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Alumni Weekend Slated for April 25-26 Nearly 400 Northwestern medical alumni and their guests will celebrate Alumni Weekend 2003, April 25–26, as well as two historic events: the 135th anniversary of the first meeting of the Medical Alumni Association and the medical school’s 100th alumni weekend. The annual reunion will feature informative lectures, campus and[…]

Dean’s Clinical Research Day Slated for May 8 The Feinberg School of Medicine will hold its first Dean’s Clinical Research Day on Thursday, May 8, from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. in Conference Room A of Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Feinberg Pavilion. Focusing on reproductive science, the program features Jean D. Wilson, MD, clinical professor of internal medicine[…]

March 25, 2003 Controlling Neurons May Ease Parkinson’s Disease CHICAGO— Blocking or eliminating a specific potassium channel in a small group of brain cells may improve or prevent the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, a debilitating and progressive neurodegenerative disease that afflicts more than 1 million people in the United States. In Parkinson’s disease, neurons that[…]

Healthy Eating Depends on Personal Responsibility Jack Sprat could eat no fat, and it appears Americans can eat no lean or, at least, very little. A growing and heavy body of evidence shows the country as a whole tipping the scales into obesity. “The state of the nation is one of excessive intake of calories[…]

In Memoriam (Martin Brandfonbrener, Lee Gladstone, William Sullivan) Martin Brandfonbrener, MD, professor emeritius of medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, died on February 21 in Chicago at age 75. Growing up in New York and showing brilliance in science, Dr. Brandfonbrener graduated from Stuyvesant High School and entered New York University at age 16.[…]

Linda Van Horn Named Editor-in-Chief of Nutrition Journal This March the American Dietetic Association (ADA) celebrates 30 years of promoting healthy eating via its National Nutrition Month®, an annual nutrition education and information campaign. So it seems fitting that the organization announced on March 10 the appointment of Linda V. Van Horn, PhD, RD, a[…]

Medical Students Find Their Matches Fourth-year medical students at the Feinberg School of Medicine learned on March 20 what residency programs they will enter this summer and celebrated the news with their classmates and families. The Northwestern students were part of 14,332 United States medical school seniors who participated in the annual Match Day, sponsored[…]

Research Grant Honors Ann Landers Seema Singhal, MD, professor of medicine at the Feinberg School, has received a two-year, $200,000 research award to investigate the genetic abnormalities associated with multiple myeloma. The Ann Landers Research Fund Award was presented to Dr. Singhal at a dinner in Chicago on March 4 by the Multiple Myeloma Research[…]

Sherman Elias Appointed Chair of Ob-Gyn Sherman Elias, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Feinberg School effective June 1. Currently head of ob-gyn at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Elias holds a secondary appointment as professor in UIC’s Department of Molecular Genetics and specializes in[…]

Family Medicine Grant Aids Underserved The nearly 130,000 underinsured residents and Medicaid recipients in Lake County, Illinois, will benefit from a $200,000 grant to the Department of Family Medicine at the Feinberg School and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH), working in conjunction with the Lake County Health Department. By enabling family medicine residents to complete rotations[…]