Category: Campus News
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Departments Rank High in List of NIH Funding
Eight departments at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine rank in the top 10 in their discipline in a list of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to medical schools, with an additional three departments in the top 20.
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Fourth Annual Nano Boot Camp Gives Clinicians Insight on New Advances in Nanotechnology
The fourth annual Nano Boot Camp for Clinicians provided an overview on current research in the field.
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Student Sketch Comedy Show Honors a Former Classmate
The medical school’s 36th annual student sketch comedy show In Vivo parodied the characters and plot of the film Freaky Friday with “Freaky Feinberg,” benefitting the Stay Out of the Sun Foundation in honor of their former classmate Claire Richards.
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AAMC President Discusses Challenges Facing Academic Medicine
Darrell Kirch, MD, president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges addressed staff and faculty members on the issues facing academic medical centers.
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Lectures on Campus: How Diverse Themes Can Improve Patient Care
Students and faculty learned how practicing mindfulness, incorporating patient spirituality and advocating for scientific research in public policy can improve patient care – and their own wellbeing as healthcare providers – during three special lecture events.
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Sister to the North
A new Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital will raise the bar by bringing academic medicine to Chicago’s suburbs.
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Answering Questions about Ebola
Sanjeev Malik, MD, ’07 GME, assistant professor in Emergency Medicine answers questions about emergency protocols and resources to help keep healthcare workers, Feinberg students and members of the public safe and informed about the Ebola outbreak.
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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.
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Remembering Martha Pitel, Former Chair of Nursing
An October 21 memorial will be held in honor of Martha Pitel, PhD, RN, professor emerita and former chair of nursing education at Northwestern University.
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Cella Honored for Career Focusing on Patient Voices
David Cella, PhD, chair of Medical Social Sciences, received the prestigious John Ware and Alvin Tarlov Career Achievement Prize for his contributions in the field of patient-reported outcome measures.
