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January 30, 2020
Nancy Byatt receives John C. MacQueen Lecture Award
The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs has named Nancy Byatt, DO, MS, MBA, the recipient of the 2020 John C. MacQueen Lecture Award, which recognizes innovation by individuals who have made exemplary contributions to maternal and child health.
Full story »January 30, 2020Shriver’s Autism Insurance Resource Center receives grant from Flutie Foundation
The Autism Insurance Resource Center at UMass Medical School’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center has received a $15,000 grant from the Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism Inc. Amy Weinstock, founding director of the resource center, talks about how the funding will be used.
Full story »January 28, 2020Monitoring the coronavirus outbreak
Please be aware that UMass Medical School and clinical partner, UMass Memorial, are monitoring developments related to the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, which originated recently in Wuhan, China.
Full story »January 27, 2020LISTEN: Edwin Boudreaux on screening for suicidal risk in ER patients
In a new episode of the podcast Voices of UMassMedNow, Edwin Boudreaux, PhD, discusses the rise in suicide rates in the United States and efforts to implement routine suicide screenings in the emergency room.
Full story »January 23, 2020Boston Globe columnist lauds Jake Kennedy for lifetime of service as he launches ALS fund at UMass Medical School
The Jake Kennedy ALS Fund, launched last month by Jake and Sparky Kennedy, supports research at UMass Medical School to find a cure for ALS. A Jan. 20 Boston Globe column by Kevin Cullen details the man behind the fund, recently diagnosed with ALS, and the kindness he and his wife have shown since launching Christmas in the City 30 years ago.
Full story »January 22, 2020UMass Medical School to participate in World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day on Jan. 30
UMass Medical School will participate in World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day on Jan. 30, which is an initiative dedicated to the eradication of neglected tropical diseases that threaten more 2 billion people worldwide. Raffi Aroian, PhD, and Gary Ostroff, PhD, will host guest speaker Patrick Skelly, PhD.
Full story »January 22, 2020Student-led study finds implicit bias an important issue for medical trainees
In a study published in PLOS ONE, UMass Medical School students found that trainees value becoming aware of their own implicit biases as they prepare to practice medicine.
Full story »January 15, 2020NPR: Program developed at UMMS a ‘lifeline’ for mothers with postpartum depression
A program developed at UMass Medical School to ensure women with depression during or after pregnancy get the help they need is being replicated across the country, according to an NPR Morning Edition report on the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Moms.
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January 15, 2020
Sheldon Benjamin selected as director by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology has selected Sheldon Benjamin, MD, as one of its eight psychiatry directors. He began his four-year term on Jan. 1.
Full story »January 14, 2020Dorothy Schafer lab shows gene therapy protection of eyesight in models of multiple sclerosis
New research by Dorothy Schafer, PhD, reveals the molecular process in which synaptic connections in the brain are damaged in multiple sclerosis and how it contributes to neurodegenerative symptoms. The paper also shows how gene therapy may be used to preserve neural circuits.
Full story »January 13, 2020LISTEN: From music to medicine, Anne Larkin shares journey to UMMS
Meet Anne Larkin, MD, senior associate dean for educational affairs, and hear how her journey led her to UMass Medical School in a new Voices of UMassMed podcast.
Full story »January 10, 2020BaccMD Pathway Program illuminates path to medical school
Third-year School of Medicine student Monica Tawadros came to UMass Medical School by way of the Baccalaureate MD Pathway Program. She is one of 10 students currently enrolled through the program. Learn more about the pathway in this video.
Full story »January 10, 2020Why we are hard-wired to worry, and what we can do to calm down
In an essay originally published by The Conversation, mindfulness expert James Carmody, PhD, writes about the human tendency to worry and what we can do to help quiet our minds.
Full story »January 09, 2020UMMS Police Chief Jack Luippold retiring; Clanford Pierce appointed successor
UMass Medical School Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police Jack Luippold is retiring from his post this week, while his successor, Deputy Chief Clanford “Leon” Pierce, prepares to take the reins.
Full story »January 08, 2020UMass Medical School mourns loss of James Barry Hanshaw
The UMass Medical School community is mourning the loss of James Barry Hanshaw, MD, professor, dean emeritus and founding chair of the UMass Medical School Department of Pediatrics, who died Dec. 19, at age 90, in his home in Boylston.
Full story »December 26, 2019Jake Kennedy ALS Fund to support research at UMass Medical School
Jake and Sparky Kennedy, long known for their generosity as founders of the annual Boston Christmas in the City celebration for thousands of homeless children, are launching a new drive to raise $1 million to support research at UMass Medical School to cure ALS.
