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Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will speak at this year’s medical school commencement ceremony.

Jonathan Chou, a third-year medical student, received a $30,000 grant from Research to Prevent Blindness that will enable him to take a year off from medical school to study the deterioration of eyesight in diabetics.

First- and second-year students put on the annual sketch comedy show In Vivo this past weekend. The money raised from ticket sales benefited Fresh Moves Mobile Produce Market, a nonprofit that serves neighborhoods with little access to fresh food.

This week more than 25 medical and physician assistant students from across Chicago will complete training on how to teach hands-only CPR and use an AED through a new CCARES program. The ultimate goal of the program is to build community awareness of these lifesaving skills.

Third-year MD/PhD student Pat Lawlor discusses why he is pursuing a career as a physician scientist, his role as MSTP student body president, and the beginnings of his graduate research.