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BostonUniversity Medicine Boston University School of Medicine WINTER 2015 • bumc.bu.edu What’s ARTgot to do with it? How today’s med students become better doctors by being better observers, listeners, and participants in the arts. Message From The Dean Boston University Medicine these opportunities. Alumnus and travel and nature photographer Paul Gitman Boston University Medicine is published by the Boston WINTER 2015 (MED’66) is a perfect example of melding a University Medical Campus Communications Office life of clinical practice with visual represen- on behalf of Boston University School of Medicine. tation of the cultural variety of human and animal societies. Some of his wonderful Maria Ober Contents work is included in this issue. Director of Communications Diverse populations bring diverse think- ing and perspective. Seeing things differ- Mary Hopkins ently can be a key component to effective Publications Manager research teams. Creating a pipeline of diverse students interested in the biomedical sciences is important to the School and to design & production Boston University Creative Services the future of scientific discovery. We high- light here the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences’ (GMS) STaRS program. Initiated by contributing writers GMS Associate Provost Linda Hyman and Lisa Brown, Kate DeForest, Mary Hopkins developed and directed by faculty member William Cruikshank, STaRS is creating access for underrepresented minority students to photography DEAR FRIENDS, Atlantic Photos, Boston University Photography, advanced biomedical education and expand- Sara Cody, Frank Curran, Kate DeForest, Amy Gorel, From the White Coat ceremonies we ing opportunities for engagement in scien- Jake Hopkins, David Keough highlight here to the celebration of tific pursuits. Commencement, a BUSM education is a Alumnus Howard Bauchner (MED’79) resource-rich environment for students. received the University’s highest alumni Enhancing their experience creates a award during University Alumni Weekend healthy environment for them to meet the last fall. Renowned editor-in-chief of JAMA challenges of modern medical and science and a former BUSM pediatrics professor, education and facilitates their develop- Bauchner shares some of his thoughts on ment as confident, aware physicians and publishing one of the world’s premier medi- scientists attuned to patients and to the cal journals in the digital age. complex issues in health care delivery and The Campaign for Boston University has scientific research. raised $768 million of the billion-dollar goal. Astronaut and doctor Mae Jemison We are gratified that School of Medicine said, “The difference between science efforts have raised $127 million of our $200 and the arts is not that they are differ- million goal. With the receipt of gifts such ent sides of the same coin, or even dif- as the $1.3 million bequest of Class of 1959 ferent parts of the same continuum, but alumnus Frank Gazzaniga and his wife, rather they’re manifestations of the same Florence, for scholarships, we look forward thing . science provides an understand- to reaching our goal that supports the train- ing of a universal experience, and arts ing of our students and the teaching and provide a universal understanding of a scholarship of our faculty. personal experience.” The arts play a vital role in the lives of our students, faculty, Best regards, and alumni through a variety of activi- Physician Assistant (PA) students ties on the Medical Campus, including a happily model their new white coats. College of Fine Arts program created to bring the arts across the University. We make available diverse electives like Visual Karen Antman, MD Please direct any questions or comments to: FEATURE DEPARTMENTS Mary Hopkins Thinking Strategies, the linkage for that Provost, Medical Campus Communications Office 2 Campus News 27 Research universal experience and understand- Dean, School of Medicine Boston University Medical Campus THE ARTS ISSUE 14 Faculty News 30 Giving to BUSM ing. In this issue, we showcase some of Professor of Medicine 85 East Newton Street, M420 20 Boston, MA 02118 How the BU Arts Outreach Initiative is creating a new 19 Student News 32 Alumni News way to think about students, patients & medicine. P 617-638-8491 | F 617-638-8044 | E [email protected] 0215 KALMAN ZABARSKY BY P;HOTO On the cover: Third-year medical student Tripp Leavitt, course manager for the Visual Education in Medicine elective. Photo by Michael D. Spencer Boston University School of Medicine Winter 2015 | www.bumc.bu.edu 1 BUSM ON THE facebook.com/ twitter.com/ CAMPUS News WEB BUMedicine BUMedicine Far left: Jeffrey Choi and Yeon Woo Lee came to Boston from South Korea. They enrolled at BU three years ago for their undergraduate studies in the Seven-Year Med program. Left: Robert Lowe, MD, associate profes- sor of