Category: Education News
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Feinberg Students on the Path to Becoming Military Physicians
For three graduates of Feinberg’s Class of 2015, this year’s commencement marked both the completion of their medical degrees, and the beginning of their careers as physicians in the United States armed forces.
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Trainees Broaden Clinical Research Skills
Enrollees in Feinberg’s Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) program developed research projects including a yoga intervention for patients with Parkinson’s disease and a cardiovascular risk assessment for cholesterol guidelines.
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Alumni Dreams Come True as Global Health Nonprofit Gains Momentum
Six Feinberg medical school students dreamt of starting their own global health nonprofit, which came to fruition as the Life is Great (LIG) Global Foundation.
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Northwestern Start-up Awarded I-Corps Grant
A team of Northwestern University students and faculty launched a start-up, Opticent Health, which recently received an award from the National Science Foundation to bring their technology innovation to the market.
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Medical Women’s Association Hosts Pioneering Alumna
Patricia Conard, ’53 MD, gave advice to medical students and talked about her six decades of experience as a woman in medicine during a lunch hosted by Feinberg’s American Medical Women’s Association.
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Class of 2015 Celebrates Commencement
Members of the Class of 2015, faculty, friends and family met at Chicago’s Navy Pier Grand Ballroom on May 18 to celebrate medical school commencement.
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Student and Faculty Achievement Recognized at Honors Day
Students and faculty were recognized for their accomplishments and teaching at the Third Annual Honors Day celebration.
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Student Awarded AOA Fellowship for Research on Inflammation
Prarthana Dalal, a first-year medical student, received a 2015 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society, to support her project studying a protein involved in inflammation.
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Feinberg Student Awarded Doris Duke Fellowship
Claudia Leung, a third-year medical student, was recently awarded the Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship to pursue a clinical research project in Kenya to study the causes of heart failure among East Africans.
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Barry Coller, MD, to Speak at 2015 Commencement
Barry Coller, MD, vice president for medical affairs and David Rockefeller Professor at Rockefeller University, will speak at the medical school’s commencement on Monday, May 18.
