UMass Chan Medical School
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At UMass Chan, our schools of medicine, biomedical sciences and nursing advance health together. Together. Follow us to see how UMass Chan is advancing together.
At UMass Chan Medical School, it's not just what we do that makes us world-renowned, it's how we do it. We train the next generation of doctors, scientists and advanced practice nurses, lead groundbreaking research and clinical trials, and work to make our communities healthier. Our drive to collaborate and share knowledge creates important discoveries and inspires caregivers who put you first, of
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“Research has enabled to us to peer ever further into what makes us human.” - World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, during the ribbon cutting for UMass Chan Medical School‘s new education and research building
🎧 Listen to Dr. Tedros‘s remarks in this Voices of UMass Chan podcast: https://direc.to/kJsx
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Closed on the holiday, UMass Chan Medical School will be celebrating Juneteenth on Tuesday, June 18. Come to the Sherman Center lobby from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the badge making and T-shirt design stations. The Sherman Center Café will have a special Juneteenth menu that includes BBQ ribs, cornbread, fried green tomatoes, peach cobbler and Juneteenth punch.
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Dr. Tedros, we are honored to have you as part of the UMass Chan Medical School family! Thank you for being a part of our ribbon cutting ceremony.
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Food insecurity affects more than 10 percent of U.S. families. UMass Chan researchers have found a connection between food insecurity and pregnant patients with or at risk for high blood pressure: https://direc.to/kJnh
UMass Chan study finds food insecurity reported by many pregnant patients with hypertensive disorders A study presented by UMass Chan researchers found that roughly one-third of pregnant patients with or at risk for hypertensive disorders reported food insecurity. The authors say the findings support other research suggesting more food support could lead to improved maternal and fetal health.
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Benjamin Botsford, MD, assistant professor of ophthalmology at UMass Chan, says there is no evidence that eye exercises eliminate the need for glasses or offer any long-term significant benefits: https://direc.to/kKBh
“The science simply Isn’t there,” Dr. Botsford wrote for The Conversation US.
Eye exercises to improve sight—is there any science behind them? Benjamin Botsford, MD, assistant professor of ophthalmology & visual sciences, in an article written for The Conversation, explains that despite popular claims, there is no strong scientific evidence that eye exercises can eliminate the need for glasses.
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Jo Kaur and Richard DiGeorge founded the Riaan Research Initiative because of their son Riaan, who has a rare disease with no cure. The nonprofit has given UMass Chan Medical School $2.2 million to contract with Andelyn Biosciences on the manufacturing of a gene therapy for Cockayne syndrome: https://direc.to/kKAP
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UMass Chan receives $2.2 million to fund gene therapy for Cockayne syndrome UMass Chan Medical School has received $2.2 million from a nonprofit patient-advocacy organization to contract with Andelyn Biosciences to manufacture clinical grade AAV9-CSA vector to treat Cockayne syndrome.
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“That's what this building is for: education and research to make a difference in our world.” - World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, during the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new education and research building on the UMass Chan Medical School campus
Visit our website to watch a video with the researchers who will be advancing research together in the new building: https://direc.to/kK2T
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Before today’s ribbon cutting ceremony, take 45 seconds to see how the newest collaborative space on the UMass Chan Medical School campus came together.
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“If you can change the lives of even one person in some way or the other, it's a gift. And I'm grateful for this gift of mine.” - Mohona Gupta, PhD’24
📹 Meet some of our graduates and check out some of the highlights from the 51st Commencement in this video spotlight: https://direc.to/kKiR
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“We need you now more than ever.”
🎧 LISTEN to Gov. Maura Healey’s remarks to the UMass Chan Medical School Classes of 2024 in this Voices of UMass Chan podcast: https://direc.to/kKdY
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Students were buzzing with excitement as they received degrees on Sunday. Swipe to see their family and friends cheering them on at UMass Chan Medical School‘s 51st Commencement. ➡️ 🎓
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Graduating UMass Chan Medical School students from underrepresented groups received Kente and multicultural stoles to wear at Commencement during the Deborah Harmon Hines, PhD, Commencement Celebration: https://direc.to/kLcv
Dr. Hines is credited with developing and nurturing the Medical School’s renowned pipeline programs.
