Network with Current Medical Students

The annual Alumni/Student Networking Event, hosted by the BMAA Board of Directors, offers current Alpert medical students the chance to meet alumni and ask them questions about choosing a specialty, surviving residency, maintaining work-life balance, and other hot topics. The reception will include a round-robin session that will allow students to speak to many different Brown medical alumni about their experiences and careers. Want to share your expertise? Contact Bethany Solomon at Bethany_Solomon@brown.edu or 401-863-1635.

Alumni/Student Networking Event
5:30 – 7 p.m., Saturday, February 1, 2014
Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St., Providence, RI

Call for Nominations

The BMAA is accepting nominations for awards and honors that will be presented to outstanding alumni, faculty, and friends at Reunion 2014.

The four BMAA awards and honors (the Artemis Joukowsky Award, W.W. Keen Award, Ruth B. Sauber Distinguished Alumni Lecturer, and Early Achievement Award) recognize members of the Alpert Medical School community who serve the School or its mission. Read more about past awardees and then submit your nomination for a deserving 2014 recipient.

And be sure to attend Reunion, May 23-25, 2014, and the weekend’s Opening Celebration to see the award presentation!

Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Advisory Group

The new Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Advisory Group was convened to address diversity within medicine and science. Its mission includes providing guidance and support to increase the number of students, residents, and faculty from minority groups that are underrepresented in medicine. Associate Dean for Diversity Jabbar R. Bennett, PhD, oversees the committee, which includes alumni representatives Jeffrey F. Hines ’83 MD’86 and Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, MPH ’00 MD’05.

The BMAA will work with this group to develop programs to better serve the Brown medical community. We are interested in hearing from alumni who want to be involved and are seeking guest speakers and ideas for events, as well as ways to further build this community. Please contact Bethany Solomon at Bethany_Solomon@brown.edu or 401-863-1635 with any suggestions or if you would like to learn more.

Lisa Goldstein ’78 MD’82 RES’86

From labeling test tubes and filing slides as a 12-year-old volunteer, to lab work during her student days at Brown, to her role today as assistant pathologist, Lisa Goldstein has quietly worked behind the scenes at The Miriam Hospital in Providence.

Earlier this year, the hospital recognized Goldstein’s decades of service with the 2013 Charles C. J. Carpenter, MD, Outstanding Physician of the Year Award—a recognition for her clinical expertise as well as her dedication to teaching.

"I was truly surprised, honored, and quite humbled to receive this prestigious award usually awarded to amazing active hands-on clinicians," says Goldstein, who is also a clinical assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Alpert Medical School.

The recipient of many teaching awards over the years, Goldstein also serves on a number of hospital and University committees. Yet she makes time in her busy schedule for Brown and the Medical School. Lisa has served the Brown Medical Alumni Association Board of Directors since 2006, including two years as secretary. In addition, she now serves as a BMAA representative on the Brown Alumni Association Board of Governors.

These experiences allow her to learn more about Brown and medical education nationally while relaying the Rhode Island experience to her fellow Board members, she says.

"I see myself as a friendly conduit between the Medical School administration, the medical students, and the undergraduate University," Goldstein says of her role on the BMAA Board. But ultimately, she got involved to give back. "I am very grateful for my Brown medical education and want to ‘pay it forward,’" she says.