BOSTON - The Â鶹ÊÓƵ today announced the launch of a new system-wide initiative to make courses on each of its campuses available to students on all UMass campuses.
When you exhale through your surgical mask, your breath barely travels a few inches before it is pushed down to the floor by overhead fans and sucked into return vents.
The room’s air is exchanged once every minute through ultra-low particulate filters that block out anything larger than a micron, or one-millionth of a meter. That’s much too fine for respiratory droplets, which measure a relatively rotund 5 to 10 microns.
, clinical assistant professor of , had one child in kindergarten and another in fourth grade when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools last spring. Suddenly, her children were home 24/7 and attending classes online.
She also had to continue doing her own job – teaching college students at regular class times – online.
With a growing relationship between the VA Central Western Â鶹ÊÓƵ Healthcare System and UMass Medical School in mind, Kristin Mattocks, PhD, MPH, has been appointed to the new position of associate dean for veterans affairs at UMMS, according to Terence R. Flotte, MD, executive deputy chancellor, provost and dean of the School of Medicine.
UMass Medical School has announced six members of the Medical School faculty who comprise the 2020-21 cohort of Dr. Marcellette G. Williams Distinguished Scholars, according to Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Dean Terence R. Flotte.
I am saddened to learn of the passing of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph Gants. Over the course of his 40-year legal career, Chief Justice Gants distinguished himself as a trailblazer in the legal profession and an outspoken defender of civil rights. It was a great privilege to present the Chief Justice with a UMass School of Law honorary degree in 2016.
Kimberly A. Yonkers, MD, an innovative and visionary leader in the interdisciplinary fields connecting psychiatry and women’s health, will join UMass Medical School and UMass Memorial Health Care as chair and professor of psychiatry on Nov. 1, according to Terence R. Flotte, MD, executive deputy chancellor, provost and dean of the School of Medicine.
Oluwabunmi Emidio, MD, MPH, is a PhD candidate in the , and a postdoctoral fellow in a National Cancer Institute-funded training program (). Dr. Emidio wears many hats: doctor, scientist and mother.
Adam Corl, a Doctor of Nursing Practice student in the , found his passion for medicine and health care through his undergraduate experiences at UMass Amherst, and then UMass Boston, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology in 2010.
Milagros C. Rosal, PhD, professor of population & quantitative health sciences in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, has been appointed to the newly created position of vice provost for health equity at UMass Medical School, according to announcement by Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Provost Terence R. Flotte. In her new role, which begins immediately, Dr. Rosal reports to the provost with a direct advisory role to the chancellor.