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Boston Medical Center trauma center receives reverification
The trauma center at Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been reverified as a Level-1 Trauma Center, Adult and Pediatric, by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). Established in 1987, the ACS Verification/Consultation Program promotes the development of trauma centers that provide the hospital resources necessary to care for all injured patients. Reverification recognizes the center's dedication to providing optimal care for injured patients. BMC has the largest and busiest 24-hour Level-1 trauma center in New England. Each year, its staff cares for more than 2,000 trauma admissions from Boston and surrounding suburbs in eastern and western Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the Islands, and areas in southern New Hampshire. Last year, more than 900 victims of motor vehicle collisions were treated at the center. Key elements of a Level-1 trauma center include 24-hour in-house coverage by general surgeons, prompt availability of specialty care in orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, radiology, internal medicine, and critical care. Other capabilities include cardiac, hand, pediatric, and microvascular surgery and hemodialysis. In 1994, the center became the first in Boston to be verified by the ACS. It is the longest continuously verified hospital in the city.
CFA announces 2004 Distinguished Alumni Awards
On Friday, April 16, the College of Fine Arts will present its annual Distinguished Alumni Awards. The school of music will recognize Sylvia Alimena (CFA'82), who was voted by Washingtonian magazine to its Music Hall of Fame. She has an active schedule throughout the Washington, D.C., area as music director and conductor of the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra and its scholarship brass ensemble, Brass of Peace, the Friday Morning Music Club Orchestra, and the McLean Orchestra. She also plays the French horn with the National Symphony Orchestra. In 1981 she placed first in BU's Concerto Aria Competition and earned a fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Institute.
The school of theatre arts will honor actor Michael Chiklis (CFA'86), who won an Emmy for best actor for his portrayal of rogue cop Vic Mackey on the FX Network series The Shield and the Television Critics Association award for individual achievement. He starred in The Commish, played a TV sitcom dad on Daddio, and mugged as Curly Howard in a made-for-TV movie about the Three Stooges.
The school of visual arts will recognize landscape painter Jon Imber (CFA'77), who started drawing outdoors with pastels and then began painting in the mid-1990s. In a 1999 interview, Imber describes the transition from pastels to paint as something that allowed him “to learn how to really put myself into the painting in a way that I've never done before, so I think I am totally free now to take a yellow tree and make it green, make a sky purple instead of blue if it makes the painting more exciting.” He exhibits extensively in Boston, the New England area, and galleries across the country.
CFA will present its Distinguished Service to the College Award to Mary Ann Milano (CFA'66). Since 1970, she has owned and operated the Union Oyster House, whose doors have been open to diners since 1826, making it the oldest restaurant in Boston and the oldest restaurant in continuous service in the United States. The Distinguished Faculty Award will be given to Phyllis Hoffman (CFA'61,'67), an associate professor in the school of music, director of the Young Artists Vocal Program, and executive director of Boston University's Tanglewood Institute.
Swimathon to benefit scholarship fund for alum
In 2003, Dana Wright (CAS'00) died in a car accident on the Bourne Bridge. After finishing her studies in the BU Marine Program, with a research interest in right whale acoustics, she became a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod. She also taught swimming lessons and coached swimmers in the Aquasafe Swim Program at the Atria Woodbriar Pool in Falmouth, Mass. On Saturday, May 1, starting at 2 p.m., a swimathon will be held to honor “Coach Dana” and to benefit the Dana Wright Scholarship Fund, which has been established at BU for students in the marine sciences. To sponsor a swimmer or to donate directly to the fund, contact Linette Decarie, SMG planning and analysis program manager, at 617-353-9781 or e-mail decarie@bu.edu. For more information about the swimathon, which is organized by Aquasafe Swim Programs, call 508-539-1977.
9 April 2004
Boston University
Office of University Relations