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Feinberg Student Awarded National Scholarship for Outstanding Leadership in Healthcare Blayne Amir Sayed aims to address challenges faced by medically underserved communities Blayne Amir Sayed, an MD-PhD student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has been awarded one of five Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Herbert W. Nickens Scholarships. The scholarships are presented[…]

Spotlight: Doctor of Medicine Degree Sarah Connell, M4 Northwestern University has been training medical students for 150 years. The focal point of Feinberg School of Medicine undergraduate medical education programs is the one degree all students look forward to attaining: the Doctor of Medicine. The Feinberg integrated doctor of medicine curriculum is designed to prepare[…]

Former Professor, Edward Jozef Kaminski Passes Away Edward Jozef Kaminski, professor emeritus of pathology at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern University Dental School died peacefully October 6, after a long illness. He was 83 years old. Born in Torun (Thorn), Poland, he immigrated to Scotland after World War II, where he learned English,[…]

New Chemo Cocktail Blocks Breast Cancer Like a Fence Think of a protective fence that blocks the neighbor’s dog from charging into your backyard. The body, too, has fences – physical and biochemical barriers that keep cells in their place. When breast cancer spreads or metastasizes, it crashes through the body’s protective fences. The disease[…]

Northwestern Panel at NIH Workshop to Support Team Science, Influence Women’s Health Research Andrea Dunaif, MD, Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine, chief, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Molecular Medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Medicine. Members of the Team Science initiative at Northwestern University will moderate and serve on a panel[…]

Press Release Dosing Instructions for Kids on Tamiflu May Cause Serious Errors MEDIA CONTACT: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or marla-paul@northwestern.edu CHICAGO (September 23, 2009) — Parents giving their children Tamiflu for the H1N1 virus could potentially give the wrong dose because the prescription instructions on the label may not match the markings on the[…]

Former Lecturer, Dr. Leonard Fenninger Passes Away Dr. Leonard D. Fenninger, a former lecturer in the Department of Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, passed away on September 10 at the age of 91. Dr. Fenninger was active on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital staff from 1985 until his retirement in 1990. He received his[…]

Tissue Engineering Topic of 13th Annual Frances Feinberg Memorial Lecture Anthony Atala, MD More than 50 years after the first organ transplant (kidney) in Boston, the medical profession is still grappling with the same challenges – namely, organ rejection and the lack of availability, according to Anthony Atala, MD, during the Frances Feinberg Memorial Lecture,[…]

Dr. Markus Bredel Featured on CBS News Dr. Markus Bredel Markus Bredel, MD, director of the Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute research program and an assistant professor of neurological surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, was featured in a segment on CBS News regarding his work identifying the genes that make brain tumors flourish. Bredel’s[…]

Doctors Fear Asking Mentally Ill to Quit Smoking But These Big Smokers Likely to Benefit From Treatment Brian Hitsman, phD, assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine People with mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety are the heaviest smokers in the country, but their doctors are afraid to ask them[…]

Surprising Rate of Recurring Heart Attacks, Strokes Globally: U.S. Doesn’t Fare as Well as Japan and Australia Mark Alberts, M.D., professor of neurology at the Feinberg School of Medicine and director of the stroke program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital August 31, 2009 – Despite many medicines and other treatments for patients with vascular disease, a[…]

Professor, Student Identify Alternative DNA Structure for Shape-Shifting Pathogen Light micrograph of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and white cells from a person with gonorrhea August 21, 2009 – Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine have identified an alternative DNA structure existing within the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae that enables the pathogen to change its shape to avoid[…]

2009 Founders’ Day Address Stephen L. Ondra, MD, senior policy advisor for health affairs in the Department of Veterans Affairs, gave the keynote address at the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Founders’ Day Convocation. August 28, 2009 – Stephen L. Ondra, MD, senior policy advisor for health affairs in the Department of Veterans Affairs, gave the[…]

Traffic Jam in Brain Causes Schizophrenia Symptoms: Researchers Reveal How Schizophrenia Works in the Brain and Provide a Fresh Opportunity for Treatment There are fewer pathways (green strands on right) for information to flow between neurons in the brain of a mouse bred to have symptoms of schizophrenia compared to a normal mouse. Fewer pathways[…]

Dr. Woodruff Receives Mentoring Honor Dr. Woodruff Teresa K. Woodruff, PhD, was selected by members of the Medical Faculty Council as the 2009 Mentor of the Year. Dr. Woodruff is the director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research, the director of the Oncofertility Consortium and a professor in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department. She[…]