By BUATP:

AWARDS:

• Best Student Abstract, 2016 McCahan Education Day, Boston University Medical Center
  • “Lessons from the Spectrum of Physician Advocacy-1 Free-Time Elective.” Katelyn Carey, Karen Foo, Genevieve Guyol, Jawad Husain, Janine Petito, Molly Zielenbach, Johnna Murphy MPH, Megan Sandel MD, MPH (view abstract and oral presentation powerpoint here)
• Best Student Abstract, 2014 McCahan Medical Campus Education Day, Boston University Medical Center
  • “Assessment of Structured Advocacy Training Integrated into the Third Year Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship.” Louis Yu, M.A., BUSM 2015; Nicole Economou, B.A., BUSM 2015, Erica Holland, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston Medical Center (view abstract here)

PAPERS:

• “A framework for designing training in medical advocacy.” Dworkis DA, Wilbur MB, Sandel MT. Acad Med. 2010 Oct;85(10):1549-50; author reply 1550.
• Premkumar A, Barker A, DeLoureiro A, Sarathy L, & Dworkis DA. 2012. A call from below: Why deeper education in health and human rights is crucial for medical students. Health and Human Rights: An International Journal.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS AND TALKS:

• 2013 John McCahan Medical Education Day, Boston, MA
  • Poverty Simulation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning the Social Determinants of Health. Matthew Fleming, Leela Sarathy, MSEd, and Pamela Tames, JD.

• 5th Biennial Physician Scholars Conference, San Francisco, CA
  • The social history revisited: Advocacy and care of vulnerable populations, Ashish Premkumar (MED) (paper talk).

• 2013 Boston University Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Conference, Boston, MA
  • Promoting Advocacy for Medical and Law Students, Pamela Tames (LAW) & Megan Sandel (MED).

• 2012 John McCahan Medical Education Day, Boston, MA
  • An innovative approach to advocacy training in undergraduate medical education at Boston University School of Medicine. Hugo Carmona, Erin Hendricks Krizman, Daniel A. Dworkis, Chén Kenyon, Robert A. Witzburg.
  • The buATP: Incorporating Social Determinants of Health into Medical Education Through Innovative Partnerships Between Students, Residents and Faculty. Angela Martinez, Diane Haddad, Lauren Fiechtner, Megan Sandel.
  • Letters to the Editor: A Service-Learning Opportunity to Develop Lifelong Skills in Physician Advocacy. Katelyn Fritzges, Matt Flemming, Davida Schiff, Megan Sandel.

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By BUATP Students and Alumni:

SELECT AWARDS:

• 2017-2018 Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow: Jamie Lim (MD ’19)
• 2019 United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Excellence in Public Health Award: Larissa Wenren (MD ’19)

SELECT PAPERS:

• Lim, JK (MD ’19). Implications of agency in studies of self-regulation and obesity (Letter to the Editor). JAMA Pediatr. 2019;173(2):193-194.
• Marcil LE, Hole MK, Wenren LM (MD ’19), Schuler MS, Zuckerman BS, Vinci RJ. Free Tax Services in Pediatric Clinics. Pediatrics. 2018;141(6):e20173608.
• Shakartzi H, Wenren L (MD ’19), Fernandez S, Marino R, Meade M, Pierre-Joseph N, Rodrigues D, St. Omer Roy N, Valle E, Abbott JF. DREAM: empowering preclinical medical students with labor support. MedEdPORTAL Publications. 2018;14:10665.
• Bäck DK, Tammaro E, Lim JK (MD ’19), Wakeman SE. Massachusetts Medical Students Feel Unprepared to Treat Patients with Substance Use Disorder. J Gen Intern Med. 2017;33(3):249-250.
• Lim JK (MD ’19), Bratberg JP, Davis CS, Green TC, Walley AY. Prescribe to Prevent: Naloxone rescue kits for prescribers and pharmacists. J Addict Med. 2016;10(5):300-8.
• Lim JK (MD ’19). A Windbreaker’s Warmth. Ann Intern Med. 2016;165(1):65-66.
• Lim J (MD ’19), Peterson S, Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Maru D. A Rights-Based Approach to Indoor Air Pollution. Health Hum Rights. 2013;15(2):160-7.
• “Barriers to Outpatient Respiratory Therapy Among Adult Residents of Emergency Shelters.” Dworkis DA (MD ’13), Brown SS, et al. Ann Intern Med. 2012 Nov 6;157(9):679-80.
• Premkumar A (MD ’13). “Our message is unequivocal”: The stake of physician advocacy in reproductive health. Aceso 2012 Fall; 1(1):26-29 (access at: http://blogs.bu.edu/busmhs/files/2012/12/Aceso-Fall-2012.pdf)
• Premkumar A (MD ’13). 2013. Representation and Witnessing: In Response to Brian McKenna’s “Medical Education Under Siege” and “The Clash of Medical Civilizations” Anthropology News: National Association of Student Anthropologists (access at: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/04/30/representation-and-witnessing/)