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Diverse Paths Highlighted for New Graduates Speaking to a crowd of more than 2,000 people at Northwestern’s 146th medical school Graduation Convocation, a newly degreed Suneel M. Udani, MD, of Naperville, Illinois, grinned broadly on the stage of Navy Pier’s Grand Ballroom, and said, “Congratulations to my fellow classmates, their families, and friends.” He paused,[…]

May 12, 2004 People More at Risk If Parents Had Heart Attack or Stroke CHICAGO— A study published in the May 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association provides the strongest evidence yet that cardiovascular disease in parents—particularly at an early age—is a major predictor of their children having a heart attack[…]

May 3, 2004 Contact: Pat Vaughan Tremmel at 847/491-4892 or atp-tremmel@northwestern.edu Warden to Talk About DNA Revolution CHICAGO— Rob Warden, executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, will speak May 12 and 13 about “DNA and Justice” in the Center for Genetic Medicine’s Silverstein lecture series. Warden will[…]

April 9, 2004 “NU Explores” Travels to Washington Feinberg School of medicine faculty members Rex L. Chisholm, PhD, and John A. Kessler, MD, continue their travels for “NU Explores” on May 12, when they and Mark A. Ratner, PhD, professor of chemistry, will present “Small is Big: Science That’s Changing the Quality of Your Life”[…]

April 26, 2004 Medical Alumni Honored During Reunion Weekend At the Reunion Ball on April 24, the closing event of the Feinberg School of Medicine’s annual Alumni Weekend, pediatric endocrinologist Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, MD (shown here with Dean Lewis Landsberg, MD), received this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award. She credited Northwestern for instilling in her a[…]

  In this year’s U.S. News & World Report rankings of research-oriented medical schools, Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has moved up one place from last year, from 21st to 20th, tying with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The criteria for ranking research-oriented schools are research funding (30 percent), student selectivity[…]

April 9, 2004 ENH Center Studies Genetics of Schizophrenia Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, a member of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, has established a new Center for Genetics in Psychiatry, headed by Pablo V. Gejman, MD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Gejman holds one of the[…]

April 12, 2004 Accepted Students Take a “Second Look” at the School Approximately 150 prospective students accepted to the Feinberg School’s incoming Class of 2008 will take a second look at the school as part of “Second Look Weekend.” The annual revisit weekend for accepted students begins with a welcome reception on Thursday evening, April[…]

April 8, 2004 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Stem Cells Used in Bone Marrow Research CHICAGO— Researchers at Northwestern University have devised a method to induce embryonic stem cells to develop into bone marrow and blood cells. Injecting the stem cells into the bone marrow cavity of mice whose bone[…]

April 8, 2004 Trauma Highly Prevalent Among Delinquents CHICAGO— Almost every boy and girl currently detained in a juvenile facility in the United States has experienced at least one major trauma, and a large proportion of these children have post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.[…]