In Memoriam (James Wolf) James S. Wolf, MD, professor emeritus of surgery, former director of transplantation surgery, and former associate dean for education at Northwestern University’s medical school, died on August 6 in South Carolina. He was 72. A native of Chicago, he graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa before receiving his MD degree from[…]

August 1, 2007 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Method Shows Promise for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer EVANSTON, Ill.—Optical technology developed by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer shown to be effective in the early detection of colon cancer now appears promising for detecting pancreatic cancer, the fourth most common cause of cancer[…]

Nat Soper Named Surgery Chair Just one year after he began serving as interim chair of the Department of Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Nathaniel J. Soper, MD, became the permanent chair on July 1. An Iowa native, Dr. Soper received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Victoria[…]