Appointments, Honors & Awards

David M. Greer, MD,

Appointed Secretary of Neurocritical Care Society

Chair of Neurology David M. Greer, MD, MA, was appointed secretary of the Neurocritical Care Society (NCS), effective October 2022.

The NCS is the only professional society representing multidisciplinary teams of neurocritical care providers around the world whose mission is to improve outcomes for patients with life-threatening neurological illnesses. Comprising physicians, nurses, pharmacists, advanced practice providers, researchers, and scientists, the neurocritical care team serves patients with life-threatening brain and spinal cord emergencies and injuries, using training in areas like advanced brain and nervous system monitoring and pharmacotherapy, with one goal—to bring their collective knowledge to drive the best possible outcomes.

Greer, who also serves as chief of neurology at Boston Medical Center, has research interests that include predicting recovery from coma after cardiac arrest, brain death, targeted temperature management for acute brain injuries, and multiple stroke-related topics including acute stroke treatment and stroke prevention. He is a leader in the Neurocritical Care Society, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the American Academy of Neurology.

He received his BA in English Literature from Williams College, an MA in English Literature and MD from the University of Florida, and an MA privatim from Yale University. He completed his internship in internal medicine and residency in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), followed by fellowship training in vascular neurology and neurocritical care, also at MGH.

Greer is the editor-in-chief of Seminars in Neurology and a fellow of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, American Academy of Neurology, American Heart Association, American Neurological Association, and Neurocritical Care Society. He has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews, chapters, guidelines, and books.

Aram Kaligian, MD, MPH, Named Director, BU-Armenia Medical Partnership

Aram Kaligian, MD, MPH, assistant professor of family medicine, has been named director of the BU-Armenia Medical Partnership, succeeding Richard Babayan, MD, professor and chairman emeritus of urology.

The partnership was formed in 1991 by then-Dean (now President Emeritus) Aram Chobanian, MD, to help improve medical care and education in the Republic of Armenia. The primary activities include facilitating medical school faculty exchanges and a fourth-year medical student elective rotation in Armenia and helping develop medical school curricula in Armenia.

Formerly director of the Family Medicine Inpatient Service at Boston Medical Center, Kaligian has a primary care practice at South Boston Community Health Center. His activities in Armenia have included retraining physicians in primary care as part of a USAID program and conducting a public health study in Nagorno-Karabagh. He received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his MD and MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine.

Toby C. Chai, MD, Elected Trustee of American Board of Urology

Toby C. Chai, MD, chair of urology, was elected a trustee of the American Board of Urology (ABU) to a six-year term starting February

23, 2023. Chai was nominated to the ABU by the American Urological Association (AUA).

Chai, also chief of urology at Boston Medical Center, has been actively involved in urologic research to seek improvements in urologic care. He received career development awards from the American Foundation for Urologic Diseases and a K08 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) prior to receiving independently funded, investigator-initiated research awards from the NIH as principal investigator including R01, U01, and P20 grant mechanisms.

He has been recognized for his academic accomplishments including the Society of Basic Urologic Research Young Investigator Award; the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction Zimskind Award and Distinguished Service Award; the AUA Victor A. Politano Award for outstanding work in treatment of urinary incontinence and innovations in bladder research, and the Distinguished Service Award for work on urologic research advocacy. He has also received the Continence Champion Award from the advocacy group National Association for Continence.

Chai serves as an associate editor for Journal of Urology and on the editorial board for American Journal of Physiology—Renal Physiology. He has served as both a charter and ad hoc member of numerous NIH grant review committees and was a charter member for the US Food and Drug Administration Bone, Reproductive, and Urologic Drug Advisory Committee.

Founded in 1935, the American Board of Urology acts for the benefit of the public by establishing and maintaining standards of certification for urologists, working with certified urologists to achieve lifelong learning to ensure the delivery of high-quality, safe, and ethical urologic care. Six urologic societies nominate to the ABU and sponsor its activities, including the American Urological Association, the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons, the American Association of Clinical Urologists, the American College of Surgeons, the Society of Academic Urologists, and the Societies for Pediatric Urology. ●