Live Tweeting of Mass. Eye and Ear fundraiser. • March 27 2019

New Kids Rock Mass. Eye & Ear's Sense-Ation Gala

In one of my more enjoyable assignments while at the Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary, I live-tweeted the New Kids on the Block (NKOTB) performance at the 2015 Sense-Ation Gala, the hospital's annual fundraiser.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Internal Communications Campaign • March 20 2019

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Staff Survey Posters

The goal of this internal communications campaign was to encourage employees to take the staff survey. Where most hospital staff were mobile, we took an old-school approach by using printed posters as the primary communications channel.

Musings Blog (Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary) • March 17 2019

Blindness is Just Another Way of Seeing

In a TEDx Cambridge talk, Dr. Lotfi Merabet discusses blindness and how he and his team are developing new methods of helping sightless children learn how to navigate unfamiliar surroundings.

Musings Blog (Mass. Eye & Ear Infirmary) • March 14 2019

Dr. Joe Rizzo Explains Science Behind #TheDress

Black and blue or gold and white? In late February, this was the burning question on the minds of millions as an innocent Tumblr post about a dress color went viral on social media. Fortunately, Joe Rizzo, M.D., of Mass. Eye and Ear was able to explain the science behind #TheDress to WBZ-TV and National Geographic.

DFCI Online • March 13 2019

DFCI Welcomes Back its Beloved Jimmy Fund Auditorium

After being shuttered for nearly a year, dusty and stripped of its seats and walls, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s storied lecture hall – the Jimmy Fund Auditorium – recently began the first day of the rest of its life.

Berg Breakthroughs (Employee Newsletter) • March 5 2019

Berg 'Plays Tag' with EB Patient

Earlier this fall, Berg teamed with "debra of America" to use social media to brighten the day of a young EB patient, Ella, who has always wanted to play tag.

Berg Breakthroughs (Employee Newsletter) • March 5 2019

CLIA Lab Earns First Perfect Rating in Company History

Although it’s commonly accepted wisdom that nobody – or nothing – is perfect, this logic no longer applies to BERG’s CLIA Laboratory, which earned a perfect rating from a government regulator on Thursday, Aug. 17.

Berg Breakthroughs (Employee Newsletter) • March 5 2019

Nagpal Visits Berg to Discuss GBM Clinical Trial

When Seema Nagpal, M.D., visited Berg's offices in April to discuss the glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) clinical trial that was recently launched at Stanford University, the neuro-oncologist quickly captured the attention of her audience with a beautiful baby picture.

Berg Health Press Release • March 5 2019

Berg to Present Clinical Data at ESMO 2017

New data demonstrates the benefits of BPM 31510 for pancreatic cancer patients and BPM 31543 for those suffering from chemotherapy-induced Alopecia (CIA).

DFCI Online (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Intranet) • August 10 2018

Annual Jimmy Fund Radiothon Surpasses $1.5 million

Moments before the third annual radiothon ended at midnight, a last-minute cavalcade of callers pushed the total raised for patient care and research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to more than $1.5 million, far surpassing the $1 million total targeted by the Jimmy Fund.

Northeastern University Voice (Faculty/Staff Newspaper) • July 6 2018

Aggressive Research on Steroids

Professor Rich Melloni and grad assistant Jill Grimes have linked chronic steroid abuse with overly aggressive behavior in steroid-treated adolescent male Syrian hamsters. According to their most recent research, which was published in the October 2001 issue of "Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior," the aggression is caused, in part, by below-average amounts of serotonin, a brain neurochemical associated with impulse control.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inside the Institute (Employee Newsletter) • July 5 2018

Webcast Puts Spotlight on Mesothelioma Surgery

As part of the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) surgical webcast series, Dr. David Sugarbaker, chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at BWH, conducted an extrapleural pneumonectomy live on the Web.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inside the Institute (Employee Newsletter) • July 5 2018

With a Little Help from Her DFCI Friends, Levine Proves There's Life After Cancer

Fourteen years after her near-death experience with malignant pleural mesothelioma, an aggressive thoracic cancer most frequently associated with asbestos exposure, Levine is the longest-living survivor of this cancer, which typically carries a very bleak diagnosis.