Gift Opportunities
To achieve its full potential of excellence in research, education, and clinical care and to best serve the residents of Western New York, the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (SMBS) must attract and retain top faculty and top students, provide innovative and affordable medical education, and conduct pioneering, state-of-the art research and clinical programs. These goals can be achieved by investment in:
L. Nelson Hopkins III, MD, Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery Read More
Endowed Chairs
Endowed chairs are essential to recruit and retain visionary department leaders who serve to build robust departments of exceptional basic and clinical scientists, educators, and clinicians and also attract the best students. Departments are the keystones of the SMBS and define its strength. Each of the 26 departments merits leadership at the endowed chair level.
Simulation Center
Simulation Center
Simulated clinical experiences have assumed an essential role in medical education and training. Sophisticated technology has enabled manufacturers to produce precise and authentic models that allow faculty to teach procedures in a controlled way as part of the curriculum. In addition, resident training and the training of other health care professionals can be enriched by access to simulators. The SMBS, in concert with the Schools of Nursing, Dental Medicine, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Public Health and Health Professions plan a simulation infrastructure to support students in the health sciences and in graduate medical education (interns, residents and fellows). A state-of-the-art simulation infrastructure can also be used to support practicing physicians and other health care professionals throughout the Buffalo-Niagara medical corridor.
Educational Space
Butler Auditorium
Scholarship
Lillian Marsh, Greco Scholarship recipient
Medical school tuition and fees have risen much faster than inflation over the years, even at public universities such as the UB, where medical students today graduate with an average debt of more than $120,000. Scholarship support has become a critical factor in a student's decision-making process about which medical school to attend. The best students often receive full scholarships from universities that are able to offer more support because of well-established endowments. In addition, adequate scholarship support would allow students to make decisions about specialties and sub-specialties based on their skills and passions, not potential salary.
To give UB the advantage in medical student recruitment and to help achieve its goal of recruiting top students, it must increase scholarship support to a level that is competitive with that offered by peer institutions. According to data gathered by the Association of American Medical Colleges, UB will be well-served by offering scholarships to three categories of medical students--those who demonstrate need, those who demonstrate merit, and those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds - and to do so with scholarships that are competitive with New York State peer institutions' median levels of annual support.
Dean's Innovation Fund
Michael Cain, MD, Dean of UB SMBS
Medical and technological advancements coupled with the intellectual inquiry of faculty present opportunities for the medical school to advance rapidly in its research, teaching and clinical mission. The dean of the medical school can facilitate these advances by an ability to respond rapidly and with flexibility to ideas as they arise during the course of the academic year. Funds will be used to launch innovative pilot programs in education; provide seed funding for fledgling research ideas that will pave the way for large government and private grants; underwrite promising new clinical ventures; and purchase and test equipment for broad application. Funds can also be used to support faculty and student recruiting initiatives throughout the school.
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