Student Visionaries Create Nonprofit Organization Several globally minded medical students believe that one good model of care deserves another one just like it, especially when it comes to curing blindness in developing countries. Forming the nonprofit organization CatarACT, these students from Northwestern intend to combat the vision-robbing ravages of untreated cataracts by borrowing a solution[…]

New Chief of Surgical Oncology Announced David M. Mahvi, MD, has joined Northwestern as chief of surgical oncology and professor of surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, as well as a member of the Robert H. Lure Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. Dr. Mahvi is on the medical staff of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.[…]

Students Serve the Community through Heartland Alliance The skills and privileges physicians acquire as they learn and practice medicine put them in a unique position in society. They are allowed to hear the most intimate details of the lives of people they may have just met. Physicians are welcomed around the world when they volunteer[…]