Reunion Weekend a Big SuccessAlumni Weekend attracted more than 435 alumni and their guests to the medical school April 19â20. Keen interest in Northwestern’s progress made a state-of-the-school address, presented by Senior Executive Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey C. Miller, a major attraction. Strongly attended, the update generated “lively discussion,” reported Assistant Dean for Alumni Relations Ginny Darakjian. A new campus demonstration in the minimally invasive surgery skills laboratory gave attendees an opportunity to experience a virtual reality trainer. The ever-popular tours of Chicago attractions such as the Adler Planetarium and Museum of Science and Industry had many…
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Students Recognized with FellowshipsFour first-year medical students have been selected to participate in the 2002â03 Chicago Schweitzer Fellowship Program. They are Sara B. Busarow of Racine, Wisconsin; Benjamin Levi of Highland Park, Illinois; Carla A. Morgan, of Valparaiso, Indiana: and Anna E. Ringwelski, of Budd Lake, New Jersey. They and 23 colleagues from other Chicago schools will engage in year-long projects to provide health care to underserved populations in Chicago. Third-year student Shad Thaxton of Las Animas, Colorado, is the recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute student research fellowship. Working with Chad A. Mirkin, PhD, George B. Rathmann Professor…
Women Faculty Organization Promotes Women in Medicine, ScienceThe Northwestern Medical Women Faculty Organization sponsored its 2002 Distinguished Women in Medicine and Science lecture on April 5. Christina Enroth-Cugell, MD, PhD, Northwestern professor emeritus of biomedical engineering and of neurobiology and physiology, spoke on “What Old Folks See in a Young Person’s World.” Pioneering research on the visual pathways of the retina, Dr. Enroth-Cugell is widely known for her work on visual adaptation and a classic series of experiments in which she and collaborator John Robson established for the first time the existence of two separate kinds of functionally different cells…
March 8, 2002Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Bonow is President-Elect of American Heart AssociationCHICAGO— Robert O. Bonow, M.D., Max and Lilly Goldberg Professor of Cardiology at The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, has been named president-elect of the American Heart Association. Bonow will become the AHA president when the group’s 2002-03 officers are installed in June.Bonow, who is chief of cardiology at the Feinberg School and at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and president of the AHA’s metropolitan Chicago board of directors, is internationally recognized for his research and teaching in coronary artery disease, valvular…
In Memoriam (David Earle, Olga Haring, Roy Patterson, Herbert Sommers)David P. Earle, MD, professor emeritus and former chair of medicine at the medical school, died January 31 in his Wilmette, Illinois, home. He was 91. Dr. Earle earned his MD degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1937 and completed residency training at New York Hospital. He was on the medical staff there and the faculty at New York University before coming to Northwestern in 1954. He served as department chair from 1965â73 and was instrumental in founding the nephrology division at Northwestern. His research included a…
Exchange Program Takes Students to Mexico CityFour medical students returned to school this fall with a renewed appreciation for the medical profession thanks to a program called Medicine and Public Health in Mexico that took them to Mexico City this summer for a six-week experience in international health. Joined by several Northwestern University undergraduates, the students were hosted by the capital city’s Universidad Panamericana, a small, private institution with its own medical school and, according to program organizer Dévora Grynspan, PhD, assistant dean of international and area studies in the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences,…
March 21, 2002Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.eduFree Conference Focuses on Human Stem Cell Research EVANSTON, ILL.— Human embryonic stem cells can potentially develop into every tissue of the body, but adult stem cells are thought to be less flexible and more focused. Should stem cells of either kind be used in research to improve human health? Who decides? What are the limitations of stem cells? What ethical and legal questions surround stem cell research? Could the use of stem cells make it possible to clone humans? A distinguished panel of experts will answer these questions in plain…
Alumni to be Treated to Old and New During Annual ReunionAlumni Weekend will be April 19â20 for MD and GME alumni of the medical school. Of special interest are a CME session on “Stem Cells and Genes in the Practice of Medicine” moderated by Rex L. Chisholm, PhD, director of the Center for Genetic Medicine, and a state-of-the-school presentation by Jeffrey C. Miller, senior executive associate dean and chief operating officer. Alumni are scheduled to hear an information access update from the Galter Library staff and tour the minimally invasive surgery skills laboratory and Clinical Education and Evaluation Center as…
School Renamed to Recognize Generosity of Feinberg Foundation Northwestern University President Henry S. Bienen announced February 13 that the medical school would be renamed The Feinberg School of Medicine in recognition of gifts totaling more than $103 million from the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundation. The total includes a new $75 million gift for medical education and research and previous gifts of $17 million and $10 million that led to the creation of the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute in 1987 and Frances Evelyn Feinberg Clinical Neuroscience Research Institute in 1996. The $75 million gift is the largest…
VA Lakeside’s Inpatient Unit to be ClosedThe Department of Veterans Affairs announced on February 8 that inpatient care at VA Chicago Health Care System—Lakeside Division would be phased out, pending congressional approval. Chicago-area veterans requiring inpatient care would go to VA Chicago’s West Side Division at 820 South Damen Avenue. The VA plans to find a private partner to lease the Lakeside facility and construct an outpatient facility there. Part of a national effort to consolidate VA facilities, the Lakeside decision came despite an offer of rent-free space in Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Prentice Pavilion. Says Dean Lewis Landsberg, MD, “The…