her talents ANtmAN, mD to pediatric education and literature The unlimited capacity of our faculty, staff, as the author of five highly recognized students, alumni, and friends to make a “BUSM’s faculty and students books for children. difference is clear in the following pages. are committed to its educational We appreciate your involvement in and and research mission. This In this issue, we also highlight several support of this work. community is also dedicated to graduates who are deans of medical mitigating health disparities, schools across the country. As their sto- Best regards, both locally and globally.” ries show, while being a dean is challeng- — Dean Karen Antman ing, it is also incredibly rewarding. DEPARTMENTS During the winter, we were engaged in a site visit by a team of Liaison Committee Karen Antman, MD on Medical Education (LCME) evalua- Provost, Medical Campus 2 Campus News 32 tors as part of the School’s important Dean, School of Medicine Keys to leADiNg academiC meDiCiNe 14 Faculty News today Being a dean of a medical school 20 Research in the United States is a complex challenge, and BUSM has 38 Giving to BUSM produced three current leaders who meet the demands. Here, 41 Alumni News they discuss their unique paths Boston University School of Maria Ober design & production Please direct any questions or comments to Medicine: Campus & Alumni News Director of Communications Boston University Creative to leadership. 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BUMedicine BUMedicine BUMedicine Howard Bauchner at the Helm RADIATION ONCOLOGY NOW of Prestigious Medical Journal INDEPENDENT DEPARTMENT BUSM professor and alumnus lands in Chicago to lead JAMA As of October 2010, radiation oncology is an independent department on the Medical Campus. “The time was right to recognize the advances and importance of the discipline,” says Lisa Kachnic, MD, chair of the new Howard Bauchner MED’79, a 25-year veteran of the U.S.-based editor-in-chief of department and professor of radiology at BUSM and chief of radiation School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, has the British Archives of Disease in oncology at Boston Medical Center (BMC). “This new department will Childhood, published by the allow for the further growth of innovative research and individualized care been named the new editor-in-chief of the 128-year-old Royal College of Paediatrics in radiation oncology at BUSM. Together with our BMC multidisciplinary Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). and Child Health. He is also a clinical colleagues and BUSM scientists, we will work to improve cancer Bauchner was in Chicago, JAMA’s base, for the member of the editorial boards prevention and treatment outcomes for our most vulnerable patients.” announcement of his appointment, effective July 1. of several publications. Author In the past five years, BUSM radiation oncology faculty helped develop He succeeds friend and fellow pediatrician Catherine of more than 125 papers, he a state-of-the-art radiotherapy facility on the Medical Campus. Many DeAngelis, the journal’s first female editor-in-chief. researches health promotion, specialty radiation services have been introduced, including image-guided A BUSM professor of pediatrics, assistant dean for quality improvement, and and stereotactic radiotherapy and the CyberKnife program. Radiation alumni affairs and continuing medical education, and clinical trials. oncology is now integrated in all four years of the medical school curricu- vice chair of Boston Medical Center’s Department of Bauchner says he plans lum, making BUSM a national leader in radiation oncology education. Pediatrics, Bauchner will move to Chicago. “intelligent innovation” at JAMA Kachnic is the principal investigator of more than $11 million in “It’s truly an honor and a privilege to direct JAMA,” by updating its website and research grants from the Department of Defense, as well as a $2.2 million Bauchner said. From the Gilded Age to the Internet Age, print presentations and bringing award from the National Cancer Institute to JAMA has been the scholarly flagship of one of the most in new columnists to provide launch a minority-based community clinical MORE ONLINE influential professional groups in the country. Published “provocative content.” oncology program at BU/BMC. Other research continuously since 1883, the magazine bills itself as “I want to make sure JAMA www.bmc.org/ funding comes from the American Cancer radiation-oncology.htm “the most widely circulated medical journal in the contributes to the discussions Society and the Radiology Society of North world.” It is selective, publishing just nine percent of (such as health care reform and America. The department has four faculty members, each of whom will the 6,000 solicited and unsolicited manuscripts sub- the burgeoning genetics fields) be conducting research in their respective fields. mitted each year. in American medicine,” he says. Beginning in their first year, medical students have the opportunity to “We are pleased that Dr. Bauchner will be the Bauchner says that leaving rotate in radiation oncology as part of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine new editor-in-chief of JAMA,” says Michael D. Maves, Boston University after a genera- (ICM) Program. Between the first and second year, students may engage American Medical Association CEO and executive tion is bittersweet: “It has been in research projects with a faculty preceptor from radiation oncology as vice president. “We’re confident the journal will con- Past JAMA covers my home for over two decades, part of the Medical Student Summer Research Program. tinue to grow and prosper under his leadership. The and it has been wonderful During the second year, students are immersed in the vertically future of JAMA—one of the AMA’s most treasured caring for our patients. They integrated, systems-based Disease and Therapy course, which includes assets—is in great hands.” have many struggles and adversities in their lives, and an entire block devoted to the study of oncology, developed and directed As editor-in-chief, Bauchner will have editorial we are committed to improving their health.” by Ariel Hirsch, MD, assistant professor of clinical radiology and a member oversight of JAMA and the nine Archives journals, Bauchner earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of the new Radiation Oncology Department. In the third and fourth years, the specialty medical journals published by the AMA. of California at Berkeley, later doing his medical intern- students can pursue rotations in one of two radiation oncology-based He was chosen after an international search conducted ship and working as a junior and then chief resident at electives that reinforce the classroom curriculum. “BUSM is the only by a committee comprised of members of the Journal Boston Medical Center (then Boston City Hospital). medical school with formal didactics in radiation oncology provided to Oversight Committee, the JAMA Editorial “Not only is Dr. Bauchner an accomplished scholar, every medical student and taught alongside radiographic interpretation Board, the AMA’s Board of Trustees, and omyerov researcher, and pediatrician, he is also a thoughtful and and immediately reinforced in a clinical setting,” Kachnic explains. Howard Bauchner ‘79 K senior management and with help from an generous colleague,” said Karen Antman, BUSM dean School of Medicine Dean Karen Antman, MD, has high expectations executive search firm.