UBMD Newsletter

Summer Issue 2008

Management council begins the heavy lifting

Council Meeting

The new UBMD management council is now in charge of overseeing daily operations of the 18 physician practice plans as they merge over the next few years into the unified UBMD practice plan.

UBMD key to ECMC/Kaleida merger A press conference was held on June 23 to announce an agreement to consolidate ECMC and Kaleida and construct a new Global Vascular Center on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus that will bring together physicians, researchers and educators to battle heart and vascular diseases.

UBMD Internal Medicine: New name, new faces The former Academic Medicine Services (AMS) practice, home to more than 80 physicians in 13 specialties in the Department of Medicine, has officially changed its name to UBMD Internal Medicine. The UBMD prefix (example: UBMD Pulmonology) has also been added to the names of practice specialties in general internal medicine, allergy and immunology, cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, endocrinology, geriatrics, internal medicine and pediatrics, nephrology, hematology, infectious diseases and sleep medicine.

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