Check out @bmc A+ rating in the Lown Institute hospitals Index rankings for civic leadership, value of care, and patient outcomes lownhospitalsindex.org/rankings/ !!! BMC ranks #11 in the aggregate rating out of 3282 hospitals in the US! We should be very proud Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine!

Congratulations to Rania Omar Burke, Ph.D., Vice Chair for Finance and Administration in the Department of Medicine, for her election to the Council of the Administrators of Internal Medicine of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine! Kudos!!

Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama Kolachalama laboratory Asst Professor of Medicine and four of his students are the 2021 Toffler Scholars in Neuroscience grant recipients for their project Alzheimer’s Disease Classification Using Deep Learning. Congratulations to Dr. Kolachalama and his team!

Congratulations to five new Professors in the Dept Medicine: Renda Wiener Renda Wiener, Gerald Denis Gerald Denis, Tamar Barlam, Chris Riordan and Yang Jin!! These individuals are richly deserving and it's especially wonderful to see four women recognized in this way! Bravo!

Congratulations to Drs. Emelia Benjamin Emelia J. Benjamin and Vasan Ramachandran @FraminghamHeartStudy for their election to the American Association of Physicians!! They are exceptional mentors and physician-investigators Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine! Grateful for their excellence and example!

Drs. Allan Walkey and Mari-Lynn Drainoni CIIS established our first Implementation Science fellowship! Congratulations to the inaugural fellows: Drs. Kathryn Fantasia (Endo-Med, former Med Chief Res BU/BMC IM Residency) and Gabriella Ramos (Peds)! Excited to see them soar!

Congratulations to Drs. Miriam Komaromy michal komáromy kendy and Michele Long on their promotions to Professor and Associate Professor of Medicine Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, respectively. They are wonderful role models for all of us! Bravo!

I am so saddened by the recurring police violence against African Americans: Duante Wright (air freshener), Jordan Davis (loud radio), Philando Castille (traffic violation), Tamir Rice (playing in a park), and on and on.....When will it stop? So horrific and so many victims.....

Congratulations to Dr. Rob Lowe on his appointment as Assistant Dean for Medical Education at Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine ! Dr. Lowe is a beloved medical educator and will further enrich medical students' experience in this new role! Bravo!!

Congratulations to Charlene Sylvestre (Heme-onc), Henri Lee (HMU-GIM), Aala Jaberi (Renal) @jaberiAala, and Vaishali Sanchorawala (Heme-onc, Amyloid) Vaishali Sanchorawala for their recent awards for clinical excellence and leadership from BUMG!! So richly deserved!!

Congratulations to Joseph Mizgerd, Director of our Pulmonary Center BU Pulmonary, on being named the first Jerome S. Brody, M.D. Professor of Pulmonary Medicine. Drs. Mizgerd and Brody are inspiring role models for all of us! Wonderful to honor them through this professorship!

Congratulations to Dr. Alice Jacobs for the James Herrick Award from the American Heart Assn council on clinical cardiology!!! See wickedlocal.com/story/newton-t… Wonderful acknowledgment of her leadership in cardiology!!

Congratulations to Dr. Natasha Hochberg from our ID section Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston Medical Center for receiving the Bailey K. Ashford award from the ASTMH for "distinguished work in tropical medicine". Dr Hochberg directs our ID Fellowship and the relatively large Chagas Dx Clinic at BMC! Bravo!

Important findings by Dr. Vasan Ramachandran and collaborators Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Boston Medical Center related to health equity published in Lancet open access: "Differences in estimates for 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Black versus White individuals...." see authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S25…

Congratulations to our inaugural group of five Robert Dawson Evans Distinguished Professors of Medicine Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine: Drs. @David_Felson, David Salant, Emelia J. Benjamin, Thomas Perls, and Michael Paasche-Orlow Michael Paasche-Orlow. Such wonderful role models for all of us! Bravo!

Congratulations to Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD , Chief of Rheumatology@BUMedicine -the youngest recipient ever of the Osteoarthritis Res Soc Int’l Clinical Sci Award! She will also be awarded an honorary degree by Lund Univ in Sweden! Well-deserved recognition for her outstanding achievements!

Congratulations to Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD Rheumatology Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine -the youngest recipient of the Osteoarthritis Res Soc Int’l Clinical Sci Award! She will also be awarded an honorary degree by Lund Univ in Sweden!Wonderful and well-deserved recognition for her outstanding achievements!

Congratulations to medical residents BU/BMC IM Residency, Drs. Sarah Jensen and Dorreen Danesh, for their upcoming induction into the Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine Gold Humanism Honor Society and the Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award! So grateful for their humanism and caring! Bravo!

Check out the important article summarizing 60 years of temporal trends in cardiovascular risk factors from the Framingham Heart Study by Dr. Vasan Ramachandran and colleagues. Much progress and more work to do!! ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…