boston university school of medicine + fall 2011 • www.bumc.bu.edu 2010–2011 DoNor rEporT inside Helping Children Thrive ➜ Deborah A. Frank, MD, First Incumbent of Newly Endowed Chair in Child Health and Well-Being fallContents 2011 Message From The Dean dear Friends, lifesaving care to malnourished children During the past academic year, Boston in the Boston area. Her research under- University School of Medicine has scores the need for greater resources for invested in classroom and laboratory at-risk children. Supporting early career renovations and in recruiting talented researchers is another of our most new faculty. The School has increas- important investments; the Department ingly received national attention for our of Dermatology has established two outstanding research, and we continue new assistant professorships for depart- to graduate exceptional new physicians ment faculty. and scientists. Our faculty continues to compete at Despite the unsettled economic land- a very high level for shrinking public scape, Boston University School of research funding, demonstrating the Medicine’s fiscal health remains sound. high quality and vital importance of We have continued to carefully man- the scientific work being carried out age our budgets to optimally support our on the Medical Campus. missions, and our many generous donors are often very involved in advancing our With this issue of Campus & Alumni educational and research programs. News, our students, faculty, and staff would like especially to recognize and This issue of Campus & Alumni News thank our many generous benefactors honors our donors, highlights some of who contributed to the School in the FEATURE our new endowed professorships and 2010–2011 academic year. assistant professorships, and features some of our Dean’s Advisory Board Best regards, leaders who have advanced the School’s 18 priorities and fundraising initiatives. Helping A new professorship in pediatrics was Karen Antman, MD cHildren DEPARTMENTS tHrive established this year; longtime faculty Provost, Medical Campus member Deborah Frank, MD, is the first Dean, School of Medicine A new professorship 2 Campus News to hold this endowed chair. We highlight in child health and her impressive work, which includes well-being honors an 6 Faculty News extraordinary legacy of advocacy, care, and research. 10 Research 22 Giving 30 Alumni Boston University School of Maria Ober design & production Please direct any questions or comments to Medicine: Campus & Alumni News Director of Communications Boston University Mary Hopkins, Communications Office Published by Boston University Mary Hopkins Creative Services Boston University Medical Campus Medical Campus Communications Publications Coordinator, photography 85 East Newton Street, M420 Office on behalf of Boston Editor, Writer Atlantic Photos, John Barton Boston, MA 02118 University School of Medicine. writers Boston University Photography, P 617-638-8484 | F 617-638-8044 | E [email protected] Rich Barlow, Mary Hopkins, BUSM Educational Media Center, and Frank Curran Micah Ulrich Boston University’s policies provide for equal opportunity ON THE COVER and affirmative action in employment and admission to all programs of the University. +Dr. Deborah A. Frank 1011 9040006521 Photo by Vernon Doucette Fall 2011 | www.bumc.bu.edu 1 campus BUSM BUSM has joined social networking! “Like” our Facebook page, follow our Twitter account, and ON THE view our YouTube channel for current research www.facebook.com/ www.twitter.com/ www.youtube.com/ News WEB news, event photos, and more. BUMedicine BUMedicine BUMedicine Being a Doctor Is the Best Job on the Planet Gray skies sprinkling raindrops did not deter the 173 first-year students as they wound their way along the paths of the Talbot Green. Ducking into a large white tent, they were met with enthusias- tic applause and shouts of encouragement from more than 400 friends and family. The annual White Coat Ceremony, held on August 8 for the Class of 2015, marked the formal induction of medical students into their chosen profession. 3 Daniel Remick, MD, professor and chair of pathology and laboratory Tours of the campus and a luncheon hosted by medicine, and Susan Winandy, PhD, the Nancy L. R. Bucher Assistant BUSM Dean and Provost of the Boston University Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Medical Campus Karen Antman preceded the cer- emony, which was followed by a reception spon- Winandy named first bucher assistant Professor sored by the BUSM Alumni Association. The Department of Pathology & Laboratory The program opened with greetings from Phyllis Carr, MD, BUSM associate dean for stu- Medicine is pleased to announce Susan Winandy, PhD, dent affairs, who explained that the White Coat as the first Nancy L. R. Bucher Assistant Professor. Ceremony connects the Class of 2015 with those Winandy earned a bachelor of science from the who have come before them and those who have University of Connecticut and a PhD in Biology from yet to join the profession. Noting that the ceremony is a remarkable 1 