NIH’s Nabel Speaks on Genomics at Feinberg Lecture At the Feinberg Lecture reception, keynote speaker Dr. Elizabeth Nabel joins Dr. Francis Klocke, director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute. Americans have experienced a decline in heart disease in the past several decades, and the future holds even more innovative therapies to prevent heart attacks and[…]

February 28, 2006 Let Patients Describe Race/Ethnicity CHICAGO—Allowing patients to use their own terms to describe their race or ethnicity for medical records may help reduce differences in how health care is provided to racial and ethnic minorities versus whites, according to a study in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health.[…]

In Memoriam (Charles Staley) Charles J. “Tod” Staley, MD, associate professor emeritus of surgery at the Feinberg School, died February 19 at his Barrington, Illinois, home. He was 85. A general surgeon with special training in cancer surgery, Dr. Staley joined the medical school in 1954 and was promoted to associate professor in 1965. He[…]