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  • Honors & Appointments

    Honors & Appointments

    A list of honors, awards, and faculty appointments from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

  • Older People Needlessly Suffer Sleepless Nights

    January 3, 2007 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Older People Needlessly Suffer Sleepless Nights CHICAGO—The sleep problems of older people are often not addressed by their primary care physicians, even though treatment of those sleep disorders could improve their physical and mental[…]

  • In Memoriam (Cecile Kramer)

    In Memoriam (Cecile Kramer) Cecile E. Kramer, director of the Northwestern medical school library from 1975–91, died January 25 in Boca Raton, Florida, at age 80. She had been in declining health for the last year. Ms. Kramer came to Northwestern from Columbia University’s health sciences library. A native of New York City, she began[…]

  • Researcher to Freeze Women’s Ovaries in Effort to Preserve Fertility after Cancer Treatment

    November 28, 2006 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Researcher to Freeze Women’s Ovaries in Effort to Preserve Fertility after Cancer Treatment CHICAGO—The Center for Reproductive Research at Northwestern University is launching an experimental research program for young women with cancer who may[…]

  • Study Finds Many Patients Don’t Understand Their Prescription Medicine Labels

    November 29, 2006 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or at marla-paul@northwestern.edu Study Finds Many Patients Don’t Understand Their Prescription Medicine Labels CHICAGO—When Michael Wolf, PhD, paged though dusty, yellowing pharmacists’ logs from the 1890s at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, he found the following entry about a druggist’s encounter with a confused[…]

  • Jameson Named Dean of Feinberg School of Medicine

    November 15, 2006 Contact: Alan Cubbage at 847/491-4886 ora-cubbage@northwestern.edu Jameson Named Dean of the Feinberg School of Medicine CHICAGO—J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, has been named vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University effective July 1, 2007. His appointment was announced November 15 by University President[…]

  • Landsberg to Step Down

    Contact: Charles R. Loebbaka at 847/491-4887 or atc-loebbaka@northwestern.edu Landsberg to Step Down as Dean of Feinberg School of Medicine and Vice President For Medical Affairs at Northwestern CHICAGO—Lewis Landsberg, MD, has announced that he will step down as dean of the Feinberg School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Northwestern University effective[…]

  • New Center Bridges Disciplines to Take 21st Century Look at Health Disparities

    November 8, 2006 Contact: Pat Vaughan Tremmel at 847/491-4892 or atp-tremmel@northwestern.edu New Center Bridges Disciplines to Take 21st Century Look at Health Disparities A group of researchers gathered last summer (and gave blood samples) at the first annual Summer Biomarker Institute hosted by Cells to Society. The social scientist didn’t flinch when a fellow social[…]

  • Drug Treats ‘Water Intoxication’ Faster, More Effectively

    November 14, 2006 Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Drug Treats ‘Water Intoxication’ Faster, More Effectively CHICAGO—Results of the two largest studies on hyponatremia, SALT-1 and SALT-2, presented November 14 at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions in Chicago, found that the investigational drug tolvaptan treated hyponatremia—water intoxication—faster and more effectively than available[…]

  • Lecture Explores Health Disparities

    Lecture Explores Health Disparities Feinberg School alumnus Dr. Charles Modlin, a transplant surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, shares his insight on barriers to health care for minority populations. When a black man living in Harlem has less of a chance of reaching the age of 65 than a man in Bangladesh due to health status[…]