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following a moment and that students remember and trea- 4 post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General sure it, Robert Witzburg, MD’77, BUSM associate Hospital/Harvard Medical School, she assumed a dean and director of admissions, formally turned 1. Dean Karen Antman, MD, position as an assistant professor in the Department over the Class of 2015 to the School of Medicine. joins members of the Class of 2015 at the welcoming He noted, “In cultural, social, economic, racial, faculty, upper-class students, residents, and dedi- of Microbiology–Immunology at the Northwestern reception following the ethnic, educational, and linguistic terms, and in life White Coat Ceremony. cated staff.” University Feinberg School of Medicine. Winandy has experiences, your class defines the pluralism that 2. The Class of 2015 files “When you see your first patients in a week or been active in teaching and has served on several is valued in society. You hail from 32 states and 19 past the Talbot Building so, they will not be able to differentiate between thesis committees, as well as being an advisor to different countries of birth. Together as a class, you to assemble for the White you and their doctors. You both wear white coats. Coat Ceremony. speak 26 languages.” You are now part of the profession. Thus you must several students. She has received the Outstanding Witzburg continued, “Academically you are 3. Associate Dean and behave as a physician from the start of your educa- Teacher Award for lectures to medical students in Director of Admissions among the most accomplished classes BUSM has Robert Witzburg, MD tion,” Antman concluded. the Immunology Section. Her research investigates matriculated and are also among the most diverse. ‘77, addresses the Class Before the students donned their white coats how the molecule Ikaros regulates the immune We received more than 11,400 applications for the of 2015 and guests at the and recited the Hippocratic Oath, guest speaker White Coat Ceremony. 173 seats in your class, the Class of 2015.” Kitt Shaffer, MD, PhD, BUSM professor of radiology response. She has served on study sections for the Antman accepted the entering class on behalf 4. Anticipation marks the and vice chair for education in the Boston Medical National Institutes of Health and currently is an faces of members of the of the faculty and said, “You have embarked on a Center Department of Radiology, said, “Being a doc- 2 first-year class as they wait associate editor for the Journal of Immunology. great adventure with a steep learning curve. You to don their white coats. tor is the best job on the planet . If you are not will be strongly supported by more than 2,000 having fun; you don’t have the right attitude.” ■ PHOTos BY FRANK CURRAN PHOTO BY FRANK CURRAN 2 Campus & Alumni News | BOSTON UNIVERSITY School of Medicine Fall 2011 | www.bumc.bu.edu 3 Campus News alumni share their memories fourth-year student Wins student of living in the south end information technology Award residence As if starting his own business, working as a clinical research fellow at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, volunteering as I was there a long time ago. We lived construction the first year at Franklin Square House a Russian-language interpreter, interning at the World Health (women under 21 were required to live Organization in Geneva, and serving on the Massachusetts Progresses in approved housing), which is now Medical Society’s maternal and perinatal welfare commit- apartments or condominiums. Groups tee weren’t impressive We’re making progress of medical students used to walk along enough, fourth-year BUSM Washington Street. A favorite restaurant student Andrey Ostrovsky on the new School was the Red Fez—I don’t know if it is the same restaurant/owner that was there has added yet another of Medicine student in the 1960s. I have been back for a few achievement to his list of reunions, and I walked along Washing- post-undergraduate accom- residence scheduled ton Street with my husband last time plishments: Ostrovsky won for occupancy in the because we stayed in a downtown hotel. the 2011 Massachusetts The neighborhood seems more alive Medical Society’s summer of 2012. The (artists, street fairs) and safer for walk- Information Technology ing than it did when I was a student. It nine-story, $33 million also seems smaller, but the whole city Award for his role in devel- seems smaller viewed in perspective of oping a website that brings structure was designed 1 years of moves and travels. [Editor’s note: strength and collaboration by Beacon Architectural The Red Fez is still here!] to San Francisco’s local Associates with a brick- —Shirley Klein ’68 Andrey Ostrovsky public health community. The award recognizes the and-limestone façade. development of an infor- Its 104 two-bedroom I had to live in a five-dollar-a-week room in mation technology tool that helps physicians practice medicine, a brownstone on Worcester Court when I teach medicine, or pursue clinical research.