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Jeffrey Glassroth Named Interim Dean of the Medical School Jeffrey Glassroth, MD, the president and CEO of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and vice dean of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a professor of medicine, has been named interim dean of Feinberg, effective January 1, 2011. October 29, 2010 – Today, Jeffrey Glassroth,[…]

Combined MD, Masters of Public Health Degree Offers Students a Diverse Medical Education Focused on Public Health, Policy For medical students with a special interest in public health issues and policy, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine offers the combined Doctor of Medicine/Master of Public Health (MD/MPH) degree. MD/MPH students are taught alongside health care[…]

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is among the U.S. medical schools and universities involved in an initiative to invest $130 million over five years to transform African medical education and dramatically increase the number of health workers. Through the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI), faculty at the Center for Global Health at Feinberg will[…]

For nearly 40 years a class of drugs known as beta blockers have been proven to increase patients’ survival prospects following a heart attack by decreasing the cardiac workload and oxygen demand on the heart. In a breakthrough study released in the American Heart Journal, Northwestern Medicine cardiologist Jeffrey J. Goldberger found the majority of[…]

Northwestern Medicine researchers have launched a clinical trial testing a new combination of treadmill exercise and drug regimen to see if the two together improve the walking ability of people with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) more than either therapy individually. Scientists are studying if a combination of walking and the medication together increase the production[…]

Remembering Professor Emeritus and Alumnus Howard S. Traisman, MD Howard S. Traisman, MD, professor emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics, passed away on October 12. Traisman will be remembered as a renowned pediatrician, a trusted mentor, and an exemplary alumnus. Howard S. Traisman, MD ’47, GME ’51, BSM ’46, BS ’43, professor emeritus in the[…]

IGP Offers Students Flexible Path for Pursuing Scientific Interests While Earning PhD The Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences (IGP) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has trained graduate students in both basic science and clinical research for twenty years. The IGP offers students an integrated, interdepartmental PhD education in ten distinct areas[…]

Surprising Stress for Caregivers The biggest cause of stress for people who care for loved ones after a stroke may not be worrying about the affected family member. Rather, surprising new research from Northwestern Medicine shows that a lack of understanding and help from friends and relatives causes the most stress and the greatest threat[…]

New Drug Offers Big Relief for Osteoarthritis Pain A phase II clinical trial of the first new type of drug for musculoskeletal pain since aspirin shows that it significantly reduces knee pain in osteoarthritis, the most common osteoarthritis pain, according to new research from Northwestern Medicine. However, phase III trials of that drug, tanezumab, have[…]

Medical Faculty Council Announces 2010 Mentors of the Year The Feinberg Medical Faculty Council honored Kiang Liu, PhD, professor and associate chair of research for the Department of Preventive Medicine (LEFT), and Stanford T. Shulman, MD, Virginia H. Rogers Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, with 2010 Mentor of the Year awards. The Northwestern University Feinberg[…]