Recent News

Campus Construction Moves Forward Within the last month constructon activity picked up on the Chicago campus. Barricades went up around the Wesley Pavilion, signaling the start of demolition that will be completed by year’s end to clear way for the new Prentice Women’s Hospital, slated for completion in 2007. The current Prentice Pavilion will continue[…]

Children’s Memorial Dedicates Middle School Health Center Thanks to Children’s Memorial Hospital, Arai Middle School in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood has become the first Chicago public middle school to house a school-based health center. Recently dedicated, the center provides a range of services, including mental health screening, counseling, and dental care. Cynthia J. Mears, DO, assistant[…]

April 12, 2002 Built-in ‘Failsafe’ Blocks Abnormal Growth of New Blood Vessels CHICAGO— Some inhibitors of angiogenesis prevent new blood vessel growth by triggering a built-in “failsafe” device in vessel-forming endothelial cells that marks them for apoptosis, or programmed cell death, according to a study from The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and[…]

NMH Honored for Patient Care Northwestern Memorial Hospital recently garnered accolades for excellence in patient care. Consumers’ Checkbook, a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit consumer education organization, named NMH fifth on the list of “America’s Top Hospitals” in a 2002 national survey. The hospital’s Best Patient Experience (BPE) pilot project received the annual Patient Service Excellence Award[…]

Reunion Weekend a Big Success Alumni Weekend attracted more than 435 alumni and their guests to the medical school April 19–20. Keen interest in Northwestern’s progress made a state-of-the-school address, presented by Senior Executive Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey C. Miller, a major attraction. Strongly attended, the update generated “lively discussion,” reported Assistant[…]

Students Recognized with Fellowships Four first-year medical students have been selected to participate in the 2002–03 Chicago Schweitzer Fellowship Program. They are Sara B. Busarow of Racine, Wisconsin; Benjamin Levi of Highland Park, Illinois; Carla A. Morgan, of Valparaiso, Indiana: and Anna E. Ringwelski, of Budd Lake, New Jersey. They and 23 colleagues from other[…]

Women Faculty Organization Promotes Women in Medicine, Science The Northwestern Medical Women Faculty Organization sponsored its 2002 Distinguished Women in Medicine and Science lecture on April 5. Christina Enroth-Cugell, MD, PhD, Northwestern professor emeritus of biomedical engineering and of neurobiology and physiology, spoke on “What Old Folks See in a Young Person’s World.” Pioneering research[…]

In Memoriam (David Earle, Olga Haring, Roy Patterson, Herbert Sommers) David P. Earle, MD, professor emeritus and former chair of medicine at the medical school, died January 31 in his Wilmette, Illinois, home. He was 91. Dr. Earle earned his MD degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1937 and completed residency[…]

Exchange Program Takes Students to Mexico City Four medical students returned to school this fall with a renewed appreciation for the medical profession thanks to a program called Medicine and Public Health in Mexico that took them to Mexico City this summer for a six-week experience in international health. Joined by several Northwestern University undergraduates,[…]

March 21, 2002 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Free Conference Focuses on Human Stem Cell Research EVANSTON, ILL.— Human embryonic stem cells can potentially develop into every tissue of the body, but adult stem cells are thought to be less flexible and more focused. Should stem cells of either kind be used[…]

Alumni to be Treated to Old and New During Annual Reunion Alumni Weekend will be April 19–20 for MD and GME alumni of the medical school. Of special interest are a CME session on “Stem Cells and Genes in the Practice of Medicine” moderated by Rex L. Chisholm, PhD, director of the Center for Genetic[…]

School Renamed to Recognize Generosity of Feinberg Foundation Northwestern University President Henry S. Bienen announced February 13 that the medical school would be renamed The Feinberg School of Medicine in recognition of gifts totaling more than $103 million from the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundation. The total includes a new $75 million gift for medical[…]

VA Lakeside’s Inpatient Unit to be Closed The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on February 8 that inpatient care at VA Chicago Health Care System—Lakeside Division would be phased out, pending congressional approval. Chicago-area veterans requiring inpatient care would go to VA Chicago’s West Side Division at 820 South Damen Avenue. The VA plans to[…]

February 8, 2002 Gene-Based Cancer Test Studied CHICAGO— Northwestern University Medical School is testing an investigational, noninvasive, gene-based screening method for colorectal cancer, the second-leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Around 57,000 Americans die of colon cancer each year. The test, called the PreGen-Plus, uses a technique similar to that described in[…]

February 11, 2002 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Scientists Develop Nanoarrays for Biological Detection EVANSTON— Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new detection technology on the nanometer scale that could lead to the next generation of proteomic arrays and new methods for diagnosing infectious diseases. Once optimized, the new nanotechnology holds[…]

February 19, 2002 Raloxifene After Tamoxifen Not Beneficial CHICAGO— Taking raloxifene after five years of tamoxifen therapy does not prevent the recurrence of breast cancer in postmenopausal women and may actually stimulate growth of endometrial tumors, according to a Northwestern University study. As described in an article in the Feb. 20 issue of the Journal[…]

February 26, 2002 Silverstein Gift Funds Genetic Research CHICAGO— The Herman M. and Bea L. Silverstein Foundation has made a $1 million gift to the Center for Genetic Medicine at The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. The gift will be used to support both education and research initiatives within the center as well[…]