Eight UMass Chan faculty members were honored during the 26th annual Women’s Faculty Committee Awards on May 21.

Ekaterina Pivovarova, PhD, is a principal investigator on a five-year, $8 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

As part of an initiative to help reduce unnecessary waste, students, faculty and staff participated in a 24-hour trash audit at UMass Memorial Medical Center.  

The five-year study is funded by a $3.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health. 

Martha Zimmermann, PhD, will be testing the text message intervention Reaching Calm at four obstetric practices.

Stephanie Carreiro, MD, PhD’22, received a new NIH award to advance precision medicine research in opioid use disorder and mentor junior clinician-scientists. 

Four faculty members were honored with chancellor's medals at the annual Convocation and Investiture ceremony. 

The pilot program is expected to impact up to 600 area residents in 13 communities, including Worcester.  

Eleven teams of medical students, faculty members, residents and staff are the recipients of the 2025 Remillard Family Community Service Fund grants.

Stephanie Carreiro, MD, received a $50,000 grant from the Mass. Life Sciences Center to advance digital tools that expand access to substance use disorder care.

The Junior Faculty Development Program is the longest-running professional development program at UMass Chan.

A roundtable panel, led by Rep. McGovern and Dean Flotte, discussed the immediate impacts of potential cuts to NIH funding.

Mary Ahn, MD; Kavita Babu, MD; and Milagros Rosal, PhD, completed executive leadership programs.

Four faculty members were honored with chancellor’s medals, and seven others were invested as named professors at the annual Convocation and Investiture celebration.

Festivities kick off on Friday, Sept. 6, with the T.H. Chan School of Medicine White Coat Ceremony, welcoming the new class of medical students into the medical community.

The UMass Chan Medical School chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society inducted 36 new members on Wednesday, May 29.  

The annual awards are sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Women’s Faculty Committee of the Diversity and Inclusion Office.  

The 12-month program is the longest-running professional development program at UMass Chan Medical School and has nearly 300 graduates.

Researchers in UMass Chan Medical School’s Center for Microbiome Research are exploring the causal mechanisms by which bacteria in the gut influence chronic illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and Crohn’s disease and in autoimmune disorders and other conditions.

In a new Voices of UMass Chan podcast, John P. Haran, MD’07, PhD’18, and Ethan Loew, MD/PhD student, shed light on their ongoing research to better understand the connection between the gut microbiome and cognitive health, particularly how it impacts older people.

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Twenty-five junior faculty members at UMass Chan Medical School completed the Junior Faculty Development Program on May 18.

Seven women were honored for career achievements in science and health care during the 23rd annual Women’s Faculty Awards at UMass Chan Medical School.

In a piece written for The Conversation, medical toxicologist Kavita Babu, MD, explains how xylazine increases overdose risk and why Narcan can still save a life.

Kavita Babu, MD, was a co-author of a recent study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on toxicological analyses of blood specimens from roadway users who were seriously or fatally injured in motor vehicle crashes.

Evan S. Bradley, MD, PhD and Vanni Bucci, PhD, of the Program in Microbial Dynamics at UMass Chan, established a link between the oral microbiome and COVID-19 in patients needing in-hospital respiratory support.

John P. Haran, MD, PhD, is studying neurological long-COVID symptoms in working-age, generally healthy people who were vaccinated prior to infection.

Kavita Babu, MD, professor of emergency medicine, writes for The Conversation about illicitly manufactured fentanyl that is driving the increasing number of opioid overdose deaths.

Wide variation in the amount or infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 among people in early stages of COVID-19 may be an explanation for the phenomenon of “super spreaders,” according to new research. Research co-author Laura Gibson, MD, talks about the findings. 

Six projects organized by T.H. Chan School of Medicine and Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing student have received Mick Huppert Community Health Scholar Awards for 2022.

UMass Chan Medical School students are working to support community efforts to assist Afghan refugees in Worcester. 

Research by John P. Haran, MD, PhD, and Evan S. Bradley, MD, PhD, at UMass Chan Medical School, shows that patients with persistent long-COVID symptoms have oral microbiomes with a significantly higher abundance of bacteria that induce inflammation.

UMass Medical School’s 162 new medical students can administer COVID-19 vaccines thanks to their School of Medicine and Graduate School of Nursing student trainers.

A longitudinal study co-authored by UMass Medical School researchers as part of the National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative reported that PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 and rapid antigen testing were equally effective in detecting infection when tests were given at least twice per week.

Preliminary data published this month from a surveillance project conducted at UMass Medical School evaluating the effectiveness of two COVID vaccines played a critical role in new guidelines by the CDC that no longer require fully vaccinated individuals to wear masks.

The annual awards honoring achievements in early career development, clinical service, mentoring, science and health, education, and community service, were presented during virtual proceedings on Monday, May 24.

The annual awards honoring achievements in early career development, clinical service, mentoring, science and health, education, and community service, were presented during virtual proceedings on Monday, May 24.

A new Voices of UMassMed podcast featuring Steven Bird, MD, provides an overview of the Clinician Experience Office, a mental health support network for caregivers.

New research by Kaleido Biosciences, Inc., and UMass Medical School’s John P. Haran, MD, PhD, and Beth McCormick, PhD, shows that the company’s microbiome metabolic therapy candidate produced positive results in patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19.

Kendall Burdick, SOM ’23, is studying geographic and racial disparities in access to pediatric trauma care with a Medical Student Research Grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

John P. Haran, MD, PhD, explains research into coronavirus mutations, what is known about vaccines’ ability to fend off the new strains and the implications for what we can all do to stay healthy.

UMass Medical School is responding to hesitancy among the Worcester-area community about getting COVID-19 vaccines with an ongoing series of public listening and learning events.

Edwin Boudreaux, PhD, is leading a new study to evaluate the use of telehealth to improve suicide-related outcomes.

UMass Medical School researchers have been awarded a $3.3 million, four-year National Institute on Aging grant to explore new understanding of how the gut microbiome influences cognitive functioning among elders living with Alzheimer’s disease.