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Albrecht-Buehler Elected to European Academy
September 30, 2002 Albrecht-Buehler Elected to European Academy CHICAGO— Guenter Albrecht-Buehler, Robert Laughlin Rea Professor of Anatomy and professor of cell and molecular biology at The Feinberg School of Medicine, has been elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. Dr. Albrecht-Buehler was elected to the academy based on his “outstanding and lasting contribution[…]
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Northwestern Remembers Harold Visotsky
Northwestern Remembers Harold Visotsky Friends, colleagues, and family members gathered September 25 in Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Pritzker Auditorium to pay tribute to Harold M. Visotsky, MD, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern’s medical school for 25 years. Dr. Visotsky, who died June 16 at age 78, also served as director[…]
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Nocturnal Blood Pressure May Have Kidney Disease Link
September 18, 2002 Nocturnal Blood Pressure May Have Kidney Disease Link CHICAGO— Monitoring nighttime blood pressure is a simple, painless and noninvasive method of identifying patients with Type 1 diabetes who are at increased risk for kidney disease, according to a study published in the Sept. 12 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine[…]
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“Fingerprints” for Biological Agents
September 9, 2002 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or at fellman@northwestern.edu “Fingerprints” for Biological Agents EVANSTON, ILL.— Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a powerful new method for detecting infectious diseases, including those associated with many bioterrorism and warfare threats such as anthrax, tularemia, smallpox, and HIV. A research team led by Chad A.[…]
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Visit the Access to Essential Medicines EXPO
Visit the Access to Essential Medicines EXPO Millions of people die each year from diseases for which medicines are too expensive, no longer effective, or out of production. Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is one of 22 cities that the Access to Essential Medicines EXPO will visit this year to highlight this dearth of[…]
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Entering Medical Students Don White Coats
Entering Medical Students Don White Coats This year’s entering medical students have arrived from both coasts and everywhere in-between and beyond. The Class of 2006 was officially welcomed to Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine at the Founders’ Day Convocation on August 30. The annual event marked the 144th opening of the medical school academic[…]
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Crohn’s Disease Therapies Tested
August 7, 2002 Crohn’s Disease Therapies Tested CHICAGO— Researchers at The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University are conducting clinical trials of several innovative approaches to the treatment of Crohn’s disease, including experimental drugs and a new swallowable video camera that produces high-quality images of the small intestine. In addition to aiding diagnosis by[…]
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Curriculum Expanded for Third- and Fourth-Year Medical Students
Curriculum Expanded for Third- and Fourth-Year Medical Students In July the undergraduate medical curriculum at Northwestern was modified to include a required interdisciplinary curriculum for third-year students and a required emergency medicine clerkship and fourth unit of the Patient, Physician & Society (PPS) course for fourth-year students. The interdisciplinary curriculum, directed by Douglas Reifler, MD,[…]
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Founders’ Day Convocation to Welcome New Medical Students
Founders’ Day Convocation to Welcome New Medical Students Members of the Class of 2006 at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine will become bona fide medical students as they don their white coats for the first time during the school’s Founders’ Day Convocation, slated for 2 p.m., Friday, August 30, 2002, in Thorne Auditorium, Arthur[…]
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Women With PCOS, Siblings Have Same Gene Defect
August 19, 2002 Women With PCOS, Siblings Have Same Gene Defect CHICAGO— Siblings of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have metabolic and hormonal abnormalities that are linked to the same gene defect that causes PCOS, a disorder associated with irregular periods, infertility, excessive body hair, and increased risk for diabetes. These new findings came[…]
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Physical Therapy Program Celebrates 75 Years
Physical Therapy Program Celebrates 75 Years The physical therapy (PT) education program at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is commemorating its 75th year with an alumni weekend on November 8–9, 2002. Several hundred alumni from all over the country are expected to attend the weekend, which will feature educational seminars, research posters, tours, and[…]
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Recruitment Publication Wins Design Award
Recruitment Publication Wins Design Award The primary recruitment publication to attract MD degree applicants to Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has won a 2002 American Graphic Design Award from Graphic Design: usa, a monthly journal distributed to more than 30,000 graphics industry leaders. The viewbook, which was published in May 2002, presents in a[…]
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Welfare Reform Impacts Parents’ Health Insurance
August 14, 2002 Contact: Charles R. Loebbaka at 847/491-4887 or at c-loebbaka@northwestern.edu Welfare Reform Impacts Parents’ Health Insurance EVANSTON, ILL— Loss of health insurance, especially for parents, appears to be an unintended consequence of welfare reform, according to new findings from the Illinois Families Study (IFS) at the Northwestern University Institute for Policy Research. “We[…]
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Break in HIV Treatment May Be Safe in Some Cases
July 10, 2002 Break in HIV Treatment May Be Safe in Some Cases BARCELONA— Interrupting anti-HIV treatment for an extended period and then re-initiating therapy might be safe in some patients, according to a study by Northwestern University infectious disease experts. Chad Achenbach, M.D., and co-investigators from The Feinberg School of Medicine presented data from[…]
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Memorial Service Held for Dr. David Hanson
Memorial Service Held for Dr. David Hanson David G. Hanson, MD, chair of otolaryngology—head and neck surgery at The Feinberg School of Medicine from 1989â2000, died July 10 of pancreatic cancer. He was 58. A memorial service was held Monday, July 15, at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, where he was a deacon. A native[…]
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The 1995 Heat Wave: Autopsy of Disaster
During Chicago’s 1995 heat wave, thousands of cars broke down in the street. Roads buckled. And power outages rendered air conditioners and lights useless. Few, however, remember the scale of human devastation during that catastrophic week, chronicled in a faculty member’s book.
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Researcher Calls for Less Toxic HIV Therapy
July 8, 2002 Researcher Calls for Less Toxic HIV Therapy BARCELONA— A Northwestern University researcher today called on HIV researchers and clinicians to develop more simplified and less toxic strategies to insure patient compliance and quality of life without sacrificing the potency of a protease inhibitor-containing regimen. The current standard of care for HIV includes[…]
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Patricia Spear Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Patricia Spear Elected to National Academy of Sciences Patricia G. Spear, PhD, Guy and Anne Youmans Professor of Microbiology—Immunology at the medical school, recently received what is considered to be one of the highest honors that can be awarded to an American scientist—election to the National Academy of Sciences. Nationwide, only 72 people this year[…]
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Pediatrics Faculty Featured in Public Television Series
Pediatrics Faculty Featured in Public Television Series The patients, families, and physicians of Children’s Memorial Hospital (CMH) in Chicago were recently featured in a six-week public television series called “Children’s Hospital” that began airing nationally in early July. Selected from among several children’s hospitals across the country, CMH is a member of the McGaw Medical[…]
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New Protease Inhibitor Has Added Benefits
July 6, 2002 New Protease Inhibitor Has Added Benefits BARCELONA— Atazanavir, a potent new HIV-fighting protease inhibitor, reduces high cholesterol and triglyceride levels that may be caused by other protease inhibitors, a Northwestern University researcher reported today at the XIV International AIDS Conference. Although protease inhibitors have been shown to be safe and effective in[…]
