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Feinberg Student Group Presents Healthcare Innovation Projects

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Members of the student organization Second Opinions recently gathered for a Poster Showcase to highlight their projects and collaborative work.

Second Opinions, a student-led organization at Feinberg School of Medicine, founded in 2015 by three first-year medical students, operates with a dual mission: to enhance the health of Chicago’s underserved communities and to provide invaluable experiential learning for future physicians. The group achieves this by offering strategic analysis and results-driven insights to local healthcare organizations, while immersing Feinberg medical students in hands-on opportunities to tackle complex organizational challenges within the healthcare sector.

Second Opinions utilizes the management consulting model of engagement: small teams of medical students work collaboratively with clinics to address specific strategic and operational challenges. The group’s services are enhanced by connections to quality improvement experts at Feinberg’s primary teaching affiliate, Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

“Second Opinions has been an awesome way to both learn about a different side of healthcare and make a difference in our community on a more systemic level,” said first-year medical student, Aden Goolsbee, president of Second Opinions. “I have really enjoyed learning more about community health and quality improvement as well as being able to interact with healthcare professionals around Chicago. I feel like it has been a really unique way for me to get involved in the community as a medical student.”

First-year students Elizabeth Kayzman and Aditya Khandeshi showcase their project, “Leveraging Rideshare to Assess Transportation Barriers for CommunityHealth.”
First-year students Elizabeth Kayzman and Aditya Khandeshi showcase their project, “Leveraging Rideshare to Assess Transportation Barriers for CommunityHealth.” The students’ specific research plan involves a simple, iterative framework that will utilize CommunityHealth’s own data to identify specific criteria and benchmarks to identify patients that might benefit from rideshare credits based on previous literature review. Khandeshi and Kayzman said they hope that with this framework, CommunityHealth will have a model unique to their clinics and the patient population they directly serve that will efficiently aid their patients in adhering to appointment schedules and overcome transportation challenges.
First-year students Nikhil Sriram and Marianne Kanaris present findings in their project, “Initiating Medications During Hospitalization and Strategies for Ensuring Linkage at Discharge for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder for NM INSITE.”
First-year students Nikhil Sriram and Marianne Kanaris present findings in their project, “Initiating Medications During Hospitalization and Strategies for Ensuring Linkage at Discharge for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder for NM INSITE.”
Christopher Meng presents his research project, “Health Literacy Screening Tools for ACCESS Community Health.”
Nikhil Sriram and Marianne Kanaris discuss their research findings during the Second Opinions Poster Showcase.
Nikhil Sriram and Marianne Kanaris discuss their research findings during the Second Opinions Poster Showcase.
Julie Elfishawy and Aden Goolsbee pose next to their research presentation, “Sustainability Improvement and Erie Family Health Centers.”
Julie Elfishawy and Aden Goolsbee pose next to their research presentation, “Sustainability Improvement and Erie Family Health Centers.”
First-year medical students, Aditya Khandeshi, Madeline Owen, Elizabeth Kayzman, Julie Elfishawy, Nikhil Sriram, Christopher Meng, Marianne Kanaris and Aden Goolsbee presented posters at the Second Opinions Poster Showcase.
First-year medical students, Aditya Khandeshi, Madeline Owen, Elizabeth Kayzman, Julie Elfishawy, Nikhil Sriram, Christopher Meng, Marianne Kanaris and Aden Goolsbee presented posters at the Second Opinions Poster Showcase.