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Everyone in this collage should be very proud. You are now all graduates of UMass Chan Medical School! 🎓
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“This is a time when you can make a real and lasting difference. Opportunities abound and we need you. We need your skilled hands, your caring hearts, your brilliant minds and your growing leadership.” - Gov. Maura Healey to the UMass Chan Medical School Classes of 2024
Today UMass Chan gave a Chancellor’s Medial to Gov. Healey and honorary degrees to Ann Kurth, PhD, RN, MPH, and Frederick “Rick” Sontag, MS, MBA: https://direc.to/kLbJ
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Here are some of our favorite photos from UMass Chan Medical School‘s 51st Commencement. Read our coverage: https://direc.to/kLbt
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When the members of the T.H. Chan School of Medicine Class of 2024 receive their medical degrees today, they will be receiving them by learning community. Here are our graduates, with their respective houses. Congratulations! 🎓
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UMass Chan's chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society inducted 36 new members on Wednesday. Read about the student and faculty recipients of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, graduating medical student Mina Botros and Kavita Babu, MD: https://direc.to/kMBx 🏆
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MD/PhD student Nicholas Peterson received the Chancellor’s Award, the highest award given to a graduating student, during the T.H. Chan School of Medicine’s awards breakfast and scholarship ceremony. View the list of all of the honorees: https://direc.to/kM_P
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Graduating nursing students Johnny Isenberger, RN, MSN, ACNP-BC, CCRN, and Jennifer Costa, RN, APRN, PPCNP-BC, received top awards during the 2024 Celebration of Scholarship and Awards: https://direc.to/kMEa
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The Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences honored graduates and other PhD and MD/PhD students during the Student Achievement and Leadership Awards Ceremony. Read about Chancellor’s Award winner Eric Romo's research on syringe service programs: https://direc.to/kMG_
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Spring has sprung and planting has begun in the UMass Chan Community Garden, thanks to five first-year medical students! What’s grown here goes to the Max Baker Resource Center, a confidential resource available to UMass Chan community members 24/7 via ID badge. Visit the raised garden beds near the volleyball courts to see the progress. 🍅 🌱
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A new statewide program developed by UMass Chan Medical School is helping to address a treatment gap in early childhood mental health issues for children ages 5 and under: https://direc.to/kMjF
The Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program (MCPAP) for Early Childhood is a collaborative partnership between UMass Chan, UMass Memorial Health and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Early childhood mental health program supports pediatricians statewide The UMass Chan central Massachusetts region team serves as the statewide expert hub for MCPAP for Early Childhood.
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Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 Women‘s Faculty Awards: https://direc.to/kNHJ
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Julie Hugunin, Jesse Sardell, and Jennifer Costa, RN, APRN, PPCNP-BC, will represent their respective schools during UMass Chan‘s Commencement: https://direc.to/kNWi
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In the days leading up to UMass Chan’s 51st Commencement exercises, several events will honor outstanding students and faculty and celebrate the accomplishments of graduating students: https://direc.to/kNSt
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UMass Chan Medical School celebrates Commencement week 2024 The 51st Commencement exercises at UMass Chan will be held at noon on Sunday, June 2, following a week of Commencement celebrations honoring the Classes of 2024.
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Our newest Graduate Entry Pathway students, who come to UMass Chan with degrees other than nursing, posed for photos Friday during Incoming Students Day. Their journey to becoming an advanced practice nurse starts in August.
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Twenty faculty members graduated from the Junior Faculty Development Program at UMass Chan on Thursday: https://direc.to/kNRj
They are among the nearly 300 junior faculty members representing nearly every academic department to participate in the program since 2010.
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The leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States stem from mental health conditions. This week, the Maternal Mental Health Task Force recommended creating maternity care centers.
Nancy Byatt, DO, MS’15, MBA, a perinatal mental health expert at UMass Chan Medical School who led the launch of the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program for Moms in 2014, said there is still a lot of work to do: https://direc.to/kNkT
“I think that the most important thing is that we have made a lot of progress and, in that sense, I am kind of hopeful,” Byatt said.
To protect new mothers, a federal panel prescribes maternity centers for mental health support The leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States —including suicides and fatalities linked to substance use disorders — stem from mental health conditions.
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