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December 20, 2019
Top story: ALS Phase II clinical trial led by Robert Brown shows treatment is safe, well tolerated
A study by Robert H. Brown Jr., MD, DPhil, published in the journal Neurology, shows that a single transplantation of a bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) called NurOwn was safe and well tolerated by patients.
Full story »December 20, 2019Top story: New VA outpatient clinic to be built on UMass Medical School campus in Worcester
VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System and UMass Medical School will build a new, community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC) for veterans, projected to open in 2021, on the campus of UMass Medical School in Worcester.
Full story »December 20, 2019Top story: Preventive shot for Lyme disease, developed at UMass Medical School, moving forward
A seasonal shot to prevent Lyme disease, developed at UMass Medical School, is moving closer to clinical trial, thanks in part to a $1 million appropriation from the Massachusetts state budget, according to Mark Klempner, MD, executive vice chancellor for MassBiologics of UMMS.
Full story »December 20, 2019Top story: UMass Medical School first in New England for primary care
The annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best graduate schools names UMass Medical School tops in New England for primary care education among 152 medical schools and 33 schools of osteopathic medicine surveyed by the weekly news magazine in its 2020 edition of the Best Graduate Schools.
Full story »December 20, 2019Top story: Graduating students are ‘awed and grateful’ at UMass Medical School on Match Day
The School of Medicine Class of 2019 celebrated the residency matches of 125 students on Friday, March 15, with family, friends, students and faculty.
Full story »December 18, 2019UMMS study finds group medical meetings help low-income patients with chronic pain, depression
A study by UMass Medical School integrative medicine expert Paula Gardiner, MD, MPH, finds that patients with chronic pain and depression benefited from participating in medical group visits in which they learned mindfulness techniques.
Full story »December 17, 2019GSBS Foundations class moves graduate students from knowledge consumers to knowledge creators
The Foundations of Biomedical Sciences course at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences provides new graduate students with the foundational skills they need to develop into independent investigators who can create as well as absorb knowledge.
Full story »December 16, 2019Nursing Schools Almanac ranks Graduate School of Nursing among top
The Graduate School of Nursing ranked second among the top nursing schools in Massachusetts; fourth among those in New England; 21st among public schools nationwide; and 38th among public and private schools nationwide.
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December 16, 2019
UMass Medical School, GE Healthcare Life Sciences to establish viral vector manufacturing facility
UMass Medical School and GE Healthcare Life Sciences will establish a new, large-scale viral vector manufacturing facility, able to provide large quantities of high-quality recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors for preclinical research on the UMMS campus in Worcester.
Full story »December 16, 2019LISTEN: Central Massachusetts residents can join nationwide research project
In a new Voices of UMassMed podcast, Mara M. Epstein, ScD, discusses a local effort to enroll participants in the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program that aims to boost precision medicine research and improve health.
Full story »December 12, 2019Michael Volkert and Jonathan Watts awarded BRIDGE grants for innovative research
Two UMass Medical School scientists have been awarded grants from the school’s BRIDGE Fund to advance discoveries into potentially viable commercial therapies for childhood asthma and eye diseases.
Full story »December 11, 2019UMMS public health experts call for gun control actions like those taken against vaping
An editorial in the journal Medical Care by UMass Medical School public health experts calls for bold action on gun control, similar to actions taken in response to the public health epidemic of lung illnesses in vaping device and e-cigarette users.
Full story »December 11, 2019Sally Kent named Fuller Foundation Term Chair in Diabetes
Sally C. Kent, PhD, has been named the George F. and Sybil H. Fuller Foundation Term Chair in Diabetes. Dr. Kent studies autoimmune response in type 1 diabetes.
Full story »December 09, 2019UMass Medical School reflects on life of Pete Frates, ‘a true champion’
Chancellor Michael F. Collins and the UMass Medical School community acknowledge with sadness the passing of Pete Frates, who raised millions of dollars for ALS research and whose indefatigable spirit remains an inspiration to all who work tirelessly to find a therapy for this disease. According to a statement from his family, Frates died on Monday, Dec. 9, at age 34.
Full story »December 09, 2019UMass Medical School researcher finds self-awareness can divert depressed teens from drinking
A new study of teenagers led by Robert Wellman, PhD, addresses the question of whether depression leads to drinking or if drinking leads to depression.
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UMass Medical School, UMass Memorial Medical Center 11th annual Winter Ball raises more than $1.3 million
The 11th annual Winter Ball raised more than $1.3 million to help support the clinical care, education and biomedical research missions of UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center.
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