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Landsberg Awarded Tripartite Faculty Prize
Lewis Landsberg, MD, director of the Northwestern University Comprehensive Center on Obesity, was awarded the 2012 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education during a ceremony on June 26.
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Wisner Joining Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as Asher Professor
Katherine Wisner, MD, MS, an expert in the identification, characterization, and treatment of mood disorders in women, and a pioneer in psychiatric disorders associated with childbirth, is joining Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on July 1 as the Asher Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
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DPT Students Earn Their White Coats
The Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences (PTHMS) celebrated its 6th annual Clinical Practice White Coat Ceremony on June 22. The event recognizes Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students as they transition from academic coursework to their first full-time clinical internship.
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Three Days of ‘Bootcamp’ Whips Interns into Shape
Seventy incoming interns woke up early to start “bootcamp” at 7 a.m. on June 20. But instead of pushups, jumping jacks, and crunches, this group from specialties such as internal medicine, anesthesiology, emergency medicine, and neurology, went through a rigorous three-day physician orientation.
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Viral Photo Offers Evidence of Sun’s Aging Effect on Skin
A part of April’s images in clinical medicine section of the New England Journal of Medicine, the image of a 69-year-old truck driver illustrates the damaging powers of UVA rays.
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Professor’s Book Explores State of Hypochondria in America
We have become a nation of hypochondriacs, says a Northwestern Medicine professor in a new book that explores our ratcheting anxiety about our bodies and health.
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Northwestern Imaging Joins Elite Club
Northwestern University Nikon Imaging Center-Cell Imaging Facility is the first American imaging center to become a member of the EuroBioImaging Consortium.
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Quaggin to Lead Cardiovascular Research Institute, Division of Nephrology
Susan Quaggin, MD, an international authority in the field of nephrology, will join Feinberg as the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine, and serve as director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and chief of the Division of Nephrology.
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Inaugural Award Honors Resident’s Commitment to Diversity
Marco Ellis, MD, chief resident of plastic surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, received an award June 8 for his dedication and service to diversity initiatives at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University.
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NUvention: Medical Innovation Provides Framework for Entrepreneurs
Since 2007, students in NUvention: Medical Innovation have pitched medical devices to company representatives after six months of coursework, research, and development. In that time, multiple groups from four Northwestern University schools have gone on to maintain a business profile outside of the classroom.
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Offspring of Older Fathers May Live Longer
A new Northwestern University study suggests that our bodies might increase investments to slow the pace of aging if our father and grandfather waited until they were older before having children.
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Study Finds Whites Sleep Better than Minorities
White people seem to sleep longer at night, have a better quality of sleep, and experience less daytime sleepiness than people identified as black, Hispanic, or Asian, according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine.
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Lloyd-Jones Enthusiastic About Future with NUCATS Institute
On June 15, Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, will become the new director of the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute and senior associate dean for clinical and translational research at the medical school.
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Physician Assistant Program Welcomes Incoming Class
Thirty physician assistant students in the Class of 2014 were initiated into the PA Program at a white coat ceremony on June 8 at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Feinberg Scientists Celebrate 1,000th Entry into Protein Data Bank
As part of a multi-institutional, international consortium, investigators at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine are using X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance to examine the atomic details of proteins from human pathogens.
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City Kids Much More Likely to Have Food Allergies than Rural Ones
New Northwestern study is the first to map children’s food allergies by geographical location in the United States.
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Northwestern Receives $10 Million Gift to Support Regenerative Nanomedicine Research
A $10 million gift from the Querrey Simpson Charitable Foundation will establish the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine. The center will operate within Northwestern’s Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine and support bold, risk-taking research ideas that could offer solutions to challenging human health problems as well as develop life-enhancing…
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Telephone Therapy Retains More Patients than Face-to-face Sessions
New Northwestern Medicine research shows patients who had therapy sessions provided over the phone were more likely to complete 18 weeks of treatment than those who had face-to-face sessions.
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Changing One Bad Habit has Domino Effect
A simple but profound new Northwestern Medicine study finds that simply changing one unhealthy habit can help you also eliminate others.
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Building a Culture of Innovation at Feinberg
Over the past year there has been an increase in the amount of inventions, licenses, and startups generated from the medical school, especially in the area of medical devices.
