Dr. Philip Greenland Appointed to New Post Philip Greenland, MD, chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine since 1991, will assume the newly created post of executive associate dean for clinical and translational research, effective September 1. Dr. Greenland will step down as department chair but continue as the[…]

Public Health Director Addresses Long-Term Care With age in today’s graying America comes the wisdom that long-term care needs reform. This “demographic imperative” isn’t lost on the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), Eric E. Whitaker, MD, MPH, who presented the 11th Annual Eckenhoff Lecture, “Long-term Care in Illinois: Financing, Regulation, and[…]

Protein Essential for Hearing Also Vital for Pain Perception The same protein that “translates” sound into nerve signals to the brain and enables individuals to hear is also required for pain perception, researchers from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have found. Because the protein, TRPA1, is found in most—about 75 percent—of the body’s pain-perceiving[…]