medicine at BUSM and fellowship director of the Section of Gastroenterol- ogy at BMC, borrows the words of a famous doctor to tell students that they are now embarking on a profession of unlimited hours. Below right: Vonne Lee has been braving the Boston winters for a while now— she graduated from Boston University School of Public Health in 2012 and has been working at Boston Medical Center for the past two years. Below left: Students wearing their first white coats. White Coat 2014 them a part of you is the most important handle a crisis, and putting others before part of your education. self. These qualities, he advised, will come to “So just know that when this is over, you “be in you, not on you.” “You will be a doctor all the time, wher- can do it without the coat and to paraphrase This year’s class ranges in age from 20 to ever you are, and you will expect things the famous Dr. Suess, ‘. you can do it in a 32. Some members are only a few months embers of the BUSM Class of 2018 were of yourself even when no one else knows box and you can do it with a fox . you will do out of their undergraduate programs, while you’re a doc,” guest speaker Robert Lowe, it here and there, you will do it everywhere.’ 34 hold a master’s degree or above. They advised to dismiss any expectations of 9-to-5 MD, BUSM associate professor of medicine, And soon you’ll learn just what I mean, so come from 31 states and 23 countries. The jobs as they assembled on Talbot Green for told the 166 students. “You will be calm in welcome, Class of 2018.” majority of the class—86 percent—is bilin- crisis, you will step forward to help when Lowe also stressed that the tradition of gual, and together they speak a total of 28 start of their journey to becoming physicians. the White Coat Ceremony, which symbolizes others hang back, and you will comfort students donning the white coat begins to languages. Women make up 51 percent of The ceremony closed with the students M and heal at accident scenes, Little League instill the values of professionalism from the class and under-represented minorities reciting the Hippocratic Oath, a promise the beginning of medical training and a commitment to the games, and on airplanes. The coat is very the very start of medical training. The coat 20 percent. to respect the physicians who have come ethics and values that go along with the profession. nice, but the oath you are about to take is is meant as a reminder of the qualities they With help from their professors and in the before them and to practice with compas- the key to this ceremony, and the way in need to embrace as future doctors—hard presence of family and friends, the class put on sion and ethics, which they will recite again which you adopt those principles and make work, humility, the ability to stay calm and their white coats for the first time, marking the at graduation. n 2 Boston University School of Medicine Winter 2015 | www.bumc.bu.edu 3 CAMPUS News Inaugural Physician public health, and public policy, delivered the Physician keynote address. “Two pillars of truth as a Assistant BUSM Class of 2018 Parents Reception Assistant Class clinician are first, the practice of medicine is Professional not just a job or career, it is a sacred calling, Oath Receives White Coats on august 4, the school of medicine held a reception for parents and guests of a lifelong pledge; and second, our patients I pledge to perform the following the BUSM Class of 2018, who enjoyed refreshments while mingling with depart- Below left: Keith Parker, Savan Parker, come to us because they have to, not because duties with honesty and dedication: and Jayshri Parker the inaugural physician assistant (pa) they want to,” Toney said. “The white coat you ment chairs and other BUSM faculty members before being welcomed by Dean • I will hold as my primary Below right: Dr. Dwayne Baharozian, class received their white coats at the PA wear is a symbol to patients of a safe haven; a responsibility the health, Karen Antman, MD. Alyna Baharozian, Christine Baharozian, White Coat ceremony July 16. Accompanied symbol of help with their pain, injury, or dis- safety, welfare, and dignity and Douglas Hughes, MD, associate The dean spoke of the importance of family support for first-year medical stu- dean for academic affairs by family and friends, the 25 members of the ease. They give us their trust and we cannot of all human beings. dents, what students should expect during the first year of medical school, and recent Bottom left: Terry Ng, Jessica Ng, and Class of 2016—who were of diverse back- abuse that trust. As clinicians we take a vow • I will uphold the tenets of patient Maggie Koong autonomy, beneficence, nonma- campus enhancements, including the renovated classrooms and new electronic test- grounds and hailed from all parts of the coun- to put someone else ahead of ourselves.” Bottom right: John Batter, Rafael Ortega, leficence, and justice.