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Physical Therapy Students Celebrate Graduation
Part of the longest continually accredited physical therapy school in the nation, 74 Feinberg PT students graduated on Saturday, April 20, after three years of classroom and clinical instruction.
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Narahashi, Founding Father of Modern Pharmacology, Remembered for Six Decades of Research
Colleagues remember Toshio Narahashi, PhD, John Evans Professor of Pharmacology, for his contributions to the field and his dedication to mentoring.
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Haiti Cholera Strain Evolves
The cholera strain that transferred to Haiti in 2010 has multiple toxin gene mutations that may account for the severity of disease and is evolving to be more like an 1800s version of cholera, reports a new Northwestern Medicine® study.
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Shedding New Light on Brain Circuit Involved in Parkinson’s
Postdoctoral fellow Kelly Glajch, PhD’12, received a prestigious fellowship from the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation to support the study of neuron signaling changes in the striatum region of the brain, an area associated with the disease.
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Education, Adherence to Medical Regimen Increase Survival Following Heart Transplant
A new Northwestern Medicine® study has shown that survival following heart transplantation is associated with several patient characteristics, including education, higher social and economic satisfaction, and adherence with the medical regimen.
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Accepted Students Take a Second Look at Feinberg
The Office of Admissions at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine hosted the annual Second Look event on April 11-12, giving prospective medical students an opportunity to learn more about Feinberg before making a final decision on where to go to medical school.
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Genes Reveal Patients Who Will Benefit from Scleroderma Drug
Systemic sclerosis, also known as scleroderma, is a rare autoimmune connective tissue disorder that’s difficult to treat. However, thanks to new research at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, doctors may be able to treat some patients more effectively.
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Feinberg, RIC Announce Expanded Collaboration
A new agreement with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) means the RIC will provide the clinical venue for Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences faculty, expand clinical education experiences for students, create a joint Northwestern-RIC physical therapy residency program, and allow Feinberg and RIC researchers the ability to better pursue investigative questions…
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Remembering Raisbeck, Alumnus and Orthopaedic Surgeon
Clifford Clinton Raisbeck Jr, MD’53, GME’61, orthopaedic surgeon and strong supporter of the medical school, died on March 29 from complications of pneumonia. He was 84.
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New Curriculum Gives Opportunity for Early Clinical Experience
First-year medical students reinforced concepts from their cardiopulmonary, respiratory, and renal units through a week of hands-on simulation events known as the Synthesis and Application Module. This component of the new curriculum focuses on integrating more clinical experiences early on and challenges students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom.
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Physician Assistant Program Receives Continuing Accreditation
Graduating its first class in 2012, Feinberg’s Physician Assistant Program has moved from provisional to continuing accreditation, receiving a rating of 100 percent compliant from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant.
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Research Day 2013 Boasts Record Number of Participants
The Ninth Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day, held on Thursday, April 4, had a record breaking 318 scientific posters, representing all 26 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine departments.
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Heart Failure Risk Similar for Blacks, Whites
Lifetime risk for heart failure is similar for blacks and whites and higher than expected for both groups, according to a new Northwestern Medicine® study.
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Hospitals Measuring Up for Medicare Reimbursement
A new study gives an early look at how hospitals are measuring up under the new, mandatory Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program that went into effect October 2012. Hospitals receive financial rewards or penalties according to achievement or improvement on several publicly reported quality measures.
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Seifert Presented Second Consecutive MERIT Award
Hank Seifert, PhD, has received a second-consecutive Method to Extend Research in Time Award, an extremely rare honor for NIH-funded scientists.
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Viral Protein Hijacks Cellular Machinery to Invade Nervous System
Northwestern Medicine® scientists have identified a component of the herpesvirus that “hijacks” machinery inside human cells, allowing the virus to rapidly and successfully invade the nervous system upon initial exposure.
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Genome Collaboration Leads to Prostate Cancer Finding
Published in Nature Genetics, new research has helped outline the benefits of whole genome sequencing in validating the genes associated with a person’s susceptibility to prostate cancer.
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Fundraising Efforts Send Ultrasound to Largest Hospital in Uganda
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine student organization Unite for Uganda raised about $5,000 to ship an ultrasound machine to Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda.
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Northwestern Partners in Consortium to Develop New Ways to Treat Macular Degeneration
Northwestern University scientists are part of a multi-institution interdisciplinary consortium that has been awarded a $6.2 million grant over five years from the National Eye Institute to develop new treatments for exudative age-related macular degeneration.
