Search results for: “dermatology”
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Research Rankings Show Improvement
Research Rankings Show ImprovementThree Feinberg School of Medicine departments—urology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and cell and molecular biology—are ranked in the top 10 in terms of National Institutes of Health funding for fiscal year 2004 among their peers in the 127 medical schools across the country. Urology ranks 2nd (same as last year), physical medicine[…]
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Feinberg School Seniors Meet Their Matches
Feinberg School Seniors Meet Their Matches This year’s Match Day coincided with St. Patrick’s Day, so fourth-year students at the Feinberg School of Medicine had double the reason to celebrate. Match Day is the culmination of the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), a process that uses a computer algorithm to match the preferences of applicants[…]
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Keeping Summer Fun Safe
July 9, 2004 Keeping Summer Fun Safe Summer, with its warmer temperatures and sunny skies, entices everyone to get moving and enjoy the outdoors. While boosting activity levels can increase summer fun, the season presents hazards to personal health and safety if one does not exercise caution. “Active people are generally more susceptible to a[…]
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Amy Paller Named Dermatology Chair
Amy Paller Named Dermatology Chair Amy S. Paller, MD, a Northwestern faculty member since 1988, has been named chair of the Department of Dermatology at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), effective February 10. In a joint announcement, Lewis Landsberg, MD, Feinberg School dean and vice president for medical affairs, and[…]
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Feinberg School Well Represented Among Chicago’s “Top Docs”
Of the 350 physicians selected as “Top Doctors” by Chicago magazine, one- third are on faculty at the Feinberg School of Medicine. The magazine’s January 2004 issue identifies physicians in 58 specialties who garnered recognition through a survey conducted by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. Castle Connolly contacted thousands of health care professionals in metropolitan Chicago,[…]
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Five Departments Make NIH Top 20 List
Five Departments Make NIH Top 20 List Five departments at the Feinberg School have been ranked among the top 20 by the National Institutes of Health for total NIH funding in 2002. The Department of Urology, chaired by Anthony J. Schaeffer, MD, Herman L. Kretschmer Professor of Urology, was ranked third among U.S. urology departments,[…]
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Honors & Appointments
A list of honors, awards, and faculty appointments from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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In Memoriam (Jane Eckenhoff, Paul Lazar, Susan Orden)
In Memoriam (Jane Eckenhoff, Paul Lazar, Susan Orden) Jane Mackey Eckenhoff, who served as secretary of the Alumni Office at Northwestern’s medical school from 1970–84, died October 12 at home in LaPorte, Indiana, of lung cancer. She was 72. Raised in South Bend, Indiana, Jane Mackey came to Chicago in the late 1950s and worked[…]
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Honors & Appointments
A list of honors, awards, and faculty appointments from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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University Receives Grant to Study Oral Cancer
June 20, 2002 University Receives Grant to Study Oral Cancer CHICAGO— Oral cancer currently accounts for almost 6 percent of all malignancies, and its incidence is increasing worldwide. At least 90 percent of oral cancers are squamous cell carcinomas that originate from the oral epithelium, a thin lining of cells that covers tissues in the[…]
