Year: 2014
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Exploring How Diabetes Promotes Heart Disease
A new Northwestern Medicine study identified the pathway that mediates the link between diabetes and cardiomyopathy.
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Area of Scholarly Concentration Enhances Medical Education
Students and faculty mentors share the importance of the Area of Scholarly Concentration, a four-year longitudinal project in biomedical research or a medically related field, as part of the new curriculum.
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Specific White Blood Cells May Induce Rheumatoid Arthritis
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that a specific type of white blood cell’s behavior may explain how rheumatoid arthritis develops.
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Signs of ALS Detected in the Eye
Northwestern Medicine scientists identified the same protein deposits that are usually found in the brains of ALS patients in the retina, opening a new potential avenue for diagnosing and tracking the disease.
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New Method Tests Effectiveness of MS Treatments
Northwestern Medicine scientists created a more objective, precise and quicker way to test the effectiveness of multiple sclerosis drugs that may promote the repair of myelin, a protective sheath on neurons.
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3-D Printed Models Provide Lifelike Simulations for Training Pediatric Surgeons
Katherine Barsness, MD, ’11 MS, created life-sized, reusable models of a newborn’s ribcage with 3-D printing technology to provide uniquely authentic simulation-based education to training pediatric surgeons.
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Improving Patient Medication Information through Better Design
Northwestern Medicine investigators found that redesigning the instructions that accompany prescribed medications increases patient comprehension, helping to ensure that drugs with serious side effects are used safely.
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Thomas Receives Family Medicine Teaching Award
Alisha Thomas, ’05 MD, instructor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine, received the 2014 Illinois Family Medicine Teacher of the Year Award by the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians for her outstanding contributions to the field.
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Physician Assistants Celebrate a Growing Profession
The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) program raised awareness about the training and career of PAs as part of National Physician Assistant Week.
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Faculty Wins Grant to Develop Sensors that Prevent Smoking Relapse and Overeating
Feinberg has been awarded a grant to develop wearable health sensors that prevent smoking relapse and overeating, as part of a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) Big Data initiative.
