Research Takes Center Stage

The BWH Research Career Development Committee staged the fifth BWH Research Poster Exhibition last month in the Cabot Atrium at 45 Francis St., marking the first time the event has been held outside of Carrie Hall. The exhibition showcased 35 posters detailing just a fraction of the groundbreaking research going on here at BWH.

“Our committee wanted to move the poster exhibition here from Carrie Hall for two reasons. First, we want to bring the research into the main stream of the hospital and welcome patients and visitors into the event, and second, this space will allow us to showcase more posters in the future,” said Michael Brenner, MD, chair of the Research Council. Joanne Ingwall, PhD, Julie Buring, PhD, and Paul Allen, MD, PhD serve as co-chairs of the Research Career Development Committee, the sponsor of the June 24 poster exhibition.

Ingwall pointed to posters from Patient Care Services and Pharmacology as representative of how scientific discoveries shape and affect patient care. “These posters illustrate just a few of the ways BWH is bringing science to medicine,” she said.

The judges-Drs. Brenner, Glowacki, Kupper, and Pfeffer-selected eight posters of distinction: Natalie Leach, PhD, Pathology; Monserrat Samso, PhD, Anesthesia; Koichi Fukunaga, MD, PhD, Dermatology; Nancy Cho, MD, Surgery; Axel Finckh, MD, Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy; Shannon Heitritter, MD, Endocrinology; and Kirsten Hoyer, PhD, Cardiology.

“Much of the work on display here has been presented at national and international meetings,” Gottlieb said. “You, along with your mentors, are a source of great pride to the BWH. The heart and soul of what we do here is our desire and curiosity to discover, and it's only fitting that we have this here in the Cabot-the heart of our hospital - where the patients and visitors may see some of our cutting edge.”