Year: 2014
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Studying the Structural Causes and Consequences of Whiplash
Northwestern Medicine scientists have received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the biological reasons that a quarter of all people with whiplash injury from motor vehicle collisions fail to fully recover in the long-term.
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Four Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows
Four Feinberg faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
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Restricting Surgical Residents’ Hours Doesn’t Improve Outcomes
A study of U.S. hospitals revealed that 2011 restrictions on resident duty hours did not improve surgery patients’ outcomes, one of the first national evaluations of the results of the restrictions.
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Student Societies Connect Medical Students with Alumni
Feinberg’s student societies, a network of students across all four years of medical school, are hosting a series of Q and A conversations with alumni as part of a new program called “Real Physicians of Feinberg.”
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Tackling Gender and Sex Issues in Medical Education
Feinberg faculty members helped create new guidelines from the Association of American Medical Colleges for medical schools and academic medical centers to improve health care for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or who are born with differences of sex development.
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Evaluating Testosterone Replacement in Men With HIV
A new Northwestern Medicine study found that testosterone replacement in the United States is more than twice as common among HIV-infected men than the general population.
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Physician Assistant Students Explore Day of the Dead Traditions
First-year physician assistant students visited Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood to learn about Mexican culture and Day of the Dead traditions.
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Longer Surgery Means Higher Blood Clot Risk
Recent Northwestern Medicine research shows that longer surgeries are associated with a higher risk of dangerous blood clots, a consistent trend across all procedures.
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Disentangling the Dopaminergic System
Northwestern Medicine scientists have found several molecularly distinct subtypes of dopamine neurons – important nerve cells associated with many diverse behaviors and diseases.
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Alzheimer’s “Buddies” Share their Experience
Jared Worthington, second-year medical student, Jean Schmidt Winship, program manager in the Physician Assistant Program and her husband presented on The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s Buddy Program at the Canadian Health Summit in Toronto.
