Alumni
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CONTACT US: If you have news, announcements, or creative works you’d like to share with your fellow alumni, please write to the BUSM Alumni Association at 72 E. Concord Street, L120, Boston, MA 02118 or email us at alumbusm@bu.edu.
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Boston University School of Medicine
his year, the Alumni Association board came together virtually to dive into alumni engagement, including how we ought to measure it, how can we make it meaningful for our diverse alumni, and how we can strengthen engagement within our community. While the main goals are to increase alumni connection—including through readership of the monthly E-News and the school magazine, meaningful volunteer activities with current students, and strengthening our community to further inclusion—our overarching mission is to represent our alumni to the best of our ability and promote a culture that welcomes and engages all alumni, students, and faculty. We desire a lifelong relationship with our alumni, and we want you to feel connected. We want to be relevant to you and aim to build and provide inclusive programming, events, and digital offerings to connect, support, and engage you. This focus will ensure the school continues to provide meaningful opportunities for you and your fellow alumni. The board developed an alumni engagement survey asking for your feedback. One initiative that came of our work was improving our connections through the use of class notes. We increased the frequency of the “ask” and created different ways of asking. Thank you to those who have shared their news (see page 42). You’ve helped provide insight into what is important to you, and we learned we can do better by creating opportunities for you to enrich the lives of our current students and your fellow alumni. You also helped us identify several key
ways to build and sustain a culture of alumni engagement. A special thank-you to members of the alumni board, who made this work happen. Looking forward, please save the dates of September 30–October 2, 2022, for MED Alumni Weekend (this is also University Alumni Weekend). Stay tuned and watch your inbox to hear more about the three distinguished alumni we will recognize at an in-person luncheon and ceremony on Friday, September 30: • Gail D’Onofrio, MD (SON’75, MED’87) [Par COM’12, CGS’10] for her outstanding career in emergency medicine • Daniel Rotrosen, MD (MED’78) for his outstanding career in infectious diseases and internal medicine • Drew Weissman, MD, PhD (MED’87, GRS’87) for his outstanding career in allergy, immunology, and infectious diseases As part of the celebration, our three award recipients will participate in an interactive panel discussion with alumni, faculty, and students. Engagement requires a mutual commitment. We look forward to continuing to learn from and work with you. Best,
Heather Miselis, MED’04, MA/MPH’00 She/her/hers Assistant Dean for Alumni Affairs Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Principal Investigator, Boston University Community Health Alliance of Medical Professionals (BU CHAMPs)
