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  • New Approaches for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction with Sanjiv Shah, MD

    New Approaches for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction with Sanjiv Shah, MD

    Nearly half of all patients with heart failure have preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF, yet there is much that is unknown about HFpEF and how to best prevent it and treat it. Northwestern Medicine cardiologist, Sanjiv Shah, ’00 MD, leads the world’s first clinical program dedicated to the study of heart failure with HFpEF. He…

  • Music-Based Medical Interventions with Borna Bonakdarpour, MD

    Music-Based Medical Interventions with Borna Bonakdarpour, MD

    Music-based medical interventions can have remarkable therapeutic benefits for patients diagnosed with cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and aphasia. Neurologist Borna Bonakdarpour, MD, explains how he is using and studying these clinical interventions through the new Northwestern Music and Medicine Program.

  • Life-Changing Gene Therapy for Beta-Thalassemia Patients with Jennifer Schneiderman, MD

    Life-Changing Gene Therapy for Beta-Thalassemia Patients with Jennifer Schneiderman, MD

    A novel gene therapy promoted transfusion independence in more than 90 percent of adult and pediatric patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia. Study co-author Jennifer Schneiderman, MD, discusses results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

  • Pet Dogs Advance Glioblastoma Research with Amy Heimberger, MD

    Pet Dogs Advance Glioblastoma Research with Amy Heimberger, MD

    Man’s best friend is helping scientists find new treatments for brain tumors. Amy Heimberger, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon with extensive training and experience in the field of immunology. She is part of a promising new study in canine glioblastoma that could lead to more effective human glioblastoma clinical trials.

  • Advancing Mental Health Research, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern with Sachin Patel, MD, PhD

    Advancing Mental Health Research, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern with Sachin Patel, MD, PhD

    Sachin Patel, MD, PhD, is the new chair and Lizzie Gilman Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Feinberg and psychiatrist-in-chief at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Norman and Ida Stone Institute of Psychiatry. In this episode, he talks about the current mental health crisis in this country, his research and vision for the department.

  • Supporting Frontline Gun Violence Workers with Judith Moskowitz, PhD

    Supporting Frontline Gun Violence Workers with Judith Moskowitz, PhD

    Judith Moskowitz, a social psychologist and professor of Medical Social Sciences at Feinberg, talks about how her NIH-funded research and intervention programs will be used to address stress and burnout in Chicago’s front-line violence prevention workers.

  • Lewy Body Dementias and the Immune System with David Gate, PhD

    Lewy Body Dementias and the Immune System with David Gate, PhD

    David Gate, PhD, discusses his study on the detrimental role the immune system plays in Lewy body dementias. This disease encompasses two disorders: Parkinson’s disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. Actor Robin Williams famously passed away with dementia with Lewy bodies. NBA coach Jerry Sloan died of dementia with Lewy bodies as well. Gate’s…

  • Declining Heart Health in Most Pregnant Women with Sadiya Khan, MD, and Natalie Cameron, MD

    Declining Heart Health in Most Pregnant Women with Sadiya Khan, MD, and Natalie Cameron, MD

    Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. According to a new Northwestern Medicine study published in the journal Circulation, about sixty percent of pregnant women in the U.S. have poor heart health. Study authors Sadiya Khan, MD, and Natalie Cameron, MD, explain the results of the study and what needs…

  • Experimental Strategies in Organ Transplantation with Satish Nadig, MD, PhD

    Experimental Strategies in Organ Transplantation with Satish Nadig, MD, PhD

    In response to the first successful animal heart transplant into a human patient, internationally renowned transplant surgeon Satish Nadig, MD, PhD, reviews some of the scientific developments that have culminated in this moment and stresses the ongoing need for other experimental strategies. Nadig is also the new director of Feinberg’s Comprehensive Transplant Center. 

  • Leading Family & Community Medicine at Northwestern with Deborah Smith Clements, MD

    Leading Family & Community Medicine at Northwestern with Deborah Smith Clements, MD

    Since coming to Northwestern in 2013, Deborah Smith Clements, MD, chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine, has established three thriving family medicine residency programs and has been an advocate for improving the residency match process, health policy and social justice. She talks about her work, leading her department through COVID-19 and her…