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Northwestern Welcomes New Residents and Fellows At the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, 250 new residents were welcomed during orientation sessions held at the member hospitals. On June 16, 28 residents began programs (pediatrics, pediatric neurology, and child and adolescent psychiatry) at Children’s Memorial Hospital (CMH), located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.[…]

Five Departments Make NIH Top 20 List Five departments at the Feinberg School have been ranked among the top 20 by the National Institutes of Health for total NIH funding in 2002. The Department of Urology, chaired by Anthony J. Schaeffer, MD, Herman L. Kretschmer Professor of Urology, was ranked third among U.S. urology departments,[…]

June 11, 2003 ‘Lost’ Protein Key To Prostate Treatment? CHICAGO— Northwestern University researchers have found that a protein normally made in the body is critical for normal prostate growth regulation because mice that lack this protein develop an enlarged prostate. The excessive prostate growth in these animals resembles the human disease benign prostatic hyperplasia. In[…]

Feinberg School Leads Research Funding at NU In 2002 the Feinberg School of Medicine received $158,026,695 in research awards, more than any other Northwestern school. Medical school awards accounted for more than 48 percent of overall awards to the University, which totaled $324,507,137. This is the first time in University history that research volume has[…]

June 12, 2003 Contact: Pat Vaughan Tremmel at 847/491-4892 or atp-tremmel@northwestern.edu Study on Differences in Female, Male Sexuality EVANSTON, ILL.— Three decades of research on men’s sexual arousal show patterns that clearly track sexual orientation—gay men overwhelmingly become sexually aroused by images of men and heterosexual men by images of women. In other words, men’s[…]

VA Chicago Moves Inpatient Care to West Side Division On August 7all inpatient care at the VA Chicago Health Care System—Lakeside Division, located on Northwestern University’s Chicago campus, will move to the VA West Side Division, located on Chicago’s Near West Side. The Department of Veterans Affairs is carrying out its Capital Asset Realignment for[…]

Northwestern Remembers Reuben Feinberg “A straight-talking, unassuming, and generous man….who enjoyed life….who was committed to improving health care for the people of Chicago….who gave Northwestern a big boost.” These were among the many attributes describing Reuben Feinberg heard by friends, colleagues, and family members when they gathered May 19 in Thorne Auditorium on Northwestern University’s[…]

May 5, 2003 Foundation Gift Funds Virology Research Center CHICAGO— The Drucker Family Foundation has made a $5 million gift to Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine through the Midwest AIDS Foundation/Engle Fund to create the Fred and Norman A. Drucker Virology Research Laboratories at the medical school. The labs will occupy the entire 12th[…]

Graduates Urged to Be High Tech and High Touch Surrounded by family members and friends, 164 medical students celebrated their official entry into the medical profession at the Feinberg School’s 145th Graduation Convocation, held May 23 at Navy Pier’s Grand Ballroom. The event featured guest speaker Jordan J. Cohen, MD, president of the Association of[…]

Schweitzer Fellows Help the Underserved Just as the program’s namesake Dr. Albert Schweitzer helped needy people in Africa, the 28 health care students participating in the 2003–04 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program will help the underserved as they work with agencies providing health care to fragile populations. Among next year’s Schweitzer fellows are first-year Northwestern[…]