A nationwide shortage of pharmacists, entry-level salaries as high as $100,000 and the expanded role pharmacists are playing in health-care delivery have boosted interest and prompted expansion in the professional pharmacy program at the University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and similar programs nationwide.
Commemoration of the 9/11 tragedies may trigger episodes of post-traumatic stress in people who suffer from the disorder, says Nancy Smyth, associate professor in the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. An expert on psychological trauma, Smyth says rebroadcast of news clips showing the tragic events could cause survivors to "relive" the events.
New affiliation agreements that are being negotiated between the University at Buffalo and its teaching hospitals will define and fundamentally change the working relationship between the UB medical school and its teaching hospitals. The agreements are laying the groundwork for improved and more cost-efficient health care in Western New York.
Computer scientists at the University at Buffalo who developed handwriting recognition software systems for the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. Census Bureau are developing a system to flag suspicious patterns in emergency medical reports and make them available to public-health authorities within days, if not hours.
Two faculty members at the University at Buffalo have been invited to make presentations at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held Sept. 2-11 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Building the management skills of area nonprofit executives remains a high priority for the John R. Oishei Foundation, which has given a $245,000 grant to the University at Buffalo's schools of Management and Social Work for continuing support of UB's Institute for Nonprofit Agencies.
Third-year medical students in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will mark the transition from the classroom to the real world of medical treatment at the first annual Student Clinician Ceremony, to be held at 1 p.m. Aug. 18 in the Center for the Arts on UB's North (Amherst) Campus.
"Today" show co-anchor Katie Couric, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, astronaut Mae Jemison, best-selling author Amy Tan and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley will headline the University at Buffalo's 2002-03 Distinguished Speakers Series.
Seven preeminent, world-class scientists in the fields of genomics, chemistry, biophysics, proteomics and computational biology have been named to the Scientific Advisory Board for the Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
University at Buffalo researchers have found an association between bacteria in the sputum of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and exacerbations of the disease, answering a long-standing question about the role of pathogens and COPD flare-ups.
