Addie Boone, a second-year medical student, received one of 31 Schweitzer Fellowships, which support public health research. She will use the award to develop a partnership between the medical school, Northwestern University Law School, and community clinics to help underserved patients with poorly-controlled asthma encourage their landlords to comply with habitability laws.
Browsing: Education
The 161 members of the Class of 2013 celebrated their commencement ceremony with friends, family, and faculty at Chicago’s Navy Pier Grand Ballroom on May 23.
Seventeen awards were presented to students and faculty at the inaugural event on May 22. Gaurava Agarwal, MD, instructor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was honored as its first keynote speaker.
Members of the Physician Assistant Program earned Master of Medical Science degrees on May 18.
Students sought advice about life as a female medical professional from faculty members during the annual spring tea event hosted by Feinberg’s American Women’s Medical Association and the Women’s Faculty Organization.
As one of eight centers in the Institute for Public Health and Medicine, the CCH will facilitate multi-disciplinary, partnered efforts to envision and investigate a frontier of medicine that integrates public policy and population health.
Held in conjunction with National Women’s Health Week, the event featured a lecture, poster session, and vendor fair.
Four medical school faculty members were elected into two prestigious professional societies, the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Event provides the opportunity for students and researchers to learn more about the important aging and dementia research taking place at Northwestern.
Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD, a distinguished investigator of international stature whose research has had a transformative impact in the area of neurodegenerative diseases, will join Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on July 1 as Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor, chair of the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, and director of the newly established Center for Rare Diseases.