Category: Campus News
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Health Equity Week Encourages Education and Action
Faculty, residents, trainees and students from Feinberg and beyond recently came together for Health Equity Week, a weeklong series of educational programming designed to expose the roots of healthcare inequities and actions to take to address them.
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Dirajlal-Fargo and Fant Named Co-Directors of Center for Global Pediatric Health
Northwestern University has announced the launch of the new Center for Global Pediatric Health, a collaboration between the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health and at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
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Weese-Mayer Honored with 2025 Stern Award
Debra E. Weese-Mayer, MD, the Beatrice Cummings Mayer Professor of Pediatric Autonomic Medicine at Feinberg and Chief of the Center for Autonomic Medicine in Pediatrics at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, has been awarded the 2025 Paula H. Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine.
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Cancer Survivorship Expert Named Chair of Pediatrics
Tara O. Henderson, MD, MPH, has been named the Founders’ Board Centennial Chair of Pediatrics, effective March 31.
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Watson Named Hastings Center Fellow
Katie Watson, JD, professor of Medical Education, Medical Social Sciences in the Division of Determinants of Health, and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been named a 2024 Hastings Center Fellow.
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Young Physician-Scientist Awards Honor Feinberg Pathologists
Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology in the Division of Molecular Pathology, and Waihay Wong, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology, have been named recipients of the 2025 Young Physician-Scientist Award.
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Infectious Disease Expert Jennifer Jao to Help Lead AIDS Clinical-Trials Network
Jennifer Jao, MD, MPH, a pediatric infectious disease expert, has been selected as co-chair of the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network, funded by the NIH.
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Libraries Empower Translational Science Hubs with Collaborative Resources, Expertise
A recent article published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science illustrates the valuable role libraries can play in supporting Translational Science Hubs as they highlight potential areas for collaboration.
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Research to Prevent Blindness Grant Supports Department of Ophthalmology
The Department of Ophthalmology has received a grant from Research to Prevent Blindness to support investigators advancing the field of ophthalmology and vision science.
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2024 Year in Review
Feinberg experienced a year of stellar growth and scientific achievement in 2024, from honors and awards to unprecedented research discoveries.
