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School Year Off to Momentous Start Dr. Glassroth welcomes the Class of 2012 to the Feinberg School. Founders’ Day did double duty this year. Not only did the August 29 event officially open the Feinberg School’s academic year by welcoming the Class of 2012, but it also launched the beginning of what will be a[…]

Faculty, Staff Donations Make Back to School Better Tiffany Barnes from the Department of Family Medicine adds her donation to the overflowing collection box. In total, six boxes of school supplies as well as monetary contributions were transported to Heartland Alliance for distribution. Piles of paper, a slew of scissors, heaps of highlighters, and other[…]

Jacob Iasha Sznajder, MD Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Asthma and Related DisordersChief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine What are your research interests? My research focuses on lung physiology. In particular, I am interested in exploring the mediators and mechanisms of acute lung injury, regulation of Na,K-ATPase in the alveolar epithelium, signal transduction[…]

Dr. Veis’ Research FundingNears Half Century Mark Arthur Vies, PhD, professor emeritus of cell and molecular biology, enjoys the distinction of holding the longest-standing grant awarded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Not only has his research in the study of how bones and teeth form and their importance to musculoskeletal development[…]

Small Animal MRI Scanner Will Enhance Research Efforts Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine will have enhanced imaging capabilities thanks to a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health High End Instrumentation (HEI) grant program. The funding will be used to purchase a 7T Bruker ClinScan MRI scanner, which provides high-resolution in[…]

Student Visionaries Create Nonprofit Organization Several globally minded medical students believe that one good model of care deserves another one just like it, especially when it comes to curing blindness in developing countries. Forming the nonprofit organization CatarACT, these students from Northwestern intend to combat the vision-robbing ravages of untreated cataracts by borrowing a solution[…]

New Chief of Surgical Oncology Announced David M. Mahvi, MD, has joined Northwestern as chief of surgical oncology and professor of surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, as well as a member of the Robert H. Lure Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. Dr. Mahvi is on the medical staff of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.[…]

Students Serve the Community through Heartland Alliance The skills and privileges physicians acquire as they learn and practice medicine put them in a unique position in society. They are allowed to hear the most intimate details of the lives of people they may have just met. Physicians are welcomed around the world when they volunteer[…]

The Business of Medicine Pictured here with former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, MD, are OpenMic.Health team members (back row,from left) Sam Haywood (FSM), Andrew Ambrosy (FSM), John Kubasiak (FSM), Peter Siu (Kellogg), Michael Gibbs (FSM), (front row, from left) Yaw Nyame (FSM), and Eduardo Montes (Kellogg). Photo © Nathan Mandell Reading The Wall[…]

Those attending the 25-year service anniversary reception and dinner at the Wyndham Chicago Hotel included (front row (from left), Drs. Takashi Nishida, Ramona I. Slupik, Alan F. Friedman, Joseph L. Morello, Frank J. Weschler, Hector J. Gomez, Steven P. Swiryn, and Marilynn C. Frederiksen, and Christine V. Malwitz; (middle row, from left) Drs. Janet S.[…]

Students Receive Research Funding to Advance Careers as Physician-Scientists Two Feinberg School medical students have received funding for one year of full-time biomedical research from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support their early careers as physician-scientists. Second-year student Carson Lam and third-year student Sarina Pasricha will each receive a $27,000 stipend, a $5,500[…]

Teen Philanthropist Supports Research to Help Others Until recently, Noah Perkins had never heard of Dr. Jack Kessler. Nor was he familiar with Dr. Kessler’s pioneering work with stem cells or spinal cord injuries. That changed when he saw Terra Incognita, a documentary film that features Dr. Kessler and his daughter, Allison, as part of[…]

$6.5 Million NIH Grant Funds New Approach to Infertility Research What causes a woman’s eggs to deteriorate in quality with age, and can that be reversed? How does the ovary choose an egg—out of a stash of roughly one million—to release for ovulation? And can the ovary be influenced to pick a “good” quality egg[…]

Dr. Garofalo Leads NIH-funded, Family-based HIV Prevention Study Is it time for HIV prevention programs for young men who have sex with men to involve families and parents—similar to approaches used for other adolescent/young adult populations? This is the question asked by a team of investigators at Children’s Memorial Hospital, Howard Brown Health Center, and[…]

FAQsFrequently Asked Questions General Faculty Students Residents Alumni Patients Dean Jameson’s letter to the Feinberg School of Medicine Community Dean Jameson’s letter to the Feinberg School of Medicine Community June 16, 2008 Dear Colleague: As a valued member of our medical school community, you are receiving this memo in advance of a public announcement that[…]