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First, our doctors are outstanding in their specialties and deservedly rank among the best in the nation and even the world. Second, we have always had the best reputation in Boston, and nationally, when it comes to nursing; read the letters we receive from grateful patients. And third, our concern for our patients pervades this institution. It is woven into the fabric, the value system and the culture. What are our challenges? We need to return BIDMC to complete and continuous financial health, which means producing an operating surplus every year; only in this way will we have the resources necessary to fulfill our mission. We must also continue to seek cooperation and collaboration from all parties needed to sustain a first-rate medical center - physicians, nurses, administrators, other employees, lay leaders, donors, Harvard Medical School, and others in the community.
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BIDMC's
new Board Chairman, Carl Sloane, brings 30 years of management consulting
experience to his role. Sloane co-founded and served as CEO of Temple,
Barker & Sloane, Inc., and its successor firm, Mercer Management
Consulting. He is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration,
Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. Sloane's personal connections
to BIDMC run deep: His wife, Toby, and daughter, Amy, were both
delivered by Harold Rosenfield, M.D., former chief of OB/GYN at
Beth Israel Hospital, and he has served as a board member, trustee
and vice chairman here for a decade. Recently Sloane shared his
views with BIDMCtoday. Research Day 2002
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The BIDMC community got a glimpse into the laboratories of some of the hundreds of scientific investigators here when investigators shared their findings with one another during Research Day 2002 on Oct. 11. Held for the fourth year in a row, the day-long event drew an impressive turnout of the scientifically curious who listened to presentations by eight BIDMC investigators and viewed posters describing more than 160 studies being conducted at the medical center.
“There has never been a time in the history of medicine when so many discoveries were being made at such a rapid pace,” said BIDMC Chief Academic Officer Jeffrey Flier, M.D. “Here at the medical center, 300 principal investigators are involved in a multitude of exciting advances and discoveries. Research Day provides us with the chance to showcase some of this amazing work.”
The majority of the day’s presentations focused on basic research, the studies that are being conducted at the cellular level in laboratories around the medical center. “Basic research is the first step on the path to understanding why disease occurs and to developing new drugs and other treatments to deal with disease,” explains Flier.
The program was opened by world-renowned scientist Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D., of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. An internationally recognized authority on the genetic basis of human cancer, Weinberg delivered the program’s Plenary Lecture, “Rules Governing the Formation of Human Cancer Cells.” His address was followed by presentations on some of the important cancer research being pursued here at BIDMC, as described by Benjamin G. Neel, M.D., Ph.D., division of cancer biology; Daniel G. Tenen, M.D., division of hematology/oncology; and Arthur M. Mercurio, Ph.D., department of pathology.
From there, presentations continued on the mechanisms behind serious viral and bacterial infections, new findings on the role of the brain in obesity, and the use of cutting-edge imaging technology in diagnosing cardiac disease. Presenters included Priscilla Schaffer, Ph.D., of the division of infectious diseases; Ciaran P. Kelly, M.D., division of gastroenterology; Per-Olof Hasselgren, M.D., Ph.D., department of surgery; Joel Elmquist, D.V.M., Ph.D., division of endocrinology; and Daniel Sodickson, M.D., Ph.D., division of cardiology.
Throughout the afternoon, visitors to the Kennedy Building were greeted by an impressive sea of 162 posters, presented in two separate sessions. These displays, which described in detail the research data behind the studies as well as the studies’ results, represented the work of investigators from departments throughout BIDMC.
Abstract descriptions of all of the posters are available on the BIDMC Web site at http://research.bidmc.harvard.edu/
Data/ResearchDay.asp.
- Bonnie Prescott
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