Boston University School of Medicine YEAR FOUNDED 1848 (AS BOSTON FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE) 1873 (AS BU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE) DEAN OF FACULTY KAREN H. ANTMAN, MD PROVOST, MEDICAL CAMPUS NUMBER OF STUDENTS MD: 713 MS: 668 PHD/DSC: 241 SIZE OF FACULTY FULL TIME: 1,336 PART TIME: 188 TOTAL: 1,524 Excellence, Innovation, Compassion, Inclusion STUDENT/FACULTY RATIO The core mission of the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) APPROXIMATELY 1.1 TO 1 is training the next generation of outstanding physicians and scientists. Our educational efforts are characterized by excellence, innovation, DEGREE PROGRAMS compassion, and inclusion. Our interdisciplinary research teams • MD work on the forefront of scientific and medical knowledge, and they • MD-PHD are discovering new ways to diagnose and treat the most devastating • MD-MSCI human diseases. • MD-MPH • MD-MBA • MD-JD We have a proud tradition of service to the community. With our colleagues at Boston Medical Center—and the 20 other institutions with which we maintain active partnerships—we serve a highly diverse RANKINGS patient population while we provide our students with far-ranging #13 AMONG U.S. MEDICAL SCHOOLS, TIMES clinical experience. We help operate the largest trauma center in HIGHER EDUCATION (2013-14) New England; our faculty and students run a medical clinic that serves #20 AMONG U.S. MEDICAL SCHOOLS, QS refugees from war-torn countries; and our physicians-in-training WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS: MEDICINE continue a century-old tradition of making home visits to patients in (2014) Boston’s neighborhoods. #5 IN CITATIONS PER PAPER, QS: MEDICINE (2014) BUSM is a unique resource for Boston University, the city of Boston, the #32 AMONG RESEARCH MEDICAL SCHOOLS IN nation, and the world. U.S., U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2015) #35, BEST MEDICAL SCHOOLS IN U.S.: PRIMARY CARE, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2015) RESEARCH STRENGTHS • ADDICTION • ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE CENTER • AMYLOIDOSIS CENTER • AUTISM • BU CANCER CENTER • CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE • CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE (CREM) • CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY • GERIATRICS KEY FIGURES IN HISTORY • HEALTH DISPARITIES • Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD (1831-1985), member of the class of 1864; first female • INFECTIOUS DISEASES (NATIONALLY African-American physician in the U.S. EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES LAB: NEIDL) • Charles Eastman, MD (né Ohiyesa) (1858-1939), member of the class of 1889; Native American physician, writer, lecturer, and reformer; cared for victims of the • PARKINSON’S DISEASE CENTER Wounded Knee massacre • PULMONARY CENTER • Solomon Carter Fuller, MD (1872-1953), member of the class of 1897; • SCLERODERMA first African-American psychiatrist in the U.S. • WHITAKER CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE • William B. Kannel, MD (1923-2011), faculty, pioneer in cardiovascular epidemiology • Louis Wade Sullivan, MD; member of the class of 1958; former Secretary of Health and Human Services and founder of Morehouse School of Medicine TOTAL ANTICIPATED RESEARCH AWARDS • Marcia Angell, MD; member of the class of 1967; first woman to serve as $273 MILLION (2013) editor-in-chief of New England Journal of Medicine • Osamu Shimomura, BUSM professor emeritus, 2008 Nobel Prize winner OTHER POINTS OF PRIDE TOTAL ANTICIPATED NIH-FUNDED GRANTS • Recipient of the first-ever research grant received by BU (a $275 grant $197 MILLION (2013) from the National Academy of Sciences in 1933) • Framingham Heart Study (longitudinal community-based family study launched in 1948 and conducted since 1971 by BUSM) • Recipient (in 2003) of $8.4 million grant from NIH to create the BU Autism BUSM DEVELOPMENT TEAM BY REGION Research Center of Excellence KATE DEFOREST: WEST, MIDWEST, • Recipient (in 2008) of $10.5 million gift from alumna Shamin Dahod SOUTHWEST, UPSTATE NY (CGS’76, CAS’78, MED’87) and husband Ashraf to establish new breast-cancer research group MAURA COAKLEY: NEW ENGLAND, MID- • Medical School Student Residence (104 apartments for 208 students, providing ATLANTIC, SOUTH, NYC safe, convenient, and affordable housing), which opened in fall of 2012 • Site of a federally-supported National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory (NEIDL), conducting BSL-3 research as of 2014 CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES • Research: $70 million SCHOOL OF MEDICINE • Capital projects: $50 million • Scholarships: $40 million • Endowed professorships: $30 million • Educational initiatives: $5 million • Support for faculty & student programming: $5 million.